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Carpe Eruditio(Seize the learning)

Practical tools, techniques and ideas to

improve teaching and learning today

with Mike Fleetham

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

Harry Crews

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Jacques Barzun

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of

young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France


Learning Opportunities

To enrich the Foxborough Professional Learning Community:• Ourselves as learners, teachers and thinkers• Our professional learning relationships• Our wider responsibilities as a PLC To quickly and effectively improve communication skills for all:• Generic thinking skills and community building tools• A quality communicator: S&L, Reading, Writing: using language

well To plan for growth• Choose one or more themes to explore together this year• Identify short and mid-term needs


Learning Opportunities Summarised

To learn about learning together

To communicate well


9:00 Introduction and Welcome9:10 Is this Learning?10:30 Break11:00 Is this Communication?12:30 Lunch1:30 Is this a Professional Learning Community?2:30 Is this Possible?3:30 Close

Opportunity for questions & resources sharing


Is this Learning?


Comfort and Learning

Comfort(DVD/Book/Wine)

Danger

Growth Karaoke


Line up by…

your thinking style


Form groups…

• Of the same size (6s)

• With a mix of thinking style

Then find a new ‘home table’ to sit at


Allocate groups roles…

• Timekeeper manages about the time• Facilitator manages the group/task• Writer manages writing/representing• Reporter manages speaking for the group• Checker monitors the task/success criteria• Resourcer rushes off to get stuff with no

regard for health and safety


INDIVIDUALLY, please note down your response to the following 3 prompts:

1. Something you can do really well

2. How you learned to do this thing

3. How you know you can do it well


In turn, introduce yourselves to the other members of your group. Each person’s introduction to include:

1. Your name and role in school2. Something you can do really well3. How you learned to do this thing4. How you know you can do it well Then as a group produce a single flipchart page summary of 1,2,3,4 and answer, “Are there any common ideas in the answers to question 3?”

Timekeeper: 20 minutesFacilitator: Manage the ‘introductions’Writer: Record 1, 2 and 3 on flip chart

pageReporter: Blu-tack flip page on wallChecker: Monitor 1, 2, 3 above and roles

Resourcer: Procure materials and equipment


Average Retention Rate vs Method of Learning

National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine5%

10%

20%

30%

50%

75%

90%

95%

Lecture

Reading

Audio-Visual

Demonstration

Discussion Group

Practice by doing

Teach one another

Teach and assess one another

How does your reflection on your own learning relate to this chart?


Is this Communication?


What will we specifically SEE and HEAR when we are having the best conversations possible?


Communication for Learning


Access Express

A simple model of learning…

Learning Styles

Thinking Skills

Multiple Intelligences

Process

Mike Fleetham, 2003


Infusion:

…using thinking skills, learning styles and multiple intelligences to enrichment communication…


GBG – Glass Bead Game


Please allocate the following 5 specialist task roles:

1. What (only asks what?)2. What if (only asks what if?)3. Why (only asks why?)4. How (only asks how?)5. Wild Card (asks anything else)


What?What if?Why?How?Wild Card

Each group member writes down one question about the object


Musical and Linguistic,Existential, Naturalist.Inter- Intrapersonal,Visual, MathematicalOr is it Bodily,Which ones are right for me?


Is this a Professional Learning Community?


A Professional Learning Community

Each group member will think about working and learning in school….


What is a Professional Learning Community?

What professional and personal skills/attitudes /gifts do I offer to this school?

Individually answer these two questions


10 min Distill ideas

A PLC is…

Summary of your ‘gifts’


Is this Possible?


Recall the activities and ideas from today Learner SkillsLearner

Attitudes


Learner SkillsLearner Attitudes

Recall the activities and ideas from today


Cross-Country Review

• Follow our circular route• Watch out for obstacles• Walk the route while discussing:“What would be the best thing to try whole

school?” (i.e. most significant/related to improvement plan/quick-win/manageable/ useful to the children)

• No hiding up trees or under bridges • No short cuts• No smoking

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