Locality South West - Towards an Evidence-Informed Profession

AIMS

To support the development of learning & teaching through a shared process of structured inquiry and professional reflection.

Structure / Content

The programme will provide a facilitated opportunity to collaborate, learn and network with colleagues across the system.  This approach is guided by Learning Leaders (2016) putting teachers at the heart of their own professional learning journey.  All teachers will be supported to identify their own inquiry question for professional development. The programme will consist of four half day workshops, with the first one aimed at leaders of learning and teaching in addition to teachers:

• Session 1 - ‘What does effective learning and teaching look like?’  What does the research tell us are “best bets”?
• Session 2 - ‘Exploring a cycle of inquiry to develop your classroom practice.’
• Session 3 – ‘Building, engaging with and contributing to professional learning communities’ including the development of subject networks.
• Session 4 - ‘Know thy impact.’ Evaluating the Impact of Teacher Professional Learning on student learning

Each session will be supported by featured modules / inputs from practitioners.

These sessions are intended as a starting point for participants to consider exploring and developing one or more of the above themes in more detail, which they may wish to pursue with their designated School Improvement Professional.

Participants will attend all sessions and will be supported to engage in inquiry-based practice between sessions. 

Senior Teachers with responsibility for leading learning and teaching will commit to supporting this developmental work, including attending the sessions and facilitating inquiry as a methodology for improving classroom practice.