Teacher Learning Communities

Who? What? When? Why?

There will be five teacher learning communities (TLC) workshops this year. The purpose of the TLCs is to provide a forum to discuss the implementation of agile teaching and share best practice. We are committed to a horizontal model of professional development in which staff help each other to improve as this gives staff greater control and ownership of their learning. We feel this model is far more effective than asking staff to sit in the hall and listen to a speaker. The workshops will take place in after school meeting time on the following dates:

1. 2 November
2. 18 January
3. 21 March
4. 2 May
5. 27 June

The focus of each workshop is most likely to be one of the five strand of Agile Teaching but we might choose to have a different focus if staff make a request or if learning walks suggest we need to concentrate elsewhere.

What’s new?

We have re-jigged the groups and TLC leaders. We will no longer work in triads and there is no expectation of observation – as useful as this can be. Following analysis of Claire Hamnett’s staff survey about TLCs, we have dropped the pre-made meeting materials and have created our own ‘Chenified’ workshop materials. In addition, the format of meetings now puts greater emphasis on sharing best practice and coaching.

Please get in touch if you have any comments of questions.

Cheers,

Rob Bown