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Carpe Eruditio (Seize the learning)

Carpe Eruditio (Seize the learning) Practical tools, techniques and ideas to improve teaching and learning today. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun. Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. Harry Crews.

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Carpe Eruditio (Seize the learning)

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  1. Carpe Eruditio(Seize the learning) Practical tools, techniques and ideas to improve teaching and learning today Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.Jacques Barzun Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. Harry Crews 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 with Mike Fleetham

  2. 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

  3. To learn about learning together To communicate well Learning Opportunities Summarised

  4. 9:00 Introduction and Welcome 9:10 Is this Learning? 10:30 Break 11:00 Is this Communication? 12:30 Lunch 1:30 Is this a Professional Learning Community? 2:30 Is this Possible? 3:30 Close Opportunity for questions & resources sharing

  5. Is this Learning?

  6. Comfort and Learning Danger Karaoke Growth Comfort (DVD/Book/Wine)

  7. Line up by… your thinking style

  8. Of the same size (6s) With a mix of thinking style Then find a new ‘home table’ to sit at Form groups…

  9. 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 Allocate groups roles…

  10. INDIVIDUALLY, please note down your response to the following 3 prompts: • Something you can do really well • How you learned to do this thing • 3. How you know you can do it well

  11. 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 wellThen 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 minutes Facilitator: Manage the ‘introductions’ Writer: Record 1, 2 and 3 on flip chart page Reporter: Blu-tack flip page on wall Checker: Monitor 1, 2, 3 above and rolesResourcer: Procure materials and equipment

  12. How does your reflection on your own learning relate to this chart? Average Retention Rate vs Method of Learning National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine 5% Lecture 10% Reading 20% Audio-Visual 30% Demonstration 50% Discussion Group 75% Practice by doing Teach one another 90% Teach and assess one another 95%

  13. Is this Communication?

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

  15. Communication for Learning

  16. A simple model of learning… Process Access Express Learning Styles Thinking Skills Multiple Intelligences Mike Fleetham, 2003

  17. Infusion: …using thinking skills, learning styles and multiple intelligences to enrichment communication…

  18. GBG – Glass Bead Game

  19. Please allocate the following 5 specialist task roles: What (only asks what?) What if (only asks what if?) Why (only asks why?) How (only asks how?) Wild Card (asks anything else)

  20. What? What if? Why? How? Wild Card Each group member writes down one question about the object

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

  22. Is this a Professional Learning Community?

  23. A Professional Learning Community Each group member will think about working and learning in school….

  24. What is a Professional Learning Community? Individually answer these two questions What professional and personal skills/attitudes /gifts do I offer to this school?

  25. A PLC is… Summary of your ‘gifts’ 10 min Distill ideas

  26. Is this Possible?

  27. Recall the activities and ideas from today Learner Attitudes Learner Skills

  28. Recall the activities and ideas from today Learner Attitudes Learner Skills

  29. 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 Cross-Country Review

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