developing “leading in learning” icknield high school
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Developing “Leading in Learning”
Icknield High School
Icknield High School
Parveen Akhtar Sarah Scott Seema Vyas Alan Reid
Luton Advisory Service
Archie Conway
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposing team.
Jean-Paul Sartre
In teaching, everything is complicated by the presence of the students.
What is “Leading in Learning”?
National Thinking Skills Programme Promoting deep learning as an
active social process Promoting students’ understanding
of themselves as learners Infusion Model
What is “Leading in Learning”?
Explicit about learning skills, processes and strategies
These are taught across the curriculum to promote transfer
Collaborative learning by groups of teachers
National Curriculum Thinking Skills
Information-processing skills Reasoning skills Enquiry skills Creative-thinking skills Evaluation skills
Ten Strategies to make links
1. Advance Organisers 2. Analogies 3. Audience and Purpose 4. Classifying 5. Collective Memory 6. Living Graphs and Fortune Lines 7. Mysteries 8. Reading Images 9. Relational Diagrams 10. Summarising
Important Features of LiL
The 3 lesson cycle
3 x 3 lessons per phase
Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration
Teacher-Teacher coaching
Planning Review Planning Review Planning Review
1st Lesson 2nd Lesson 3rd Lesson
Observation, video, meeting,
interviewing pupils, reading learning logs
Observation, video, meeting,
interviewing pupils, reading learning logs
The 3-Lesson Model
What does a LiL lesson look like?
Ground rules for working in groups
Specific thinking skills objective as the lead objective
No hands up
Group work
What does a LiL lesson look like?
Social construction (language)
Starter which introduces the thinking skill
Metacognitive plenary concerning the thinking skills objective
Is it any good?
Group interviews after Cycle 1
Questionnaire after Cycle 1
Analysis of group work during Cycle 3
Questionnaire after Cycle 3
External Evaluation by HMI
Is it any good?
huge level of enjoyment for both students and teachers
ability of the children to apply the thinking strategies was very high
first time most students had thought about their own thinking and learning
ability to work in groups was greatly enhanced by the LiL lessons
Tremendous effects on development of the staff
The LiL lessons have helped me work in groups better
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Selling LiL
INSET
Lessons taught to staff
Why has this gone so well?
Quality of teachers
Enthusiasm of teachers
Ability of teachers to reflect on practice
Excellent support from advisor
Why has this gone so well?
Very good materials
Made LiL a priority in terms of time
SLT support
Teacher-Teacher Coaching
What’s Next?
“Intensive Cascade”
Keeping it tight
