Andy NewellManaging Director IRIS Connect

Our work has evolved from 3 key principles…

Teachers matter most

Hattie 2003

Teachers matter most

Teachers Matter Most

The effects of high quality teaching are especially significant for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The Sutton Trust

Do teachers get the support they need?

Only 28% of teachers expressed satisfaction with their current CPD provision

Traditional PD

A snapshot of 75 training opportunities by theTDA in 2011 showed that less than 10% wereeffectively embedding new practice, and barely1% were transforming existing practice.

Traditional PD

The most common form of training attended in 2010 was listening to a lecture or presentation

De-contextualised, Depersonalised, Disempowered If schools are to be centres of Pedagogical expertise, should we not

extend this to be centres of excellence in Andragogy?

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Type of Experience What it Does

Skill Transfer

Presentation Helps the learner become aware of a new skill, strategy, or teaching practice

5%

PLUS

Modeling & Demonstration

Provides the learner with a chance to see “what it looks like” 10%

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Type of Experience What it Does

Skill Transfer

Presentation Helps the learner become aware of a new skill, strategy, or teaching practice

5%

PLUS - Modeling & Demonstration

Provides the learner with a chance to see “what it looks like” 10%

PLUS

Practice

Allows the learner to practice • Practice in a workshop setting• Practice within a Professional Learning Community

20%

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Type of Experience What it Does

Skill Transfer

Presentation Helps the learner become aware of a new skill, strategy, or teaching practice

5%

PLUS - Modeling & Demonstration

Provides the learner with a chance to see “what it looks like” 10%

PLUS - Practice Allows the learner to practice in simulated condition 20%

PLUS

Developmental Feedback

Helps the learner understand how to modify their performance to be more effective • Individualized, data-driven feedback• Self-reflections

25%

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Type of Experience What it Does

Skill Transfer

Presentation Helps the learner become aware of a new skill, strategy, or teaching practice

5%

PLUS - Modeling & Demonstration

Provides the learner with a chance to see “what it looks like” 10%

PLUS - Practice Allows the learner to practice in simulated condition. 20%

PLUS - Corrective Feedback

Helps the learner understand how to modify their performance to be more effective

25%

PLUS

Coaching & Mentoring

Provides the learner with coaching and mentoring about their instruction with their students• Asynchronous video analysis, feedback in the context of

planning learning goals, implementing strategies, evaluating progress

• Real-time, job-embedded coaching

90%

70%

80%

95%

50%

10%

5%

If Content is King, Context is the Kingdom

WeEnact

•Being a coach or mentor•Sharing best practice•Communities of Practice•Peer Mentoring•Iterative mentoring•Self Review•Observing Best Practice

Following David A Sousa – How the Brain Works

Teaching

Experiencing

Discussing with others

Seeing & hearing

Reading

Lectures

Michael Fullan 2000

“Nothing has promised so much and has been so frustratingly wasteful as thousands of workshops and conferences that led to no significant change in practice when teachers returned to the classrooms”

What interactions are effective?

Contextualised, Personalised, Iterative

• Modelling

• Observation Lesson ObservationWithin Community of practice

• Dialogue

Lesson Observation Challenges:

• Obtrusiveness (disturbing the dynamic)• Subjective • Expensive / hard to scale • Debrief issues• Dual purposed

“The inspiring future of school improvement lies in the fear factor

giving way to the peer factor”

Hargreaves and Shirley, 2010

IRIS ConnectBuilding Social Capital Networks