This report is an attempt to map the landscape of professional learning to prompt ideas that can grow from the foundation — albeit small — that is already in
place around professional learning.
It's been well - established in the
literature around professional learning communities that team - developed common assessments can serve as powerful tools to monitor students» level of proficiency in the essential standards (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many, and Mattos 2016).
The Learning First research project looked at existing
evidence around professional learning, what top performing systems do to develop their teachers and what other countries can learn from them.
During round two, the podcasts BLOOMED into a beautiful bouquet of learning as very special educators joined the
dialogue around professional learning, change, and continuous improvement.
From being involved with the KidsMatter Early Childhood Framework, many of the services fed back that through engaging with the Framework and
around the professional learning sessions, they actually not only deepened their understanding of children's mental health and wellbeing, they also deepened their understanding of each other.
What we
do around our professional learning, is help educators to build their knowledge around mental health and wellbeing, so around children's social skills, their emotional skills and their sense of self.
It's been well - established in the
literature around professional learning communities that team - developed common assessments can serve as powerful tools to monitor students» level of proficiency in the essential standards (DuFour, et al 2016).
But, for me, the bigger picture in terms of impact is the culture of professional learning at the school — it's about the increased agency teachers have
around their professional learning.»
RM: «But it is equally clear that some individuals [and teams] don't have the capacity, skills and knowledge required to do the task, and also there aren't perhaps the most appropriate processes, protocols and procedures around assessment, around curriculum, around organising data, around pedagogy,
around professional learning and so forth.