Influencing the Teaching of Your Colleagues

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Influencing the Teaching of Your Colleagues

Have you ever tried to persuade your colleagues to adopt a new teaching idea that you are really excited about, but became frustrated by how hard it was? Are you a subject leader, head of department or SLT member who has responsibility for developing teaching in your school? This course explores the research into how teachers learn, outlines practical strategies for putting the research into practice and gives you the chance to try these strategies yourself.

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Introduction

1.1 Course introduction and Overview

Preview

How Teachers Learn

1.2 Task 1 — Reflect on your own learning as a teacher

1.3 How Teachers Learn — Novices vs. Experts & 1.4 How Beliefs Inform Behaviour

1.5 Task 2 — Exploring Beliefs

1.6 Beliefs — So What & 1.7 Factors that Influence Teacher Learning

1.8 Task 3 — Audit of your own context

1.9 Section summary — what barriers and opportunities have you identified

Changing Teacher Behaviour

2.1 Introduction to Clarke & Hollingsworth model

2.2 Task 4 — Elaborating a model of teacher professional growth

2.3 What makes effective CPD

2.4 Task 5 — Additional Reading: Models of effective professional development

2.5 Section Summary — Putting this into practice

Putting Ideas into Practice

3.1 Putting the Clarke & Hollingsworth model into practice & 3.2 Formal opportunities to lead change & 3.3 Informal opportunities to lead change

3.4 Task 6 — Reflection on opportunities to influence your colleagues

3.5 Leading change

3.6 Task 7 — Staff voice

3.7 The importance of focused modelling

3.8 Task 8 — Prepare to model a teaching segment for a colleague

3.9 The importance of linking modelling with structured discussion

3.10 Task 9 — Model teaching for a colleague then take part in a structured follow up discussion

Conclusion

4.1 Summary — The importance of the continuous learning cycle

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