Effective Papers For learning

Tim Brighouse in his  'four ways you know you are in a good school' , suggested the following four indicators of success:  “Teachers talk about teaching, teachers observe each other’s practice, teachers plan, organise and evaluate their work together rather than separately, and that teachers teach each other.”. The final three are offshoots of the first, and in this post I'll describe ways in which my school is trying to develop conditions in which teacher dialogue about the detail of classroom practice is regular, supportive and influential. In the past, one of the methods we've tried to use is the 'Teacher Learning Community' model, whereby INSET time is dedicated to placing groups of colleagues together for the purposes of discussion and  professional learning. In theory, this ticks all of the Brighouse boxes and when launched a few years ago, was received with optimism from school leaders: 'teachers', 'learning' and 'communities' were...