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Professional Learning TeamsOctober 2010
Recap The PLT meeting 1
Morning tea
Developing a learning log
The PLT in action Leading a PLT Role play
9.00
10.30
11.00 – 1.00
NMR - School Improvement Model
Complex change ….
Change in the way teachers operate/behaviour De-privatised practice
Collaboration and challenge Joint planning Peer observation
Personalisation Evidence based practice /goal setting Strategies for differentiation
Pedagogical teaching and content knowledge Teaching frameworks/concepts Literacy and numeracy teaching strategies Standards and continuums of learning
Assessment practices Technology
Teachers’ beliefs and attitudes about students’ capacity to learn
Activity: Think, pair, share
‘Communities that undermine learning’….. and change
Discuss article by Plat & Tripp at tablesThink about the different teams you have worked
in. Identify one effective team and one low performing team – what was the difference? How would you define a high functioning, accountable PLT?
The genius of ‘AND’…………….. The tyranny of ‘OR’
Must we be A or B, not both??? High performing organisations seek to be both
A and B Not a question of balance – implies going to
the mid point (50-50) Create a culture that is simultaneously loose
and tight Concept of
‘directed empowerment’ ‘defined autonomy’
School readiness
What’s your story?? Implementation stage
Building awareness Common understanding
Planning Piloting Full implementation
Planning Where do you want to be in 2011 What do you need to do What will be your challenges What will you do when you get back to your school
Action plan
Goal: Clarity and alignment
Review structures, frameworks Teaching and learning – what and how Assessments Role and responsibilities Teams Student voice School organisation
Year levels Timetable Meetings
Develop 2011 implementation plan Consider change strategy
Action learning with existing teams
Activity – table talk
Your storyWhere are PLTs in your school at now?Where would you like them to be in a year’s
time?What will you do to get there?
‘Connect peers with purpose’ … …. Fullen
‘Create a sense of urgency’ …………Kotter
AiZ Structure
Teams of teachers (PLTs and Triads)Team leaders (PLT leaders)Learning leaders
School improvement team (SIT)NMR
PLT PLT PLT
Triad Triad Triad Triad TriadTriad
PROFESSIONAL LEARNINGAiZ (Learning Leaders, PLT leaders)
Coaches
School Improvement Team/Leadership Team
PLTs – look like?
Size Ideally no more than 6
Composition Mix of experienced and beginning Mix of expertise (eg numeracy/literacy/disciplines)
Primary Usually year level
Secondary Year level Discipline
PLT structures - secondary
Same subject/discipline
Same class
Vertical
Inter/trans disciplinary teams
Online teams
Organise teamsEach team ensures a guaranteed
curriculumEach team creates frequent common
formative assessmentsDevelop a school wide plan for
intervention and enrichment
AiZ PLTs a new team work approach
Evidence not inference Challenge not share Group responsibility
From ‘my class’ to our studentsYour problem to our solution
Peer accountability rather than system reporting Expectations of ALL students Developmental not deficit approach
Patrick Griffin
The Patrick Griffin model
Use of data based onTheory of the Zone of Proximal
Development (ZPD) – scaffolding of instruction/learning
Developmental continuums or “learning pathway maps”
Patrick Griffin model cont...
Based on the belief that, by knowing where students sit along the continuum, teachers can target the teaching strategies and interventions to scaffold the students to the next level
Goal: to monitor, promote and accelerate students along a developmental continuum (eg VELs) by focusing the teaching to where they ARE, rather than where they SHOULD BE.
Deficit v Developmental learning approach
Prof Patrick Griffin
Deficit approach to learning:
•Focus on what students cannot do
•Outcome is a ‘fix-it’ approach.
Developmental approach:
•Build on and scaffold the existing knowledge bases of every student.
•Focus on student readiness to learn.
A developmental approach to learning
PLTs require clarity around:
1. Guaranteed curriculum/essential learning:
What it is we want our students to learn at each year level - aligned with VELs
Does it have endurance? Does it have leverage? Does it prepare students for next level of
learning?
(Douglas Reeves 2002 – assessing significance of standards)
A developmental approach to learning
2. Knowing when each student has learned it
What will students know and be able to do as a result of unit of work
How will students demonstrate their learning What will it look like in terms of students work How will we monitor students’ learning?
Types of assessment, Purposeful, Focused, Diagnostic, Timely
Making reliable judgements
Teachers need to have 3 sets of data in order for a reliable judgement to be made for each student in the school
Tests should be reliable and accurate i.e. calibrated and not subject to opinion
Where possible use departmental resources -they are free, well researched and developed
Tests should have an aspect of literacy or numeracy as a focus Tests should have data that provides detailed information about
skill levels Tests should be able to indicate where the student needs to go
next. For example have a developmental continuum Test results should be able to indicate student growth once the
test is repeated Test results should help teachers develop groupings in their
classes
Closing the gap???
Idea of closing gap will not be addressed because all kids should move; in fact the gap may widen in some instances.
It’s about identifying where students are ready to learn rather than where they are expected to be.
Teaching concepts, not just skills will enable students to perform better in future tests.
Four critical questions for learning:
What is it we expect our students to learn?
How will we know when they have learned it?
How will we respond when they don’t learn?
How will we respond when they already know it?
Learning by Doing, DuFour et al
Activity - Think, pair, share
Do you believe that schools should be expected to deliver a guaranteed curriculum at each year level What does a guaranteed curriculum mean to you How does it impact on the 4 critical questions for learning?
To what extent is the use of learning continuums embedded in the practice of your school? Refer to NMR Maths competencies Years P – 8 What is the value of a continuum for teachers, for students Do you have concerns about the use of a continuum
Share these with the person next to you.
Effective PLTS
Shared norms and values
Collaboration
Collective focus on student learning
Reflective dialogue
De-privatisation of practice
Sharon Kruse (Building Professional Learning Communities) 1995
Meetings follow set protocols
A developmental approach to learning
Students & teachers
Engage in process of evidence based inquiry to plan for teaching interventions
Members accountable to the group
Prof Patrick Griffin
Shared values, goals
Collaborative culture
Collective inquiry (and challenge)
Action orientation (learning by doing)
Commitment to continuous improvement
Results orientation
DuFour and Eaker (1998)
Ticking the effective team boxes
TEAMS
Activity: Think, pair, share
‘Communities that undermine learning’….. and change
Discuss article by Plat & Tripp at tablesThink about the different teams you have worked
in. Identify one effective team and one low performing team – what was the difference? How would you define a high functioning, accountable PLT?
The PLT meeting
What does is it look like, feel like, sound like …………..
Featuring: Lena Clark Lorraine Edwards Patricia Quan
Activity: Observation and table discussion
What is the PLT leader doing? What are PLT members doing? Nature of conversation, questioning? How does this align with student centred
meetings at your school?The main outcome of the meeting was the
development of the learning log. From the PLT discussion you have just observed identify what you think should be the key elements of a student learning log?
Developing a learning log
Student: Level: On Demand: VELS:Year Level: Review date: ___________
Is the level on the pathway what was expected in relation to the evidence collected in the classroom? If not, what level does the evidence suggest?
Why?
What specific learning goals are set to support this student’s development and progress?
Set goals that are focused and specific.
For information about what to set as specific learning goals look at:VELS Progression PointsMathematics Continuum – Indicators of ProgressNMR Powerful Learning Maths Competencies P-8
Eg: Use short-cut strategies to multiply and divide a number by multiples of 10
What specific teaching strategies will you use to achieve these goals?
Where to find teaching strategies:Mathematics ContinuumScaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years – Learning PlansTeaching Primary Mathematics by George BookerOther Maths teachersT&L Coach (Numeracy)
Eg: Use multiplication algorithm to identify patterns when multiplying by multiples of 10. Summarise in own words what happens.
What resources are needed?Open ended questionsEg. Good Questions for Math Teaching by Nancy Canavan Anderson, Lainie SchusterThinking Allowed by Sue GunninghamOnline resourcesEg. Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/Concrete aides & toolsEg. MAB, counters, icypole sticks, calculator
Graphic OrganisersEg. PlacematGamesProfessional Development, egT&L Coach (Numeracy)Online Other Maths teachersExternal providers
What evidence (do, say, make, write) would show the goals are met? You don’t need to collect all 4 types of evidence each time. Think about what is going to best demonstrate the student’s learning in relation to the goal set. Over time you would aim to collect a range of different types of evidence.The student will be able to SAY: explain a solution process, identify the next step in a process, explain links in their thinking, etc. This can be recorded in teacher notes, using the Flip camera, etcThe student will be able to DO: a particular type of problem, an online task, etc.The student will be able to MAKE: a model representing a problem, etc.The student will be able to WRITE: solution to a problem showing steps, explanation of how they solved the problem, instructions for someone else, etc.
Professional Learning Team Log Literacy Date:Student Code: ABC12
Year Level: 7A Low
Subject: Hums/ Endangered Species
Review Date: 3 weeks
1. Is the level on the pathway what was expected in relation the evidence collected in the classroom? If not, what level does the evidence suggest.
In reading comprehension the student is able to identify literal facts in a piece of text but does not understand how to infer meaning from a text
2. What specific learning goals are set to support this student’s development and progress?
• Identify the inference or implied information in a variety of texts
• Be able to explain how they identified inference
• Be able to use inference in their own writing
3a. What specific teaching strategies will you use to achieve these goals?
• Remind students of the difference between literal and inferential information
• Get students to practise identifying oral inference at sentence level related to topic/
• Inference in pictures/cartoons • In reading of texts on endangered
species ask students to identify inference In paragraphs and in longer texts
• A sheet that asks them how they determined the inference in some activities
• Get students to practise writing using inference
• Provide opportunities for students to practise inference in whole class, individual and small group situations
4. What evidence (do, say, make and write,) would show goals are met?
• Student work samples x 3 of written questions related to endangered species/inference
• Teacher observation notes of student group work on investigating an endangered species
• Oral responses from students in regard to how they determine inference
• Extended piece of writing on an endangered species where they include inference
• Student writing of inferential questions
PLT: using data to plan teaching learning logs
Develop a learning log for a group of students (any grade level) for whom ‘your’ evidence shows their skills in identifying or interpreting the main idea of text is lowDetermine learning goals for next 3 weeks
No more than 3 goalsWhat teaching strategies will use to achieve
these goalsWhat evidence will you use to show goals
have been met specific and measurable
The PLT in action
Leading the change …………
Leading the change …………
The work of the PLT leader
Lead the team Understand change Model behaviours Develop culture of challenge – questioning
Develop the capacity of the team Pedagogical knowledge Assessment practices Use of data Goal setting and strategy selection
Support collaboration Regular, focused meetings Establish protocols Develop structure and processes
PLT Meetings
Develop agreed protocols/normsSet agenda/proformasRegular timeKeep to timeHave a focusShare facilitationEncourage participation and group
The process
TEAMS of teachers take responsibility for the cohort
LEADERS take teams of teachers through the following cycle:
REVIEW where the students are at. What is their Zone of proximal development? Look at evidence of what students can DO, SAY, MAKE or
WRITE What evidence have we used to determine this?
What learning GOALS are appropriate? PLAN STRATEGIES/ INTERVENTIONS to move them forward
IDENTIFY THE RESOURCES needed
STIPULATE THE EVIDENCE required to say that kids have moved
The Process ……Patrick Griffin
Review students’ progress. Discussion based on evidence of
do, say, make and write. All inferences of learning challenged and defended.
Identify the resources that are needed
Stipulate the evidence that will be required to establish
that movement has occurred and the timeframe
for the review
Plan strategy for intervention to take the
students to the next level on the
developmental continuum.
The Process ……building teacher capacity
Set Goals
Identify strategies(Identify teacher learning
needs?)
Act/ Implement
Observe/give feedback/Reflect
Analyse ClassroomData
Teacher Inquiry
Knowledge Building
cycle
Hume Central SC
PLT agenda and timingTopic Details Timing
1a Sharing Use of data 10 min
1b Select students
Highest, lowest and middle common levels + 1 student from whom data/assessments were used from each class (if applicable)
5 min
1c Middle level
Selection of students from common levels from each class by individual teachers
5 min
1d Each teacher to give background on each selected student from this level to be discussed
2 min per student
2a Look for commonalities b/ween students and decide goals
3a Strategies/resources
Discuss possible interventions/strategies/resources in general
10 min per stud
3b Decide on interventions
4 Evidence Decide on evidence that goals will be met
5 Review Decide review date and fill out learning for selected students
Activity: Producing a learning log
Task: complete a learning log for a student or a cohort of students
Year 7: Finn and the Big Guy
Data
- 2009 Y7 Spa/Naplan diagnostic data (sample)
- 2009 Y7 Naplan questions and source material
Steps
- Analyse data 10 min
- Select cohorts/student 5 min
- Identify/develop learning goals 10 min
- Identify teaching strategies to achieve learning goals 10 min - Identify evidence to show learning goals have been met 10 min
Activity: Producing a learning log
Groups of 5 – 6 teachers
Nominate: Team leader and observer
Team Leader: lead meeting
Observer: note type of questioning, level of challenge, use and focus on data, team participation, use of protocols to engage team member in discussion
Reflection: 5 mins Observer reports back to team about observations.
Group reflects 2 key positives and 2 key challenges for doing the work in their schools.