After reading Unleashing Great Teaching (Clay and Weston, 2018) I was inspired to share my own professional learning focus. Admitting there is an area of your teaching that can be improved may lead to feelings of vulnerability and this is why it is particularly important that leaders model their own professional development. By doing thisContinue reading “A Professional Learning Focus”
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What we may have missed without collaboration
We invested an hour in a joint planning exercise for the next half term of our scheme of work today and it raised some fascinating questions. Without this discussion we may not have fully addressed the below: Are the planned content and activities really ‘teaching to the top’? Are we shying away from a difficultContinue reading “What we may have missed without collaboration”
Plan Do Check Adjust PDCA
The Shewhart Cycle is a method used in business to continually improve processes and products. It consists of four steps: Plan, Do, Check, Adjust. This is a concept at the heart of the collaborative teaching model in my department. The collaborative planning model shared in my first blog post details the collaborative planning cycle inContinue reading “Plan Do Check Adjust PDCA”
Victoria Hughes Ed 