management of learning creating a powerful learning environment… how do we try to achieve it in...
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Management of learning
Creating a powerful learning environment…How do we try to achieve it in our own practice?
Management levels
Micro-level: classroomMeso-level: schoolMacro-level: educational policy
Management of learning
School organisation: restructuringSchool culture: reculturing
Classroom level
Teacher roleLearner roleInfrastructure and organisation
Teacher Role
Guide Delegates
responsibilities Provides
opportunities for reflection
Gives feedback Gives support Gives choices Re-enables
learners
Facilitator Organises group
work Differentiates Sequences Provides facilities Acts as Resource
Learner Role
Owner of his own learning(Inter)active constructor of
knowledgeAssessor of his own progress...
School level
InfrastructureTime tablingJob descriptionsLearner work loadBreak down barriersMonitoringAssessmentReporting
Educational Policy
(De)regulationLocal autonomy of schools(Task-based) curriculaProfessional developmentFunding
ConditionsLearner Teacher School AuthoritiesOwnership of learning
Autonomous learner
Learning as constructive enquiry
Understanding what learning and change is about
Willing to take risks
Empathic Safe environment Supportive
Empowered
Empowered
Autonomous Capacity building
Not customer but stakeholder
Team player
Ally
CommunityCollaborative cultureLearner centredHolistic
Adequate resourcing
Treasure Principles
Focus on primary processAgency ConnectednessReflectionSchool as learning organisation
Focus on primary process
Focus on learning and the support of learning
NOT on structural reform
Agency
All stakeholders should have impact on those issues that really matter to them
EmpowermentOwnership: our school, our
innovation
Connectedness
Involvement of all stakeholdersTeachers, learners, parents.. are
allies, not opponentsTeam buildingCo-operative culture
Reflection
« Stop and Think »Practice and theoryAction researchTeachers as reflective practitionersTeachers as professionals
Schools as learning organisations
Schools are learning organisations ‘par excellence’, as learning is their core business
The knowledge in an organisation is more than the sum of the knowledge of its members
The organisation is to foster the learning of its members
Characteristics of the good school (Sammons et al.: 1996)
Professional leadership
Shared vision and goals
A learning environment
Focus on learning and teaching
High expectations Positive reinforcement
Monitoring progressPupil rights and
responsibilitiesPurposeful teachingA learning
organisationHome-school
partnership