Looking for Learning

What format will the workshop follow?

The format for the Looking for Learning workshop will cover one full school day.

The facilitators will lead participants through processes to unpack the theory and protocols embedded within Looking for Learning.

To apply the Looking for Learning approach, participants will be given access to classes throughout the day to practice the student data collection process.

Workshop Inclusions: Course materials, lunch and refreshments

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Looking for Learning Facilitators: Annelies Hoogland and Bern Nicholls are Directors of EDUCAA, an educational consultancy based in Melbourne. Together, and in collaboration with leading educators across the world, EDUCAA provides school leadership teams with deep understandings of what it means to be a ‘learning leader’ focused on improving and increasing learning in their schools.

Annelies Hoogland (MEd) is an experienced school leader and educational consultant. Her professional life has been driven by the transformative process of becoming a leader for learning, specifically tapping into processes that develop thinking dispositions and facilitate quality improvement in learning. Annelies has worked internationally for 20 years and has served as principal for international schools in The Netherlands, Egypt and Thailand.

Putting learning at the heart of your school

$300 including GST

Where and when: Loreto College Coorparoo 415 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo

Monday 24 August 2015 9.00am to 3.45pm On site parking is not available. Best street parking can be found on Lade and Dale Streets.

Bern Nicholls (PhD) is a passionate, curious and experienced educator with 25 years of teaching, leading and researching in secondary schools across Australia. Bern is driven by curiosity and possibility, which has led to ongoing school-based research in the area of thinking and learning. Bern’s thinking is informed by current research on the neurobiology of learning, growth mindsets and intrinsic motivation.

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MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2015 T (07) 3394 9999 F (07) 3847 1254 E email@loreto.qld.edu.au W www.loreto.qld.edu.au 415 Cavendish Road, Coorparoo Qld 4151 PO Box 1726, Coorparoo DC Qld 4151 ABN 73 602 851 304

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At the heart of the process is the collection of learning data from students during class time. This learning data is fed back to the teacher through a meaningful and non-judgemental ‘learning conversation’ that improves both teacher practice and student learning. In schools around the world, Looking for Learning has changed the way leaders lead, and how teachers and students see their classroom. Looking for Learning is a collaborative, structured process that places learning at the core of every classroom.

How will your students benefit from Looking for Learning?

Enables students to reflect upon their learning and thinking, which improves metacognition and places them in the driver’s seat of their own learning.

Provides students with valuable opportunities to discuss their learning with teachers.

Students develop an understanding that their ‘voice’ is valued in the learning process.

Enables the development of great collaborative working relationships between leaders and teachers, and amongst teachers that celebrate learning rather than doing.

How will your school benefit from Looking for Learning?

Schools benefit from the Looking for Learning process in three main ways: Provides essential learning evidence and helps to make sense of the other evidence that already exists in schools.

Provides a way for schools, school leaders and teachers to deliver evidence of learning, the evidence that makes a powerful contribution to school improvement plans, accreditations, school reviews, performance management and more.

Professional Learning Workshops will uncover: The theoretical aspects of the Looking for Learning process.

In essence, the Looking for Learning process: Supports leadership in developing an agreed awareness of what learning is and looks like throughout their schools.

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Provides leadership and teachers with a clear purpose for visiting classrooms to gather studentfocused feedback that will inform both student learning and teacher practice.

Enables a transformation to take place in the way teachers and students see their own classrooms, in the way that colleagues talk with each other, and in the school ethos that emerges from those interactions.

How will teachers and leaders benefit from Looking for Learning?

A ONE DAY WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS AND LEADERS

Provides leaders and teachers with the opportunity to critically reflect upon and understand how students best learn, and why students may be disengaging from the learning process.

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What is Looking for Learning?

The neuroscience of learning and what it looks like in the classroom.

Understanding the seven key questions used in the collection of student learning data.

Classroom visits to practice the skills of collecting student-learning data.

Practicing the ‘Learning Conversation’ that follows a classroom visit.

Plotting the student data on a ‘Learning Map’ using the evidence collected.

What others have said about Looking for Learning “I have learnt to re-imagine my purpose as a Deputy Principal to make learning the focus for everything that we do in school.”

Teresa Lincoln, Deputy Principal, Genazzano FCJ College Melbourne, Australia “We had another great week of Looking for Learning training with Bern and Annelies, and have been making a lot of progress.

Our second group of teachers who were trained made a real shift in their thinking and how they approach learning in the classroom. Not only are they now able to identify learning better but they are also questioning their own practice and approaches to learning. This is of course very exciting as it is the start of our journey toward becoming a truly learning focused school. “ Juliette van Eerdewijk, Principal The Ela Murray International School Papua New Guinea

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