TEACHER LEADERSHIP LEARNER CURIOSITY COACHING LEARNING ASSESSMENT PRACTICES Linda Kaser

TEACHER LEADERSHIP

LEARNER CURIOSITY

COACHING LEARNING ASSESSMENT PRACTICES

Linda KaserNetworks of Inquiry and innovation

www.noii.ca

Intentions

• Curiosity

• Growth mindset

• Ongoing coaching of learning to shift our systems

Sorting or Learning

K CuriousGrade 12 Curious?

As teacher leaders do we want

Learning?

As teacher leaders do we want

Sorting?

What number of learners

can we have ‘cross the stage with dignity, purpose and options’?

WHY? EVERY learner crossing the stage

with purpose, dignity and options

What Mindset Helps Learners?

Fixed or Growth Mindset

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LEARNER ENGAGEMENT

Social?Academic?

Intellectual?

COACHING ENGAGED LEARNERS

1. Can you name two adults in this setting who believe you will be a success in life?

Schonert-Reichl

2. Where are you going with your learning?3. How are you going?4. Where to next?

Hattie and Timperley

SIX STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGING LEARNERS

• Learners as owners/partners• Learners know the intentions• Learners access clear criteria and examples• Learners receive and give descriptive feedback• Learners respond to timely questions• Learners have peers as resources

Learnersowning theirown learning

Six Key Strategies

MOST SIGNIFICANT TEACHER STEP

Information about what learners need to know and do is used to identify what teachers need to know and do.

Working with a Spiral of Inquiry

SPIRAL OF INQUIRY

Identify Learning Need

• Will working on this focus increase the quality of learning?

• Will working on this issue increase equity among learners?

• Is it connected to knowledge from learning sciences?

• .7 • YES YES YES

Enhance Your Own Teacher Learning

• How will you get started? • Or – how will you continue?• Who will help? • How will you build in multiple opportunities

for learning? • 40 hours

Enhance Learning and Teaching

• How will you use the four learning questions?

• How far can you go with making assessment for and as learning a way of life?

Assess Learning

• How will you know that what you are doing is making a difference?

• Use the four questions – in interviews or in dialogues or in writing

• Use tickets out the door strategies• Access your colleagues for advice

Resources

• Historical Understandings• http://ownlearnin.wikispaces.com• The international learning/assessment

community• Inquiry Handbook for BC Educators – June

2012• www.noii.ca

http://networksofinquiry.blogspot.com/

Thanks for being willing to learn with us!

Let us put our minds together and see what kind of world we can make for our children.

Lakota Chief Sitting Bull

Ongoing inquiry…