This unit is somewhat different in that you may find it useful to undertake sections of it at several points during Phase 2 of the programme. Since Phase 2 The Professional Learning Power Game is likely to take a school at least two years to work through, Reviewing our Progress would offer teams and individual teachers a good steer for navigating the second year. The unit is designed to help you review your progress in both:
- developing a learning culture in your classrooms and
- the impact this has had on your students’ learning dispositions.
Here you’ll find review tools to help you look at changes in your learning culture, as well as tools that will show whether and how your students have grown in confidence and competence as learners.
Unit sections
Section 1 Reviewing classroom culture
1a A basic review tool
Section 1 looks back to the review tool that you may have used in Phase 1 ‘Playing the Learning Power Game’ and invites you to compare your classroom culture now with how it was when you were setting out on the programme. This section encourages you to reflect on your changing practice and to address the questions “How far have I come?” and “How have the changes in classroom culture impacted on student learning dispositions?”
Schools that worked through a pre-2022 edition of ‘Playing the Learning Power Game’ will not have seen this review tool and are advised to use it by at least the mid point of Phase 2
1b. A deep review tool
Section 1b introduces more detailed trajectories for the development of classrooms as you move from teacher focused to learning friendly, and likewise more detailed trajectories for how students’ learning dispositions may respond. Section 1b invites you to assess your current classroom culture and student learning dispositions against these trajectories and to reflect on both what you have already achieved and consider what you might need to do next.
These trajectories are new. That is to say they have not appeared in any previous units. We suggest you use them towards the end of Phase 2.
Section 2 Team reflection on classroom culture
2. Team reflection on classroom culture reviews
Section 2 This team session is specifically designed to enable teams to use their review data from the review tools shown in section 1 and to answer the questions “How are we doing, how are our students doing and where do we need to go next?”. The design of this team session is such that you can use the format one two or threes occasions to discuss different aspects of the review data being collected.
Section 3 Reviewing student growth
3a. Growing skilfulness as shown in Phase 2 progression charts
Section 3a invites you to reflect on how the Professional Game of Learning Power has enabled your students to become more skilful learners. We offer two possibilities here. The first asks you to consider the extent to which students have progressed through the lens of the progression charts introduced in Phase 2, helping you to answer the question “Are my students becoming increasingly skilful learners?”
3b Growing skilfulness as shown in the Finding Learning charts
Section 3b The second returns to the streamlined progression chart that you met in the resource Finding Learning Power and used to assess skill development at the very beginning of Phase 1 and your adventure with Playing the learning Power Game.
Schools that worked on a pre-2022 edition of Playing the Learning Power Game or have not subsequently obtained the resource Finding Learning Power will, nevertheless, be able to use the instrument as shown in the downloads. However, they won’t have the advantage of being able to compare this new and previous data.
Section 4 Team reflection on student growth
4. Team session. Reviewing the growth of students as learners
Section 4 This team session encourages teams to use their review data to answer the questions “How are our students progressing?”. The design of this team session is such that you might want to return to use the format on two or threes occasions in the future to discuss different aspects of the review data being collected.
5. What’s next?
What’s next? – is simply a reminder that you have thus far probably only scratched the surface of the 12 Professional Learning Power Game modules. Revisit them, seek out higher order teaching behaviours that will further up-skill students’ learning behaviours, or expand your repertoire by tackling modules you have yet to address.
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