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What’s changed?

Key Learning Question:

What effect have my actions had on my students and myself?

In this section we look at evaluating your learning enquiry actions and their effect on students. In other words how your action plan played out. This is an important part of the enquiry learning cycle; finding out what you have learned about yourself and your changing practice and considering the impact this has had on students. Such an evaluation will  help you to decide whether to continue with the changes, whether to adapt or ditch them, or even whether to recommend that such changes would be useful for other staff to adopt across the school.

There are two parts to the evaluation, a self reflection stage and a team reflection stage. The team reflection stage can only be accessed by those schools that are using these Units as part of a whole school Professional Learning Programme. 

 

Get a sense of how it’s all gone. 

Distill what you have done and achieved

 How did your action plan play out?

It helps if you cover:

  • what did I do? 
  • what was the impact on students:
    • improvements in behaviour;
    • more/renewed interest in the subject;
    • greater harmony in the classroom;
    • more willingness to try, and try different ways;
    • Avoidance of…..
    • Improvements in……
    • Increases in…….
    • Little of no changes in…
  • check out your list of indicators:
  • what did you learn about yourself and your students;
  • What do you see as the next steps?

Some questions to encourage you to think more deeply:

  • What do you think got in the way?
  • What would make this better?
  • How could this technique be modified to make it work for you?
  • What do you think made it work so well?’
  • What new mistakes did you make?

 Now look more closely at what you have changed about your way of working so that students become more skilled in getting unstuck.

Look back at your learning enquiry question and any impact notes you made. Think about:

  • Things you started doing that you hadn’t done previously
  • Things that you stopped doing in order to shift the culture
  • Things you did more often and less often in order to hone the culture
  • Things you were already doing and kept on doing because they were on the right track
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Now using the three baskets, offer an overall assessment of the changes you have made. Identify:

  • Things that worked really well. The ones you feel most satisfied with.
  • Things that worked okay but need a bit of finessing.
  • Things that didn’t seem to work and you quietly stopped doing them.

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