Welcome to this resource for Learning Champions
This resource is designed to support you, as a learning champion nominated by your school, to:
- get to grips with the concepts and practicalities of developing students’ learning power
- engage with and learn from a blended learning programme with colleagues, in preparation for…
- helping other teachers to take part in the programme and develop their teaching to develop better learners.
This resource accompanies two online resources to which you will be given access:
‘Playing the Learning Power Game‘, a whole school staff development programme to develop students as metacognitive, self-regulated learners
‘Finding Learning Power’, an online resource offering teachers a set of tools to collect and analyse information about their students’ learning character.
This resource is designed to help you:
- Gain an overview of what the development of learning power is all about;
- Look at your own class using the ‘Finding Learning Power’ resource and consider how it might be used to stimulate learning conversations with colleagues;
- Understand how the Playing the Learning Power Game programme is designed to work across the school;
- Experience how Professional Learning Teams work by forming one with fellow Learning Champions;
- Decide how, as a team, you might introduce, and support the programme, to teachers throughout the school;
- Take part in monitoring and supporting the effects of the programme as it moves along.
Navigating the modules – an important read.
As a Learning Champion you have access to 3 online modules –
- this one, Learning Power Champions
- ‘Finding Learning Power’ and
- ‘Playing the Learning Power Game’.
This Champions resource aims to make this interesting role manageable and is best approached in 4 stages as your role develops.
Stage 1
We suggest that initially you become familiar with the first 4 sections of this module:
- What is Learning Power all about?
- How does Finding Learning Power work?
- How does Playing the Learning Power Game work?
- Becoming a Professional Learning Team
Stage 2
Then, as a team of ‘Champions’, work through ‘Finding Learning Power‘ and begin working through ‘The Learning Power Game’. No need to finish it at this stage, but give it at least 3 months of sustained effort to give you experience of;
- reading and digesting the online course content
- learning together as a professional learning team
- undertaking learning enquiries in your classroom(s).
If you’ve had input in advance about the why and what of learning power, use section 1 of Playing the Learning Power Game as a reminder rather than a section to be worked through together.
Stage 3
When you have been learning on the job for a couple of months and become familiar with the programme’s routines, begin to look at section 5 and 6 of this module. These will help you to begin to think about, and plan for, bringing your colleagues on board.
Stage 4
When the programme is well on its way across the school revisit the ideas and resources in section 6 (monitoring and evaluating progress) and begin to introduce them into your own practice before using more widely with staff.
Enjoy your journey.
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