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Category Archives: Culture for Learning
Reflective Skills for Teachers: How can you develop your own and support colleagues with their reflective practice?
Reflective Skills: What are they and how can they benefit teachers? Mindset and Communication Skills of the Reflective Peer: Reflective Skills: Useful questions for a reflective conversation with a colleague: Some pointers on how to be an effective reflective partner … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, coaching skills, CPD for Teachers, Culture for Learning, FE, Lesson observations, listening skills, Peer observation, Peer visits, Professional Development, reflection, Staff Development, Thinking skills, Unseen observations
Tagged peer coaching, Peer observation, peer visits, reflection questions, reflective practice, reflective practitioners, Unseen observations
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Teaching Space Podcast: Exploring Coaching In Education And Training with Martine Ellis and Joanne Miles
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/exploring-coaching-in-education-training-interview/id1324183779?i=1000493441763 Thanks to Martine Ellis for inviting me to discuss coaching models and skills on the Teaching Space podcast. I hope there are areas of interest here for people involved in coaching in their workplace, school or college.
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, Coaching, coaching skills, Coaching students, CPD, CPD for Teachers, Culture for Learning, FE, Learning Leader, Management skills, mentoring, Mentoring Students, Professional Development, schools, Solution Focused Approaches, Teacher education, Thinking skills
Tagged coaching, coaching and mentoring, coaching in education and training, coaching models, coaching skills
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Teaching Excellence Podcast with Stef Wilkinson and Joanne Miles: Starting the new academic year in the time of covid-19
In this podcast for the Teaching Excellence series, I talk to Stef Wilkinson about starting the academic year in the time of covid-19. We discuss different models of provision, some challenges and helpful approaches in blended learning and how to … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, blended learning, Coaching, coaching skills, CPD, CPD for Teachers, Culture for Learning, Curriculum Design, Digital skills, FE, Flipped learning, ILT/ICT, Innovation and Creativity in T&L, Online teaching, Professional Development, Professional Learning Communities, Staff Development, Teaching and learning, Zoom/video conferencing
Tagged blended learning, coaching skills, COVID-19, induction, online teaching and learning, PLCs, staff development
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CollectivEd Knowledge Exchange (November- December 2020) Better Conversations: Enhancing education one discussion at a time
Better Conversations, enhancing education one discussion at a time. Four weeks of online knowledge exchange opportunities hosted by CollectivED, Growth Coaching International and Instructional Coaching Group. I am delighted to be involved, discussing the use of coaching approaches to enhance … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, Coaching, coaching skills, Culture for Learning, FE, Lesson observations, Peer observation, Peer visits, reflection, Ungraded lesson observations, Unseen observations
Tagged coaching, CollectivEd Better Conversations, developmental observation, Peer observation, reflective dialogue
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Teaching Excellence Podcast with Joanne Miles and Stef Wilkinson: Professional Development on Lockdown
Thanks to Stef Wilkinson for inviting me to talk about professional development in the FE sector during the coronavirus pandemic for an episode of The Teaching Excellence Podcast. We covered lots of ground related to 1:1 development for teachers, how … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, Coaching, Coronavirus, CPD, CPD for Teachers, Culture for Learning, Digital skills, FE, ILT/ICT, Online teaching, Professional Development, Staff Development, Teaching and learning
Tagged learning in lockdown, Lockdown CPD, professional development in lockdown
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Why teachers need reflection and development space right now
For teachers in all settings the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major changes to the way we plan and deliver learning programmes with students. As a profession we have had to re-think our approaches to communication, engagement, structuring sessions and … Continue reading
Sharing Plans And Practices For Unseen Observation: Video of Zoom Session with Prof Matt O’Leary and Joanne Miles
Today I had the pleasure of hosting a Zoom session with Prof Matt O’Leary and colleagues from the FE sector, to discuss plans and practices related to unseen observation. Here is the video clip of that session for download. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eATkKc5JPByT9sYmWy7MrWs9gxgLZUba/preview“>SharingPlansAndPracticesForUnseenObservationZoomSessionJune11th2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, Coaching, coaching skills, CPD, CPD for Teachers, Culture for Learning, FE, Innovation and Creativity in T&L, Lesson observations, Peer observation, Professional Development, reflection, Staff Development, Teacher education, Uncategorized, Ungraded lesson observations, Unseen observations
Tagged reflective practice, Unseen observations
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What are the potential benefits of unseen observation?
Models and cycles are valuable tools to aid reflection and development and I use them regularly in my practice as a CPD trainer and coach in schools and colleges. The GROW model of coaching, the Supported Experiments cycle and the … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, Coaching, Culture for Learning, FE, Peer observation, Peer sharing, reflection, Teaching and learning, Ungraded lesson observations, Unseen observations
Tagged Developmental observations, reflective practice, reflective practitioners, Unseen observations
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CollectivED webinar programme: Let’s Talk About…Better Professional Conversations
In lieu of our planned CollectivED / GCI conference in June (now rescheduled for November 9th) we are hosting a new webinar series drawing on the conference themes of Better professional conversations; enhancing education one discussion at a time. I … Continue reading
Posted in Coaching, coaching skills, CPD, Culture for Learning, FE, Lesson observations, Peer observation, Professional Development, reflection, Uncategorized, Ungraded lesson observations
Tagged coaching before and after observations, coaching skills, Developmental observations, FE, ungraded observations, ungraded peer observations
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Recording of Zoom Conversation: Professor Matt O’Leary and Joanne Miles on Unseen Observation and Virtual Walk Throughs
Today I spent a fascinating hour in conversation with Professor Matt O’Leary discussing principles and practices related to unseen observation and virtual walk throughs/learning walks. Here is the link to the video recording of that conversation: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/2-BHDYrC0jJIGKOK2nDBd6kdAYC8aaa8gCYeq_FfmRslU40zaRiXYnXaVUhFazGF
Posted in Coaching, coaching skills, Coronavirus, CPD, CPD for Teachers, Culture for Learning, Digital skills, FE, ILT/ICT, Lesson observations, Peer observation, Peer sharing, Peer visits, Professional Development, reflection, Staff Development, Teacher education, Teaching and learning, Uncategorized, Ungraded lesson observations, Unseen observations, Virtual Walk Throughs
Tagged reflective practitioners, teacher reflection, Unseen observations, virtual learning walks, Virtual Walk Throughs
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