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Category Archives: Staff Development
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 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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A reflective Zoom conversation about professional presence in virtual spaces with Joanne Miles and Michelle Wakeling
Thanks to Michelle Wakeling from Hadlow College for joining me in Zoom today to talk through ideas and experiences of being our professional selves in virtual spaces as we learn to coach, train and teach online. We share our observations, … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, Coaching, coaching skills, Coronavirus, CPD, CPD for Teachers, Digital skills, FE, ILT/ICT, Online teaching, Professional Development, reflection, Staff Development, Teaching and learning, Zoom/video conferencing
Tagged being yourself online, professional identity in virtual spaces, virtual presence
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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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Making The Most Of Live Online Learning Sessions – Loom Presentation by Joanne Miles
I have been talking to teachers recently about how we make the most of live online learning sessions with students and so here are some thoughts on that hot topic: https://www.loom.com/share/763a1a73e3b14ef5b7d1d09014d1d846 And here is the slide presentation to download: MakingTheMostOfLiveOnlineLearningSessions.JoanneMiles.2ndJuly2020
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
How can we enhance the depth and quality of reflection around lesson observation through coaching?
I was part of a webinar recently organised by CollectivEd which focused on having better professional conversations and building professional cultures for teachers to thrive in. I spoke about how we can enhance the depth and quality of reflection around … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, Coaching, coaching skills, CPD for Teachers, FE, Lesson observations, Peer observation, Professional Development, reflection, Staff Development, Teacher education, Teaching and learning, Ungraded lesson observations
Tagged coaching, Developmental Lesson Observations, reflective lesson observations
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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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Planning a CPD Strategy: Some Questions For Reflection or Discussion
What is the purpose of a CPD strategy, for you? And for others? What is the benefit of devising a strategy for CPD? What will the strategy help you to do? What ethos and values do you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Action research, Coaching, CPD, CPD for Teachers, FE, Leadership of learning, Learning Leader, Peer observation, Peer sharing, Peer visits, Professional Development, Professional Learning Communities, reflection, Sharing good practice, Staff Development, Uncategorized
Tagged CPD programme, CPD Strategy, Professional Learning Strategy
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Pandemic Pedagogy for Teachers and Coaches: Questions For Exploring TLA Practices In The Virtual Realm
As teachers develop new ways of working in virtual spaces with learners throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, I am hearing conversations starting about the nature of pandemic pedagogy. For many teachers it has been a complex and challenging journey to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Practitioners, assessment for learning, Assessment methods, Coaching, Coronavirus, CPD, CPD for Teachers, Differentiation, Digital skills, FE, Feedback, Flipped learning, ILT/ICT, Innovation and Creativity in T&L, reflection, Retrieval practice, Staff Development, Stretch and challenge, Teaching and learning
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Online teaching, pandemic pedagogy, reflection questions, Teaching from home, virtual teaching and learning
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