- The school as a learning community
This exercise may be used in an in-school training session for the whole staff or smaller groups of teachers. The debriefing may raise questions or suggestions for further topics in in-service training for teachers....
- The culture of learning
Variety is good, but it is better in synthesis. It is crucial to agree to a common definition of learning. It is even better to include in this, as many different aspects as we can. You and your staff are different persons, as we all have the right to be....
- The Council of Europe’s model of competences for democratic culture (CDC)
The principal listens to the teachers’ requests and suggestions and then responds. Before the meeting is closed, the principal and staff should have agreed on the next step, or steps, that they will take together....
- Teaching as a whole-school approach
Apart from team teaching, teachers are alone in their classes. Over time they may develop blind spots in their interaction with students, and these can only be detected by peer supervision. A teacher may need support in doing his job....
- How can people live together?
Learning objectives: To consider the role of education in training competences for intercultural dialogue (see diagram and notes on Competences for democratic culture....
- Linking learning to the real world: Checking my teaching objectives
For learning to be meaningful, learners must be able to link their learning outcomes to their experience and interests in real life. It is therefore essential for teachers to check their objectives if they intend to connect their teaching to the real world....
- Assessing and evaluating vs. testing and controlling
There are three different basic standards of reference for the assessment and marking of students’ performance: Individual criterion, Objective criterion, Social criterion....
- Value-based teaching and learning as prevention of behavior problems at school
Good intentions in written documents are of little value if school leaders and staff do not demonstrate often and in everyday situations, that the formal declarations really tell the truth....
- Teaching as a factor of democracy
Science teachers often find it difficult to imagine living beings behind figures and data. Conversely, arts teachers have difficulties working with abstract figures that stand for living beings. ...
- Knowing and understanding diversity at school
If you do this activity outdoors, make sure that the participants can hear you, especially if you are doing it with a large group! You may need to use your co-facilitators to relay the statements....
- At the beginning or at the end: My personal educational history
This activity can work as the first activity of the whole series presented here, or as a concluding one, at the end of the series. The only thing that does changes the debriefing which occurs either as a starting or a closing discussion of Action....
