PP planners CfU with fellow-teachers and students

Visible learning became the point of our discussion and reflection this week.The automatic answer was "yes" and I asked how do we know this happens in our class? How do we know that students and teachers share a common understanding of the purpose and progress for the PP?

AN: Just the fact that you are aware of how you present the information is important. Making sure our starting point was passion, making sure that our initial focus was what the product will look like and provide examples of that product. All the technical details were unpacked slowly and not delved into at the outset. The whole group discussion with other supervisors help - the explanations of AOI – but not everyone can attend them and so there is a gap in information. Do other teachers and students, who are not in our supervisor group, understand everything that is clear to us? Or is it, as the literature says, us teachers getting excited about what we are doing and its changing our view points but not our students (the other teachers) or the third level which is the actual students. 

ED feels that other teachers are starting to understand what is happening so that they can help their students. He described a lesson that he co-taught to help explain something that the other teacher was not comfortable with. As the lesson carried on the other teacher started to take ownership of the lesson herself which links directly to the comment made on the quality of the relationship between teacher and learner. We understand the goal and the process of the PP is clear. We have not interrogated whether the other teachers understand or whether the kids understand. 

We collated a number of questions to check for understanding and that will be carried out in the next lesson with teachers (Tuesday) and learners (Wednesday).