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Project Implementation Processes
1. Meetings:
Our 15 staff meet fortnightly as the whole team and in the subject groups of MA, EN, SC in the other week.

2. Approach:

Staff are following four linked aspects -

(a) Build on and expand existing good T&L activities - in using existing or new activities teachers choose / identify 1 to 2 good learning behaviours (GLBs) to focus on from table (this table was developed earlier through brainstorming) that can be enhanced by the activity.

1. Monitoring Learning 2. Decision making, sharing intellectual control, responsibility 3. Language of Learning 4. Problem solving / risk taking 5. Formative / collaborative assessment

.Eradicating misunderstandings .Retrieving prior knowledge
.Thinking questions (fat) .Checks for understanding
.Learning from mistakes .Coaching each other .Listening
.Memory triggers
.Identify key points

 .Seeks a purpose
.Criteria development
.Choice in amount of work
.Choice in level of work .Choice of presentation
.Seeks links
.Determines part of process or content
.Reflects on decisions
.Uses resources independently (like dictionary)
.Justifies opinions
.Checks teachers / others work or ideas
.Suggests new ideas or alternative explanations
 .Awareness of learning approaches
.Language and common understandings
.Working out things for themselves
.Self esteem
.Learning from others
.Mind mapping
.Passive learning
.Links to reality .Understanding other points of view
.Subject based vocab. .Representing in other ways

.Getting started
.Getting unstuck
.Questioning
.Breaks down task
.Plans strategy before starting
.Following instructions

.Applies logic to different scenarios
.Contributes own ideas or beliefs
.Thinks of range of possibilities
.Anticipates
.Identifies what they need to find out
.Rephrasing questions .Extrapolates

 .Learning from mistakes .Checking / editing work .Different ways of having success
.Oral assessments
.Peer & self assessments .Placing importance of things that are not assessed
.Learning behaviour assessment
.Being able to redeem failure

(b) They develop tools that assist students to identify and analyse / discuss the good learning behaviours associated with particular activities
1. Questions / stems
2. Structured journal entries
3. Mind mapping
4. Checklisting
5. Rubrics
6. Good / poor learning characteristics tables
7. Role plays
8. etc

(c) Student Journals / comments / work examples - summaries of , anecdotal quotes etc are collated.

(d) Teacher journal - two types
1. One that relates to the activity / discussion (use bits of the general format)
2. Secondly their ongoing personal reflections about the project, personal growth etc

3. Documentation:
Documents (with common formatting) on classroom activities and journals are shared on our intranet and stored under "LEARNING ACTIVITIES" on this website. Learning activities are hyperlinked to:
- Discussion tools
-Student comments
-Teacher journals