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Working with your colleagues in a variety of professional, collaborative activities ranging from formal professional development days, working groups and peer observation to informal discussion and exchanges of practice will help you to find a model of learning for your pupils whilst finding out the factors that influence pupil learning. You can apply the insights you gain to your own learning. A secondary school CPD co-ordinator described this connection between teacher and pupil learning as ‘mirroring’. Another described it as learning with and from pupils, suggesting a shift in classroom culture in which learning is a shared activity. 
Your evidence
You might like to work with a trusted colleague to reflect on how far you currently learn with and from your pupils. You could observe each other’s lessons, focusing on an agreed aspect of your teaching. For example, you might like to watch each other’s lesson introductions and note whether the children:
After the lesson, you could ask some of the pupils to share their thoughts about the activity with you.
Moving forward Would you find it helpful to use what you have learned about your teaching to draw up a personal development plan that will help you to make changes to your practice? How might showing pupils that you are learning in partnership with them as well as a colleague help you to model learning?
Find out more
 You can find out more about factors that influence pupil learning on the TLRP Learning how to learn project website at: http://www.tlrp.org/proj/phase11/phase2f.htmlYou can find out more about how working collaboratively with colleagues can help you to change and improve your practice on the GTC’s Research of the Month website at: http://www.gtce.org.uk/policyandresearch/research/ROMtopics/cpdrom/ You can find out more further reading suggestions on the theme of CPD at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch17/nfr17.html |
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