On 29th October Yvonne McBlain led the second training meeting for our newest cohort of Falkirk Teaching for Deep Learning programme facilitators. There are 20 facilitators from 13 schools – 11 primary establishments and 2 secondary.
All of these teachers have chosen to make their development of the facilitator role part of their professional learning for the next two sessions. Most of them are choosing to challenge themselves by taking on a distributed leadership role for their school colleagues. Some are helping build their whole school community and supporting their school improvement plan by using the programme as collaborative whole staff development.
After training session 1, the facilitators used the TfDL Glow group (click to visit) and their private facilitator group to complete follow up tasks. One of these was to say which TfDL session they would like to get to know/experience first. The majority decision was session 9 – Teaching for Deep Learning in an Active and Engaging Way. Click here to view the power point presentation for this session, and here to see hand out 1.
Yvonne was excited to hear how the facilitators are already using the programme with colleagues. They are enthusiastically applying their knowledge and experience to support colleagues with their ongoing quest to improve classroom practice. Our vision is to move Falkirk schools from good to great!
After our second meeting I felt much more confident with taking TfDL forward in my school. I have spoken to the staff within my school and have a large group of teachers who are interested in taking part. I aim to deliver my first session in January and will prepare this in the coming weeks.
I think this is going to be successful within our school as many teachers miss the TLC’s and see this as a way to keep discussion and proffessional dialogue going between staff within a supported group.