Learner Focused Conversations
Professional learning focused conversations are important in building shared understanding.
These carefully and deliberately crafted conversations that support leaders to explore teachers prior conceptions of practice while building deep pedagogical content knowledge through ‘interaction, negotiation and co-operation’. Professional learning conversations enable teachers and leaders to proactively self-regulate their practice, supporting them to develop ownership and responsibility for their own learning. The main purpose of these conversations is to promote leader and teacher learning that in turn promotes better outcomes for students.
Our highly experienced facilitators can coach you around developing your expertise, guiding you through the process of professional learning conversations, supporting you to build a culture in your school where focused learning conversations are the norm and relationships are able to be maintained, while competing views and tensions are explored.
We can help you to:
- develop learner focused conversations
- negotiate different tensions and viewpoints
- challenge the status quo
Why work with us?
Experts
We have experts with both the knowledge and experience so we can provide you with the most effective practices.
The Right Fit
We have a range of facilitators with different background and skills so we can match you with a facilitator who will be a great fit for your school.
Curriculum Knowledge
Our team have specialised knowledge in literacy and we have been working with teachers to improve their capabilities in the teaching for many years.
Solutions
We’ll work with you to identify your needs and to find the best solution that will meet your requirements.
Who can help?
Choose Your Region:
Gaylene Price (Christchurch)
Primary
Gaylene is leader and developer of ‘Team Approach to Language Learners‘ (TALL), a Ministry of Education project which supports small school teams to investigate the teaching and support of culturally and linguistically diverse learners
Expertise:
- Languages acquisition
- Literacy and English Language Learners
- Oral language
- Student assessment and pathways of progress
- Planning and teaching sequences
- Coaching and mentoring
- Inclusive Education
