IMPLEMENTATION.
IMPLEMENTATION.
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In order to translate the wealth of ideas built into the WalkThrus toolkit into improved teacher practices and habits in the classroom, it’s essential to have a coherent plan of action. Our five-step implementation plan is informed by our extensive field experience supporting schools with this vital work.
DOWNLOAD | Leadership Planning Guide.
Our brand-new interactive implementation guide takes leaders through each design decision, step by step. With worked examples, planning templates, checklists and strategic guidance, it provides everything you need to develop and implement an effective WalkThrus programme. Click the image to download.
DOWNLOAD | WalkThrus 'Route One' Guide.
Our Route One guide offers leaders a clear, directed pathway for implementing WalkThrus. With recommended design decisions, worked examples, planning tools and fully resourced training materials, it provides everything you need to launch and sustain a coherent WalkThrus programme. Click the image to download.
1 | DESIGN YOUR PD CYCLES.
1 | DESIGN YOUR PD CYCLES.
Set up calendared meeting structures and lesson visit routines allowing PD activities to happen on a sustained basis within the time constraints present in your context.
Identify the configuration of people and teams who will work together in coaching cycles. Establish the full schedule of coaching cycle meetings in the calendar, ideally with only 2-4 weeks between inputs. Without these structures, sustained PD and coaching can’t happen.
Guidance for delivering a programme of effective PL sessions.
Lay the groundwork for an effective coaching programme.
Six core design decisions for school leaders.
Five key checks to help see it through.
Whole-organisation, team and individual streams of PD.
Guidance on flexible coaching arrangements.
2 | DIAGNOSE YOUR LEARNING PROBLEMS.
2 | DIAGNOSE YOUR LEARNING PROBLEMS.
Before you focus on techniques, take time to evaluate the range of key learning problems your students experience.
Explore The Learning Model and key theories of learning so deliberations are evidence-informed. Use lesson visits, student data and teacher discussion to identify common learning problems in curriculum areas or across the school.
WalkThrus and their underpinning model for learning.
Ensuring focused discussion before and after lesson visits.
Generating feedback using video.
Protocols for coaches and team leaders visiting lessons.
Collecting useful information from the classroom.
Three simple questions to unpack complexity.
3 | IDENTIFY YOUR TEACHING SOLUTIONS.
3 | IDENTIFY YOUR TEACHING SOLUTIONS.
Use the WalkThrus Resource Hub to identify a set of core techniques that are designed to solve the learning problems identified.
Use the Cluster Builder, Core and Common Clusters and Problem–Solution tools to help curate a set of techniques around which to focus your PD and coaching.
Ensure that the clusters you create directly address the common learning problems you need to tackle.
Solve the problems students encounter with their learning.
Combining WalkThrus techniques using our online tools.
Helping teachers to spot, understand and solve problems.
Five common challenges for coaches to prepare for.
Five more common challenges that all teachers face.
A powerful framework for goal setting.
4 | LAUNCH YOUR TRAINING.
4 | LAUNCH YOUR TRAINING.
Run training sessions for teachers that build a shared understanding of The Learning Model and its implications, the role of WalkThrus in PD, and a set of core techniques with the Theory, See It, Name It, Do It approach.
For coaches and middle leaders, focus on using the coaching process effectively, including how to conduct lesson visits, and feedback meetings.
Key ideas about how learning happens for teachers.
Exploring the mechanisms that make coaching effective.
A structure for delivering training workshops.
Our five-point ADAPT approach explained.
A model training session in action.
Rolling out a curriculum to build coaching capacity.
5 | INITIATE & SUSTAIN YOUR COACHING PROCESSES.
5 | INITIATE & SUSTAIN YOUR COACHING PROCESSES.
Run the cycles that you have designed, ensuring the time is always safeguarded.
Use the WalkThrus Coaching Process to guide your whole approach. Follow the guidance around each of the five elements ensuring your lesson visits and meetings form iterative feedback loops.
Review progress in solving the learning problems and refocus your training and coaching as needed in light of the assessment of progress being made.
Our five-step model for coaching.
Bambrick-Santoyo's popular feedback model.
Aligning pedagogical knowledge and subject knowledge.
Using an online platform to support effective coaching.
A rapid, WalkThrus compatible model for CPD.
Tailoring coaching effectively with individual teachers.
RESOURCES & TOOLS.
Additional tools and checklists to support implementation.
DOWNLOAD | Leadership Planning Guide.
Our brand-new interactive implementation guide takes leaders through each design decision, step by step. With worked examples, planning templates, checklists and strategic guidance, it provides everything you need to develop and implement an effective WalkThrus programme. Click the image to download.
DOWNLOAD | WalkThrus 'Route One' Guide.
Our Route One guide offers leaders a clear, directed pathway for implementing WalkThrus. With recommended design decisions, worked examples, planning tools and fully resourced training materials, it provides everything you need to launch and sustain a coherent WalkThrus programme. Click the image to download.
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