Eight+-+Learning+Forward

= Learning Forward ~ Reflecting, Revising and Celebrating Together =

//What do you now know? What was easy? Challenging? Surprising? Or an unexpected delight? What are lessons learned? What advice would you give for NEXT time?//


 * Metacognition** - the practice of thinking about thinking - revealing what is known and not known YET. Metacognition can be used an effective learning path for knowing yourself; your capacity to learn; the processes successfully used or not; and concepts now understood or not. Reflective Practice yields higher quality learning and results.


 * Collaboration** - If learning really is a social process (75% of learning is informal), then collaboration accelerates what is known and understood along with the capacity to transfer to other situations. In recent years, learning has been reconceptualized from an additive process characterized by an individual's acquisition of knowledge to a socially-enabled developmental process.

Reflective practice with others can be useful at the beginning of designing the task - during implementation process or at the closing of projects to develop summative, lessons learned. Consider calling together colleagues when. ..

**a.** ~ inventing new tasks / processes / learning experiences **b**. ~ experiencing difficulty with the work **c.** ~ a stopping point has been reached **d.** ~ additional minds (thinkers new to the work) could help move it forward **e.** ~ gathering what you now know to apply to NEXT or future events - learning forward



AM Topics

 * Go-Arounds
 * Bragging Wall of Us!
 * Project Management Survey
 * Dialogue Circles
 * //Name - School - Project PLUS Lesson Learned//
 * //Had I Known//
 * //Surprises? Unexpected Delights?//
 * Reflective Practice - Metacognition ROCKS
 * Power of Collaboration
 * Learning Forward
 * Fine-Tuning Protocol ~ Fishbowl Practice
 * Tuning Rounds

PM Topics

 * Tuning Rounds
 * Collaborative Tools
 * Lessons Learned

Tools Used Today
• MicroBlogging a la [|Today's Meet]

Resources

 * Student Achievement Through Staff Development ~ Joyce & Showers
 * Bernajean Porter's Wiki for Participatory Web 2.0 Tools
 * The Role of a Google Jockey
 * Informal Learning Studies - Marcia Connor
 * Fine Tuning Protocol ~ Reflective Practice w/ Critical Friends (adults & students)
 * Developing Blogs as Reflective Practice for Adults ~ Slideshare
 * Using Student Blogs as Reflective Practice ~ Slideshare
 * Reflective Practice ~ Ideas and Resources
 * Cooperative vs Collaborative Learning ~ Created by Teresa Rafael
 * Enabling Student Collaboration for Learning
 * Grading in Collaborative Classrooms
 * Create a Culture of Collaborative, Leading and Learning, Nov 2010 - See summary chart below of BIG IMPROVEMENTS made in ONE year through implementing reflective, collaborative cultures for professional development in North Carolina Schools.