1. Designing
the
Junior
Program
North
Surrey
Secondary
March
1st,
2011
Faye
Brownlie
&
Leah
Christensen

2. 21st Century Learning Skills
• CriBcal
thinking
• CollaboraBon
• Problem
solving
• Rotherham
&
Willingham,
2009

3. How
the
world’
best
performing
school
systems
come
out
on
top
–
Sept.
2007,
McKinsey
&
Co.
1. GeRng
the
right
people
to
become
teachers
2. Developing
them
into
effecBve
instructors
3. Ensuring
that
the
system
is
able
to
deliver
the
best
possible
instrucBon
for
every
child

4. McKinsey
Report,
2007
• The
top-­‐performing
school
systems
recognise
that
the
only
way
to
improve
outcomes
is
to
improve
instrucBon:
learning
occurs
when
students
and
teachers
interact,
and
thus
to
improve
learning
implies
improving
the
quality
of
that
interacBon.

5. • Coaching
classroom
pracBce
• Moving
teacher
training
to
the
classroom
• Developing
stronger
school
leaders
• Enabling
teachers
to
learn
from
each
other

6. Individual
teachers:
• Become
aware
of
areas
to
grow
in
their
pracBce
• Gain
an
understanding
of
best
pracBce
–
most
effecBve
when
demonstrated
in
an
authenBc
seRng
• Are
moBvated
to
improve
– Teachers
have
high
expectaBons
– Share
a
common
purpose
– Have
a
collecBve
belief
in
their
ability
to
make
a
difference

7. • How
the
world’s
most
improved
school
systems
keep
geRng
be]er
– Mourshed,
Chijioke,
Barber
– McKinsey
&
Co.
– Nov.,
2010

8. Good
to
Great
Systems
• Focus
on
the
professionalism
of
teachers
• The
values
and
behaviors
of
the
educators
propel
the
system
forward
(not
centrally
controlled)
• Develop
common
language
about
the
craa
of
teaching
• Teacher
and
administrator
coaches

9. Great
to
Excellent
Systems
• Learning
communiBes:
peer-­‐led
support
and
accountability
• Focus
on
student
learning
• Move
to
school
and
teacher
self-­‐evaluaBon,
away
from
standardized
tests
• Open
up
classroom
pracBce
–
de-­‐privaBze
• AcBon
research
• CollaboraBve
pracBce
among
educators
• Encourage
innovaBon
in
teaching

10. Model
Guided practice
Independent practice
Independent application
Pearson
&
Gallagher
(1983)