Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Jonathan Rix.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Course image

Courtesy: Caroline Rix

Readings

Activity 2 Reading: Adeola Folasade Akinyemi, Symphorosa Rembe, Jenny Shumba & Toyin Mary Adewumi | (2019) Collaboration and mutual support as processes established by communities of practice to improve continuing professional teachers’ development in high schools, Cogent Education, 6:1, 1685446, DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2019.1685446 https://doi.org/ 10.1080/ 2331186X.2019.1685446

Activity 3 Reading: Alma Harris and Michelle Jones (pp 38/39) in Connecting professional learning: leading effective collaborative enquiry across teaching school alliances. National College for School Leadership https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/ government/ uploads/ system/ uploads/ attachment_data/ file/ 335719/ Connecting-professional-learning-leading-effective-collaborative-enquiry-across-teaching-school-alliances.pdf © 2012 Alma Harris and Michelle Jones, published by the National College for School Leadership

Activity 3 Text 1: Instructional Rounds 3 September 2015 https://education.gov.scot/ media/ gijjneew/ sacfi12b-instructional-rounds.pdfEducation Scotland 2015 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence/ version/ 3/https://education.gov.scot/ terms-of-use/

Activity 4 Reading: THE CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES OF INCLUDING STUDENTS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: BUILDING AND SUSTAINING CHANGE Katherine Cohen Volin special Issue 1 Journal of Ethical Education Leadership 2018 https://jecel.scholasticahq.com/ article/ 37375.pdfhttps://jecel.scholasticahq.com/ about

Activity 5 Reading: Lofthouse R, Thomas U. Concerning collaboration; teachers’ perspectives on working in partnerships to develop teaching practices. Professional Development in Education 2015. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Professional Development in Education on 28-07-2016 http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/ 19415257.2015.1053570CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Deed |

Activity 6 Reading: Swaffield, S. and Major, L., 2019. Inclusive educational leadership to establish a co-operative school cluster trust? Exploring perspectives and making links with leadership for learning. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23(11), pp.1149-1163. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/ items/ 62e30f51-65bb-4390-be19-2d00a9c0194d

Activity 7 Reading: Wouter Schenke, Jan H. van Driel, Femke P. Geijsel & Monique L.L. Volman (2017) Closing the feedback loop: a productive interplay between practice-based research and school development through cross-professional collaboration in secondary education, Professional Development in Education, 43:5, 860-880, DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2016.1258654

Activity 8 Reading: Keranen, N., & Encinas Prudencio, F. (2014). Teacher collaboration praxis: Conflicts, borders, and ideologies from a micropolitical perspective. PROFILE Issues in Teachers’ Professional Development, 16(2), 37-47. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.15446/ profile.v16n2.39994

Figures

Figure 2: being a part? courtesy Jonathan Rix

Figure 4: Connect to learn method page 13 in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/ government/ uploads/ system/ uploads/ attachment_data/ file/ 335719/ Connecting-professional-learning-leading-effective-collaborative-enquiry-across-teaching-school-alliances.pdf

Figure 6: Does it matter? courtesy: Jonathan Rix

Figures 8/9: Obstacles in pyramid of in Charalampous, C.A. and Papademetriou, C.D., 2021. Intermediate inverted leadership: The inclusive leader’s model. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 24(3), pp.349-370. DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2019.1623925

Figure 10: Process of teacher collaboration for implementation of change. (Nguyen & Ng, 2020) adapted from Nguyen & Ng, 2020 Teacher collaboration for change: Sharing, improving, and spreading. Professional Development in Education, 46(4), pp.638-651.

Figure 11: You ignored the Elephant in the Room, so I traded him in: Cartoonist: Bannerman/Xunise/Konar/Lawton/Patrinos/Piro Cartoonstock.com

Videos

Activity 3 Video 2: Learning walks: what are they? https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=d2jY6D0VcEsCourtesy: opogo.com

Activity 3 Video 3: Learning walks: structured observation for teachers

https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=AUTIIOfma90Edutopia https://www.edutopia.org/

Activity 3 Video 4: Lesson study: a powerful approach to improve teaching https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=JMiRIRro86Ecourtesy: Lesson Study Alliance https://www.lsalliance.org/

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Don't miss out

If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses.