Week 3: Creating a learning organisation

1. Introduction to Week 3

Activity number	Title	Details	Time
3.1	What is a learning organisation?	Reflect on what it would feel like to be part of a learning organisation.	20 mins
3.2	Experiences of professional development	Consider your own experiences of continuing professional development and write a forum post	20 mins
3.3	Being an effective inclusive teacher	Using your experience to identify what it is that effective inclusive teachers need to know, understand and be able to do. Consider how this links to CPD	40 mins
3.4	What kind of professional development?	Use your responses to the previous activities to reflect on why traditional cascade models of professional development are not considered to be very effective.	20 mins
3.5	Example from practice	Read about and analyse an example of school-based teacher development	40 mins
3.6	School-based teacher development	Listen to an audio and make a forum post	20 mins
3.7	Resources for school-based CPD	Browse some resources to support SBTD and suggest how they might be adapted for your context.	40 mins
3.8	Monitoring inclusivity	Make a list of features you have used and contribute to the forum	20 mins
3.9	Monitoring tools	Use the tools to see how effective they are	30 mins
3.10	End of week assessment