Professional learning conversations: Adaptive expertise for schools. Supplementary digital materials

School leaders face complex challenges, that typically have multiple causes and often persist despite everyone’s best attempts to address them. Addressing complex challenges requires juggling both the big picture, and the specific parts of the challenge. Without a roadmap, this process is fraught and unlikely to succeed in improving outcomes. In order to make a difference, schools need adaptive expertise; a skill which can be learnt through professional conversations and inquiry. In Leading professional conversations, Emeritus Professor Helen Timperley deftly outlines the key enablers for effective professional conversations – relationships, resources, processes, knowledge and culture – which support teachers to be independent learners and result in positive impact on educational, social and emotional outcomes for students. Featuring examples from real conversations between school leaders and educators, and practical templates which can be adapted to suit the contexts of your school, Leading professional conversations is the school leader’s guide to thinking and acting evaluatively, knowledgeably, metacognitively, collaboratively, responsively and systematically, to engage in deep professional learning and genuine improvements in practice. This document contains the supplementary templates and other materials mentioned throughout Leading professional conversations. The resources support chapters in the book and can be printed and used to support your professional conversations, particularly in the planning and analysis phases

Le développement professionnel des enseignants et ses effets positifs sur les apprentissages des élèves

En Nouvelle-Zélande, une attention grandissante a été portée par les décideurs politiques au développement professionnel des enseignants et à la façon dont il améliorait les résultats des élèves. Cette approche permet de développer des pratiques d’enseignement collaboratives, en plaçant les enseignants dans une position d’enquêteur de leurs propres pratiques. Les programmes de développement professionnel ont des effets réels sur l’amélioration de la réussite des élèves dans le domaine de la littératie, notamment en lecture. Ils permettent aux enseignants de mieux identifier leurs besoins de formation à travers une analyse des difficultés des élèves et la mise en œuvre de procédures d’évaluation efficaces.In New Zealand, decision makers are more and more focusing on teachers’ professional development and the way it improves student learning. This approach allows to develop collaborative teaching practices, asking teachers to inquire about their own practices. Professional development programmes have real effects on the improvement of students’ assessments in information literacy and particularly reading. They allow teachers to better identify their professional training needs from an analyses of their students’ difficulties and by setting up efficient assessment procedures.En Nueva Zelanda, los responsables políticos otorgaron una atención cada vez más importante al desarrollo profesional de los docentes así como lo hicieron respecto a la manera mediante la cual éste mejoraba los resultados de los alumnos. Este enfoque permite desarrollar prácticas de enseñanza colaborativas, poniendo a los docentes en una postura de investigadores sobre sus propias prácticas. Los programas de desarrollo profesional tienen verdaderos efectos en la mejora de los logros de los alumnos en el ámbito de la literacia, en particular en la lectura. Permiten a los profesores una mejor identificación de las necesidades de formación a través un análisis de las dificultades de los alumnos y la realización de procedimientos eficientes de evaluación.In Neuseeland haben sich politische Entscheidungsträger zunehmend für die berufliche Entwicklung der Lehrer und für die Art und Weise interessiert, wie sie die Leistungen der Schüler verbessern kann. Diese Herangehensweise ermöglicht die Entwicklung der Praktiken in Zusammenarbeit, indem sie die Lehrer zu Beobachtern der eigenen Praktiken macht. Programme zur beruflichen Entwicklung haben tatsächliche Auswirkungen auf die Verbesserung des Schülererfolgs im Bereich der Informationskompetenz (literacy), vor allem was das Lesen angeht. Sie erlauben dem Lehrer, den eigenen Fortbildungsbedarf besser zu identifizieren durch eine Analyse der Schülerschwierigkeiten und die Umsetzung effizienter Beurteilungsprozeduren

Increasing frailty is associated with higher prevalence and reduced recognition of delirium in older hospitalised inpatients: results of a multi-centre study

Purpose: Delirium is a neuropsychiatric disorder delineated by an acute change in cognition, attention, and consciousness. It is common, particularly in older adults, but poorly recognised. Frailty is the accumulation of deficits conferring an increased risk of adverse outcomes. We set out to determine how severity of frailty, as measured using the CFS, affected delirium rates, and recognition in hospitalised older people in the United Kingdom. Methods: Adults over 65 years were included in an observational multi-centre audit across UK hospitals, two prospective rounds, and one retrospective note review. Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), delirium status, and 30-day outcomes were recorded. Results: The overall prevalence of delirium was 16.3% (483). Patients with delirium were more frail than patients without delirium (median CFS 6 vs 4). The risk of delirium was greater with increasing frailty [OR 2.9 (1.8–4.6) in CFS 4 vs 1–3; OR 12.4 (6.2–24.5) in CFS 8 vs 1–3]. Higher CFS was associated with reduced recognition of delirium (OR of 0.7 (0.3–1.9) in CFS 4 compared to 0.2 (0.1–0.7) in CFS 8). These risks were both independent of age and dementia. Conclusion: We have demonstrated an incremental increase in risk of delirium with increasing frailty. This has important clinical implications, suggesting that frailty may provide a more nuanced measure of vulnerability to delirium and poor outcomes. However, the most frail patients are least likely to have their delirium diagnosed and there is a significant lack of research into the underlying pathophysiology of both of these common geriatric syndromes

Building professional capability in school improvement

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INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION Teacher Professional Learning and Development

The International Academy of Education (IAE) is a not-for-profit scientific association that promotes educational research, and its dissemination and implementation. Founded in 1986, the Academy is dedicated to strengthening the contributions of research, solving critical educational problems throughout the world, and providing better communication among policy makers, researchers, and practitioners