Founding Director of Learning Cultures, Glynis Frater explains how building a culture of professional learning in schools will help resolve issues with recruitment & retention.

1. Creating a Culture of
Learning
Glynis Frater
Learning Cultures Limited

2. BuildingaWorldClassProfession
Some of the headlines linked to ensuring a world class profession as
part of a future vision for educators
• Accountability is about outcomes not methods
• Teachers should be able to innovate and build their own strategies in
order to ensure pupils achieve their full potential
• The promotion of a self – improving school led system
• Multi academy trusts will be made accountable for their
performance
• Networks to promote school to school support and local innovation
• National Leaders of Education to provide school to school support
• An increase in the number of teaching schools

3. Are youlisteningcarefully?
Research suggests that we only hear 40% of
what we are listening to?
How much passive listening takes place in
your day to day interaction with learners,
peers or colleagues?

4. How do youlearn?
Research suggests that deep learning is
much more likely when learners
understand how they learn
To what extent is the emphasis on what is
to be taught rather than what and how well
the recipient learns?

5. How do youknowlearning is takingplace?
Research suggests that learning requires
the active and constructive involvement of
the learner
How much discussion, collaboration,
sharing and verbalising of goals and ideas is
a distinct part of the learning process in
your day to day working life?

6. Howdoyouencourageparticipationandcollaborative
learning?
Research suggests that where learners
work together there is a deeper
understanding of how they can overcome
barriers to learning and manage change
effectively
How is outstanding learning and teaching
modelled, shared and disseminated so that
there is a deep understanding and
consensus of what works well. How does
collaborative learning create opportunities
for innovation?

7. Howisreflectionusedtoallowlearnerstogrowandachieve
theirfullpotential
Research suggests that learners need to know how
to plan and monitor their own learning and set their
own learning goals in order that they can reflect on
their successes, strengths and gaps in their learning
and then plan the next steps
What opportunities are there for learners to reflect
with others on how they solved a problem,
developed a new strategy or made a successful
change in order to evaluate progress and set new
learning goals and targets?

8. Professionaldevelopment,reflectionandlearning
Developing a coaching
culture
Learning the skills of
powerful questioning,
active listening and the
ability to influence
others to change
Creating
opportunities for
reflective learning
conversations to take
place
Promoting the sharing
and cascading of good
and outstanding
practice
Build on the positives
and celebrate
outstanding teaching
and learning

10. CPD and the future
• Educators need to believe in the value of their professional
status and their contribution to the success of this country
• Teachers and their leaders are influential in the education of
all other professionals
• The teaching profession is currently the only profession that
does not have a mandatory responsibility for their own
professional development in order to retain their status
• There are significant and well researched opportunities to
develop a model of self sustaining, cost effective CPD linked to
coaching and reflective practice that will build a more
motivated and informed profession
• Success is built on a culture of positive change, the sharing
and cascading of good and outstanding practice and
opportunities for self-evaluation

11. Contact details
Glynis Frater
Learning Cultures Limited
01746 765076 / 01746 769523
Mobile: 07974 754241
glynis@learningcultures.org
www.learningcultures.org