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This unit adopts the principles of LfL within its curriculum and pedagogy: creating the conditions for learning at a pace, time, and level of interaction of your own choosing. | This unit adopts the principles of LfL within its curriculum and pedagogy: creating the conditions for learning at a pace, time, and level of interaction of your own choosing. | ||
You will have opportunities for discussing | You will have opportunities for discussing and sharing ideas about your learning and the learning experience. | ||
LfL is not something that can be implemented or done-to a school or imposed on a person. LfL provides a framework that creates an opportunity for change; for expanding leadership capacity in schools and improving the quality of learning. | LfL is not something that can be implemented or done-to a school or imposed on a person. LfL provides a framework that creates an opportunity for change; for expanding leadership capacity in schools and improving the quality of learning. | ||
This unit is presented in 7 sections or sessions. You can work through each at your own pace. | This unit is presented in 7 sections or sessions. You can work through each at your own pace. | ||
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Leadership for learning is happening all around you. | Leadership for learning is happening all around you. | ||
If you know what to look for you will see elements of LfL in schools | If you know what to look for you will see elements of LfL in classrooms and schools, in your own community, and even in the setting in which you might be doing this unit! | ||
You may be wondering, ''“If Leadership for Learning is all around me already, why am I doing this unit?”'' Well … the short answer is that even though the LfL principles are common attributes of many classrooms and whole schools, they are not present, coordinated or sustained at levels that support consistently positive learning effects. | |||
The aims of this session are to: | The aims of this session (5.1) are to: | ||
* Explore a metaphor for describing how we can start to ‘see’ Leadership for Learning in classrooms and schools | * Explore a metaphor for describing how we can start to ‘see’ Leadership for Learning in classrooms and schools | ||
* Identify and explore the 5 LfL principles | * Identify and explore the 5 LfL principles | ||
* Watch a teacher in action, and | * Watch a teacher in action, and see if some or all of the 5 LfL principles can be identified. | ||
== Practical: Seeing is believing == | == Practical: Seeing is believing == | ||
