Last summer I interviewed for an aspirational post at Wellington College, I was not successful and came away disappointed and bouyed by the feedback. As a result of the experience I added two new blogs to my RSS reader and two new follows to my Twitter account. The blogs and Twitter accounts of experienced, thought geographically disparate, schools leaders Andy Schofield and Greg Whitby. Both blogs offer education food for thought, and Andy still offers the occasional tweet response of support and my unsuccessful application to Wellington Academy continues to development my leadership perspective and challenge my thinking. For example;
Inquiry is about open-ended questions – moving from having the right answer to being comfortable asking the right questions.
We are seeing that high performing systems are committed to teacher and student inquiry. Teachers learning about student learning and students learning through discovery.
Most recently I have taken a greater interest in the questions teachers and students ask, as a measure of the quality of learning and teaching, and less in the answers students give. This has been a shift in my lesson observation focus and how I define the quality of the lesson and learning taking place. Do you concur? Disagree?
PS I also follow Tom Whitby. Another fantastic school leader and professor of education.
Sorry Greg.
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Thanks for the link to my blog – you may want to change Tom to Greg!