Learning Review
Over the last five years TLO’s Principal Consultants have observed practice in an average of classrooms each year. Such visits have nothing to do with Ofsted; they are requested by schools and take an in depth look at the current use of learning habits and classroom practice. The reviews help teachers to see what they are doing at the moment that is effective so that change can be built on current practice. The review findings are used to help the school plan their way forward.Learning Reviews have proved to be important events in any school’s learning journey. At the start of the journey a review identifies starting points and ways forward. Further on in the journey reviews are used to gauge progress or plan development in another area of the school. Some schools have returned to a Learning Review after a four or five year journey in order to re-evaluate progress and measure its impact on both teaching and learners. Increasingly Learning Reviews are commissioned by Learning Communities as they seek an objective picture of learning across the community on which to develop a robust community plan.
Learning Reviews are substantial undertakings. They are conducted with a designated learning team of colleagues from within the school across two days (secondary schools). In some schools the learning team includes students. This way of working builds the school’s self-evaluation capacity and placed a different emphasis on classroom observation; observation FOR development rather than OF development.
Download A typical learning review report (anonymised)
