For the past six years, schools around the world have been working with the Looking for Learning process; all with the same goal: to identify, improve and increase learning in the classroom hour by hour, day by day. Here is what some of these schools say about Looking for Learning:
The Looking for Learning Toolkit has helped us to radically re-haul our focus on learning; the way we structure our meetings, our pedagogy, the way we observe learning, the way we view our teachers as learners too. As a school we already had a learning-centred mindset when we started working with the Looking for Learning Toolkit, but what it has done is help us to significantly deepen that mindset.
Chris Walton, Headteacher, Woodlands Primary School, Leeds
The Looking for Learning process has helped me move from a teacher centred classroom to a student centred one, to modify my curriculum and behaviour, to focus on what is important and relevant and enhancing to student learning and to let go of what is not.
Looking for Learning turned out to be the most inspiring, motivating and worthwhile professional development initiative I have ever been involved with, perhaps anywhere in my teaching career.
Dawn McMaster,
American International School of Johannesburg
We sustain Looking for Learning because of the powerful learning that we have experienced and observed.
Sandy Chin,
International School of Bangkok
I truly believe that the work that you and your colleagues at Fieldwork are doing in Looking for Learning is crucial to moving schools into the right direction. Reminding educators of the real focus of our core business of 'learning' can be a daunting experience. We so often get caught up in the 'teaching and managing' aspects of our work and forget our prime directive.
Gail Seay,
American School of Doha
The impact of Looking for Learning has been profound. There's engaged, enthusiastic, empowered learning happening everywhere you go.
Di Christopher,
Sandown Primary School, England
Is Learning Really Going On?
The American School of Doha is a rapidly growing school with a wealth of new and sophisticated facilities. But recently, through the Looking for Learning process, the staff asked themselves one tricky and very brave question: amidst all these fantastic facilities is learning really going on?
Here is what they have to say:
What do head teachers say about Looking for Learning
Martin Skelton interviews Maddie Hewitt Head International School in Johannesburg
What has looking for learning done for her school?
How has the programme been received by Maddie starting as a new headteacher in charge of a school where Looking for Learning was already in place?
What is Maddie's favourite thing Looking for Learning brings?
Martin Skelton interviews Mike Horton, Head of the British School of Chicago
Impact of Looking for Learning on Mike
Impact of Looking for Learning on the British School of Chicago
What Mike likes most about Looking for Learning
Recommendation to other schools