In Conversation with Dr Lipscome by

Validity and Design of Classroom Assessment in Teacher Teams

edspll — 2022-05-10 21:52:58 UTC

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-021-00437-9

School Middle Leadership: A Systematic Review

edspll — 2022-05-10 21:54:42 UTC

Evaluation

edspll — 2022-05-11 06:57:45 UTC

Middle Leadership: A partnership in teaching and learning

edspll — 2022-05-11 06:59:29 UTC

Understanding collaborative teacher teams as open systems for professional development

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:00:06 UTC

Middle Leadership - Conversation with Kylie Lipscombe

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:01:21 UTC

facilitation

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:32:31 UTC

really clear and practical overview of facilitation styles - how easy do you think it would be for ML to learn these skills?

Effectiveness of facilitation Q

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:34:37 UTC

Kylie, what do you see as being the relationship between confidence and self-awareness of middle leaders and effectiveness of facilitating which you've described? There can often be a pressure on middle leaders to be expected to 'know' all the answers which links to Stephen Katz around imposter syndrome.

Making Assumptions

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:35:40 UTC

The importance of not making assumptions - asking those questions to ensure clarity and shared understanding. Often we miss this section to move onto the work...but time spent clarifying is crucial.

Facilitation Reflection

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:35:43 UTC

Fascinating reflections on facilitation. How often do we really explore the role of facilitators? Thinking on times as a facilitator I have been "too expert".

Reflection from CLD colleague

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:36:16 UTC

In the world of Community Learning & Development we use peer evaluation a lot in our practice with teams and partnerships.

Facilitation Reflection

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:37:31 UTC

Facilitation - it's interesting how we can have difficulty structuring such sessions when we should be doing it at least 4/5 times a day for our young people

Facilitation as social-emotional support

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:39:23 UTC

These questions support a coaching approach to conversations...

Challenging conversations...

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:39:49 UTC

Respectfully challenging opinions can be difficult and is one of the things I have always worked hardest on (pre ML roles as well) as some can become immediately defensive, which is absolutely not the intent- it's always to inform and move forward.

Facilitation is great teaching?

gaidhligguleor — 2022-05-11 07:46:27 UTC

It strikes me from my experience how poor many middle leaders are when it comes to facilitating the collaboration they should be able to do quite naturally as they should be doing similar things in classrooms 4-5 times a day with young people. Perhaps they aren't doing so? Although some might say there are slightly different stresses working with adults, I'd say we should reflect these democratic practices at all levels. What would you say around how to use co-operative learning to help develop facilitation?

Listening as a strength...

edspll — 2022-05-11 07:48:03 UTC

I always viewed that I do more listening rather than talking as a negative but your words have made me think that this might actually be a strength.

How do we support middle leaders to be able to focus on the benefits of middle leadership and not end up as the 'go-between' for practitioners and senior managers. That takes input and agreement from all parties. Everyone has their own 'agenda', so how can we support middle leaders to use their influencing powers to get the best for everyone?

cldstandardscouncil — 2022-05-11 07:51:19 UTC

klipscom2 — 2022-05-12 00:11:04 UTC

Reflection

2024-03-12 19:27:33 UTC

The 5 key characteristics are good to take away to understand the role and to further critique. One of the main difficulties I have noticed with the role is that Middle leadership can become a 'broker' between teachers vs senior leaders in a school to nursery teams via management etc. It was interesting to read and reflect on this.