Working/professional learning from home — Number 2 Overcoming barriers to progress

Go to the Barriers to Progress collection in the main HOW2 library. 

Scan through the questions. You are looking for questions that connect you to learning behaviours that stand in the way of your students making progress. You are looking for questions that ​‘ring true’ with you in terms of your teaching and the learning behaviours displayed by your students. Clicking on any of the questions that seem relevant to you will take you through to a set of HOW2s offering a range of teaching techniques that you can then consider as possible solutions.

Once you have browsed the descriptors you click through to techniques that you feel might work best for you in your subject with your students.

Once you have clicked through and had a look at the descriptors you may then want to look at a specific technique(s) in detail. Once you are happy that you have found a technique(s) that you think will help you overcome the identified barrier to progress, select the​‘considering it’ or ​‘working on it’ status for that technique depending…

This will tell everyone in your organisation that you are considering (or working on) this technique. 

You can use the notes feature to capture private reflections of how you get on adapting the techniques you are working on to your context. You can also use the notes feature to ​‘chat’ to selected colleagues, one or some of whom may have already have embedded the technique(s) you are considering or working on.

Remember the Skills Exchange serves to help you capture best practice, and it also makes it easy for you and your peers to offer or ask for support from each other… For example, a quick glance at the skills exchange will reveal which of your colleagues may have already embedded the techniques you are currently working on.

• Using HOW2s with Inspection Frameworks in mind