BRAVOLesson white paper – A guide on how to implement a systematic approach to improve teaching

Leads to concrete improvements in teaching already during the first term

This guide is for schools, school districts and municipalities. It is about the core of school improvement: focus on improving teaching through lesson observations, collaborative learning and effective feedback to teachers.

It contains a plan that leads to concrete improvements in teaching already during the first term. A plan for how to implement systematics during two academic years with the goal of developing both teaching, student results and job satisfaction.

The guide deals with the key challenges for systematic ways of providing feedback to teachers:

  • Trust
  • Time & Priorities
  • Evidence-based systematics
  • The quality of the feedback

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2.12 Leadership in the classroom – an observation form by Marcus Samuelsson

BRAVOLesson initiates cooperation with Marcus Samuelsson, leg. teacher in craft and professor of education at the University Högskolan i Väst, Trollhättan Sweden. Marcus has researched the leadership of the classroom. Now we offer a package with his new evidence-based observation form in combination with three copies of his book Lärandets ordning och reda.
Price for the whole package 3,740 SEK per school, excluding VAT and shipping. The observation form can then be used in BRAVOLesson.
Click the button below for a sample of what it contains.
The basis of observation has the following elements: 1. Procedures, rules and procedures,
2. Relationships, 3. Teaching climate,
4. Expectations and motivation as well
5. Disciplinary interventions.
NOTA BENE! This only show parts of the first element.

Teacher leadership in the classroom – New BRAVOLesson partnership with Professor Marcus Samuelsson

Successful teachers manage to both teach their students to learn and to develop both knowledgeably and socially. Research shows that this success is the result of these teachers’ carefully planning, implementing and reviewing their teaching –classroom leadership.
Marcus Samuelson, leg. teacher in craft and professor at Högskolan i Väst, has researched successful leadership in the classroom. He has recently published a book with practical guidance for classroom leaders. He states there is always a leader in the classroom, if it´s not the teacher, then students take over that role.

New evidence-based observation form
Marcus and BRAVOLesson have now released a new evidence-based form for lesson observations and feedback to teachers. A tool that helps to develop teaching by focusing on the key characteristics of successful classroom leadership.

Package of three copies of the book and
the observation form inside BRAVOLesson
BRAVOLesson is now starting a collaboration with Marcus Samuelsson and together with him we offer a package with the new observation form in combination with three copies of the book Lärandets ordning och reda.
The observation form can then be used inside BRAVOLesson.

Check out parts of the observation form

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Now we open the classroom doors! Stockholm 26/4

Welcome to our national conference on the most untapped opportunity for Swedish schools…to increase job satisfaction and improve student results via feedback to teachers.

The conference’s main focus is on how teachers, school leaders and principals work systematically to develop teaching. This is to help students achieve their goals. It will also cover how to work with collaborative learning and lesson observations. Furthermore, additional focus will be paid to practical research and how national initiatives support for systematic career development in schools.

You are not born to a good teacher. Good teachers develop over time on their own and together with collaboration. The teaching profession is an art that becomes better and better over time. It is about having a degree as a base and then: experience, feedback, training, observing other skilled teachers, absorbing new insights from research, experimenting, developing personal experience, further feedback and training.

In other words, systematic observations, documentation and shared reflection are building structures for developing learning which is one of the most important assignments for leadership.

But only 11 percent of teachers in primary and secondary schools receive feedback on their teaching according to a Novus 2016/2017 study. An OECD survey TALIS (by 2013), found that 32 percent of teachers in Sweden have never received any feedback on their teaching.

Target audience: teachers, principals, decision makers, researchers and authorities.

Location: Musical, Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, i.e. the premises of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music where the Nobel Prize award ceremony took place in the early 1900’s.

Date: 26/4 kl. 08.30 – 17.00.

Panel participants: Johanna Jaara Åstrand, Lärarförbundet (Teacher Union), Åsa Fahlén, Lärarnas Riksförbund (Teacher Union) and Matz Nilsson, Skolledarförbundet (School Leadership Union) will all be participating in the conference.

Organisers: Foundation DIU, Future Learning and BravoLesson/Successful Schools

Contact persons: Peter Becker, DIU, contact number: 070-710 4453 and Mats Rosenkvist, Successful Schools, contact number: 070-957 4780

Fee: 3,950 kr including coffee, lunch and documentation (excluding VAT). Register two or more participants at the same time from the same school/organisation and the fee is reduced SEK 3,450 kr. Price from 180403 is SEK 4,950 and 4,450.

Limited number of seats available.

Read more about the conference and sign up your team here.

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