Metacognition involves the understanding of how we learn as individuals. Metacognition is more important than we may think. I ask participants to consider what they need within their own practices that may help them understand what to look for and connect with when they are in the session. As a principal, I used to flip faculty meetings to focus on learning, and sending out an article or blog to read is part of that process. I always sure that I send a letter to participants before workshops with a blog or article to read prior to attending the session. That is where metacognition enters into the situation. All of this sounds like a good thing, but if people don’t know why they are in a workshop, they may not be able to spell out what they want to learn there. However, I also ask for the success criteria of the participants. In order to help people make connections to the work, I always begin with the use of success criteria ( watch this YouTube video on the topic ), so participants understand what they will be learning. Although this may sound like an anomaly, the reality is that there are many educators sitting in workshops and keynotes wondering why they are there. It’s hard to develop a shared commitment when you don’t even know why you’re in the room. “We were called the empowerment team by our principal.” When pressed a bit further to try to get some level of understanding, I asked if the team was the school’s instructional-leadership team.
LEARNING ON THE JOB JOBS SERIES
When asked why they were taking part in the series of workshops, all of them answered that they didn’t know. What was interesting from the first hour we were together is the fact that one team had no idea why they were there. The schools represented were high poverty, mostly public, with one charter school represented.
LEARNING ON THE JOB JOBS FULL
The series of workshops, based on the book I wrote with the same title, is an opportunity for these teams, some new, some veteran, to work together for two full days each month over a three-month period. Collective leader efficacy is a shared commitment that school leadership teams can have a positive impact on student learning. Last September, five school leadership teams came together for a six-day intensive workshop series focusing on collective leader efficacy.
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