SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL
Imagine a school or preschool where leaders and teachers jointly drive their improvement work based on a research method – especially designed for school development! Development leaders manage the choice of focus, educational design, data collection and analysis of effects. Teachers are quickly and easily involved in testing and documentation. For 10 years, researchers at Chalmers have designed a popular model for just this. The research method is described in the book “Den vetenskapande läraren” and is already used by about 200 school principals around Sweden, as well as by the Swedish National Agency for Education.
The testing takes place in three stages:
1. DESIGN DEVELOPMENT ACTIONS
Responsible development leaders design some common teaching actions. Actions that are expected to lead to a higher quality of teaching.
2. FOLLOW EMPLOYEES’ LEARNING
All teachers try out the actions in their everyday life and then reflect in IT support on the results they have seen. This is done individually in depth via free text and effect indicators. Everyone receives written feedback from responsible development managers.
3. ANALYZE THE OUTCOME
Development managers easily compile an analysis material, which shows which actions have had which effects and why. The material is discussed together in the college.
Our customers apply this research method mainly to reach further in school development, to concretize the collegial learning, and for practical, systematic quality work.
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SWEDEN’S MOST POPULAR IT SUPPORT FOR SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT
LoopMe is a cloud service specially adapted for collegial learning and improvement work. The school’s oral tradition is supported here with documentation in a social media-inspired interface that invites professional written conversations and captures expertise in action. The tool favors collegial learning without being burdensome and contributes to strengthened systematics, structure, and analysis, which gives persistence in school development and stronger effects.
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ALL SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT IN ONE PLACE
By collecting the development work in LoopMe, the school’s development team can lead and follow the improvement work at a detailed level, see what effects the efforts create and how they are experienced by the staff. It will also be easy to switch up from individual to group and school level.
FOCUS ON EFFECTS IN TEACHING
LoopMe clarifies which teaching actions should be tried and makes visible the effects they have in the classrooms. Teachers are supported in deepening their learning through individual reflections on their teaching and its impact on children’s/pupils’ learning.
OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION
LoopMe streamlines current state analyzes and strengthens the unit’s systematic quality work. This facilitates the school management’s work with strategy and vision and streamlines the documentation.
LoopMe is used today by hundreds of school leaders and teachers for broadened input and increased personal responsibility in the improvement work.
