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One CPD idea that works: Look, listen and learn!

May 2006

Ludiya Besisira, a Waltham Forest head teacher, says that by shadowing your fellow teachers, you can learn from and build on existing good practice.

Ludiya and her colleagues have found this to be an enjoyable, easy and effective way of sharing ideas, which saves them from constantly having to 'reinvent the wheel'.

Don’t forget to build in time for learning conversations before, during and after the shadowing. This will be a key factor in developing your practice, whether you are shadower or shadowed. You can find out more about ‘the learning conversation’ by reading the GTC leaflet about it.

Ludiya’s commitment to shadowing is echoed by David Hargreaves in his book Working laterally: how innovation networks make an education epidemic (DfES 2003). He says learning from colleagues is most likely to happen if it involves:

demonstration
explanation
replication (in a new context)
repetition; and
creative adaptation.

www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit/communication/workinglaterally

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