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With you in mind, the NEI supports ways to position continuous improvement directly into your daily practice, and to use research based processes to transfer knowledge and skills when learning occurs externally.
To embed adult learning into the classroom is the quintessential act of Professional Learning. New research, technologies, teacher and student needs, requires that learning to be ongoing. When executed effectively, embedded, cyclical learning becomes an essential and core aspect of the modern educator’s professional identity. The NEI commits to ways your continuous improvement may be woven directly into the fabric of your daily practice and to use research based processes of knowledge and skills transfer, when it is not.
When learning occurs outside of the workspace, peer coaching is the vehicle by which new knowledge and skills transfer and embed into your practice.
The NEI uses the Actionable Knowledge Model, comprised of Action Research and Action Learning, to facilitate embedded learning for education professionals.
The Actionable Knowledge Model inserts critical and transformative learning actions into your classroom and brings your experiential discourse and shared results into the Professional Learning hub of the National Educators’ Institute.
“A systematic enquiry done by teachers or other individuals in education settings to gather information about and subsequently improve the ways their particular educational setting operates, how they teach, and how well their students learn.” - Mills
“A small group iterative process that places doing and reflecting at the center of problem solving and learning,” and bringing about change. This change can be for the education professional, their immediate learning environment, or whole school. - The Learning Center
When learning occurs away from the school environment, the NEI uses research based processes of knowledge and skills to transfer to support the implementation of your new learning into your classroom.
When learning new concepts, teachers benefit from practical engagement. Simulated classrooms provided an interactive space for educators to engage in targeted practice of new skills and to build confidence with new methodologies under the guidance of credible experts.
Topic Studies adopt the four components of the Joyce and Showers Training Model. During topic studies educators incrementally progress through each component to master new pedagogy, methods, and skills in simulated classroom experiences.
Awareness
Conceptual Understanding
Skill aquisition in simulated learning environment
Apply learning & skills to workspace
Joyce and Showers indicate that when learning occurs outside of the classroom, peer coaching heightens the transfer probability of that learning into the classroom. The Triad Peer Coaching Model is the support vehicle by which education professionals cooperate to transfer new learning from the NEI into the classroom.
Invites coach to observe live or recorded lesson.
Listens, reflects, discusses.
Facilitates triad meeting; note taker; timer
Watches or observes live/recorded lesson.
Asks knowledge building questions; Provides descriptive feedback.
In the professional learning context, knowledge communities occur when education professionals, with shared interests, gather to improve reflection and practice by providing feedback, collaborating and finding new solutions to problems (Seaman, 2008). The NEI uses multiple ways to build a national professional learning knowledge community.
Any planned group discussion of a particular text … as a means of furthering professional understanding of a specific subject or phenomenon. (Blanton, 2014). When possible, this involves hearing from the authors.
2. Book Reviews, Literary Essays, and Curations
2. Informal Conversations
3. Professional Conversations with the Author
Get ready for your journey of professional growth and transformative learning with the NEI. Be open to embracing these three actions to start and to sustain a successful NEI experience.
an active learner mindset. Be ready for learning where you make meaning of knowledge and practice skills with colleagues
questions you, as a dynamic educational scholar, can research in your classroom or explore in professional conversations
with diverse education professionals from all types and levels of schooling. Discover learning and peer coaching partners.
Join the NEI today and embark on a transformative journey that will shape your professional career and positively influence the future of education in Bermuda.
