Please download our DTLC guide for more details and reflection questions that could be used in the DTLCs below:
Department Teaching and Learning Communities (DTLC) are at the core of our approach to developing and growing teaching and learning at Meden School. We have developed this ideas from Durrington School’s ‘Subject Planning and Development Sessions’. The idea behind them is very straightforward – once a term subject teams meet and discuss, what are we teaching over the next term and how do we teach it well? How are our learning principles being used in planning and lesson time?
We have adopted this approach because:
- It’s CPD within the context of the subject – modelling something effectively in PE is not the same as modelling something in science.
- It’s within the context of what they are teaching now – the work that is done in that sessions, will directly impact the teaching that takes place in lessons over the next fortnight.
- It encourages teachers to talk about their teaching and learn from others, especially when it comes to thinking about student misconceptions, mistakes and challenge.
- It’s not a one off event – the work that is done in each session, will be further developed in the next session in a fortnight, and then again in another two weeks and so on.
- It reduces workload – rather than everybody having to struggle together to plan the same sequence of lessons, why not plan it and share resources together?
