Best Practice

Learning Rounds

Catriona Oates explains the basic principles of Learning Rounds and discusses the findings of her recent research into this popular and innovative CPD activity.

Quite simply, Learning Rounds are a new kind of collaborative professional learning. In essence it is an adaptation of the medical practice of clinical rounds, whereby clinical teams of mixed experience and expertise, from veteran to novice, share observations to arrive at an agreed assessment or diagnosis of a patient. 

In a very similar way, learning rounds involve teams of staff observing and learning about and from teaching practice across the school. 

Observers create a base of evidence describing what they have seen. The team then discusses how they, their school or authority will use the data to bring about improvement for learners. 

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