Question for teachers
1. Does the culture of our school
nurture the learning of everyone?
2. Do the learning tasks set for students
provide the right level of challenge?
3. Does everyone have opportunities to
reflect on the nature, skills and
processes of learning?
4. Are students provided with feedback
that helps them improve their work?
5. Do the physical and social spaces in
our school stimulate and celebrate
learning?
6. Do we actively try to create an
environment in which it is safe for
students to take risks, cope with
failure and respond positively to
challenges?
7. Do teachers in our school respond
positively to challenges even where it
means taking risks and dealing with
failure?
8. Do we use tools and strategies in our
school which enhance thinking about
learning in classrooms?
9. Do we use tools and strategies to
support professional learning in our
school?
Questions for students
1. Does the way that we do things in our
school support the learning of
everyone?
2. Do the learning tasks our teachers
give us really make me think?
3. Do we have opportunities to think
and talk about how we learn?
4. Do our teachers give us feedback that
helps us to improve our work?
5. Does our school’s design – the
buildings, rooms and other spaces –
help us to learn?
6. Do we know in our school that it is OK
to make mistakes or not succeed at
something because we can learn from
this?
7. Are our teachers able to try out new
things and is it OK if they don’t all
work out?
8. Do the teachers in our school use a lot
of different activities to help us think
about the way we learn?