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What are we learning about...? Facilitating learning networks

Subject: School-to-school support
Audience: Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers, School associate
Date of publication: June 2006   |   File format and size: PDF, 274 Kb

This practical development tool examines what effective facilitation of learning networks looks like in practice. It consists of two activities, with examples given for each.

The first focuses on six aspects of network activity that benefit from facilitation: planning, meaning, challenge, feeling, structuring and valuing. The second focuses on the practice of effective facilitation by:

  • identifying some of the enablers and barriers to effective facilitation in school networks.
  • describing some of the characteristics of the facilitation of collaborative learning in networked contexts.
  • providing an opportunity to challenge some assumptions about effective facilitation in networked learning situations.