Learner-Centred Practice
Learner-Centred Practices motivate learners to improve their performance. Our research-validated 360º Assessment of Learner-Centred Practices (ALCP) measures the positive impact of current practice and provides a starting point for planned improvements.
Coaching for Reflective Practice is used by trained ALCP practitioners to help teachers to interpret their ALCP Feedback and select strategies to improve the domains of their practice they want to develop.
In Schools, Colleges
and Universities
Learner-Centred Practice focuses on the teacher’s practice with vivid help from a robust 360 degree assessment informed by your students and yourself. Feedback is supported by coaching conversations with an accredited practitioner.
Four Core Domains
of Learner-Centred Practice
Decades of research led by Dr Barbara McCombs in Denver USA has clarified what teachers do to motivate learners and improve their performance.
The four core domains are:
- Promoting positive interpersonal relationships
- Honouring student voice and providing challenge
- Encouraging higher-order thinking and self-regulation
- Adapting to individual differences
The research led to the development of the assessment instrument we use, it’s called the Assessment of Learner-Centred Practices or ALCP for short.
Benefits in Education
Learner-Centred Practice can help you:
- Improve your learner-centred practice
- Improve your students’ motivation to learn
- Develop positive interpersonal relationships
- Honour student voice
- Stimulate higher-order thinking
- Adapt to individual needs and interests
- Improve achievement and attainment
Who is it for?
Head Teachers and Teachers in schools and Heads of Department and Lecturers in higher education who want to improve the quality and effectiveness of pupil and student learning. Please contact us
The providers of school improvement and professional development services may want to include ALCP in their own range of services. More…
Learner-Centred Practice in Action
Here’s an illustration of the process we follow when we use the Assessment of Learner-Centred Practices (ALCP) to obtain your and your students’ perspective on your practice. The process is facilitated by an accredited ALCP practitioner.
Professional Accreditation
Teachers and improvement advisers in education and learning facilitators and coaches in the corporate sector may be interested in our professional learning and accreditation services. These include short one and two day workshops leading to recognised approval to use ALCP online assessments and use our supporting resources to improve learning in your own context.
Our professional accreditation also may lead to a Masters degree awarded by the University of Bristol.
Getting Started
To get started, we recommend a conversation to clarify your learning improvement goals and to discuss how ALCP can help you achieve them. Please contact us.
Optimise the Benefit with Integrated Solutions
Our services are based on a foundation of research and a common set of person-centred learning principles – it means our services work well together as integrated learning improvement solutions:
Use Learning Power to improve learning capacity, potential and growth
Use Authentic Enquiry to increase engagement, innovation and effectiveness
Use Learner-Centred Practice to improve the motivation and achievement of learners
Use Systems Leadership to create a culture of learning, improvement and achievement
For More Information
For more information or to discuss how we might help you improve learning in your context, please contact us.