SCRIBO PLD
Language of Learning (LOL)
Strengthening Classroom Dialogue, Deepening Student Thinking
In an AI-rich world, obtaining quick answers has become effortless. What truly sets learners apart today is their ability to question, reason, explain, challenge, connect ideas, and think independently.
Language of Learning (LOL) by EDconnect is a practical, evidence-informed professional learning experience that equips educators with deliberate tools for classroom dialogue, questioning, and language structure. Rather than asking teachers to start from scratch, LOL strengthens the language and questioning sitting inside the lessons you are already teaching.
Language of Learning - Course Information
Why EDconnect for Language of Learning PLD
- Decades of Proven Expertise: Driven by expert PLD designers and an extensive network of educational associates.
- Grounded in the Science of Learning: Built upon explicit teaching, manageable learning steps, guided practice, retrieval practice, and progressive independence.
- Aligned with the Revised Curriculum: Enhances oral language, knowledge building, inquiry, and critical thinking across all learning areas.
- Zero Extra Workload: Designed to work within existing lesson plans, units, and priorities without creating another initiative or add-on project.
- Immediate Practice Transfer: Equips teachers with concrete tools—such as the Question Ladder, Levelling Up strategies, and the LOL Practice Transfer Tool—ready for immediate classroom use.
What is Language of Learning?
Language of Learning is a pedagogical approach designed to unlock the curriculum at year level by analyzing students’ language capabilities and matching questioning demands accordingly. It shifts the classroom dynamic from teacher-led questioning to learner ownership, empowering students to generate, refine, and pursue their own questions.
The Four Levels of Questioning Framework
At the heart of LOL is a simple yet powerful framework that shifts classroom discourse from surface-level recall to deep critical thinking:
- LOOK AT IT (Surface Thinking): Focuses on noticing, naming, identifying, and recalling key information.
- TALK ABOUT IT (Descriptive Thinking): Focuses on describing, comparing, categorising, and explaining ideas.
- THINK ABOUT IT (Analytical Thinking): Focuses on connecting, sequencing, predicting, inferring, and analysing concepts.
- RATIONALISE IT (Deeper Thinking): Focuses on justifying, evaluating, reasoning, creating, and solving complex problems.
Unlike traditional taxonomies that risk grouping students by rigid levels, LOL helps teachers tailor questioning to match and stretch a student’s current language level—ensuring high cognitive challenge without removing necessary support
What Are These Courses?
EDconnect offers flexible, highly practical PLD packages—ranging from intensive single-day staff workshops to supported 12-month school-wide implementation pathways. Each course is designed for immediate classroom application, leaving teachers with actionable tools rather than theoretical concepts.
Course Overview & Offerings
1. Full-Day LOL Professional Learning Workshop
Target Audience: All teachers across all year levels and curriculum areas. Ideal for Teacher-Only Days or whole-school PLD.
Delivery Format: A 1-day, fully facilitated professional learning experience delivered on-site at your school or at an EDconnect venue.
Key Focus:
- Understanding the role of language and explicit teaching in building deep comprehension.
- Mastering the Four Levels of Questioning and the shift toward learner ownership.
- Hands-on application using the LOL Practice Transfer Tool to strengthen an existing lesson or unit.
- Strategies to maintain high cognitive challenge while supporting oral language development.
2. The LOL Impact Leader Pathway (12-Month School-Wide Pathway)
Target Audience: Schools seeking sustainable, school-wide change, led by 1–2 nominated internal change leads and supported by leadership.
Delivery Format: A 12-month supported implementation journey featuring 4 leadership workshops, ongoing coaching, and ready-made staff learning packages.
Pathway Structure:
- Step 1: Full-Day Workshop: Baseline training for staff, followed by 4–6 weeks of classroom trial.
- Step 2: Four Leadership Workshops:
- Workshop 1: From Great Practice to School-Wide Change — Identifying wins and embedding LOL into existing planning.
- Workshop 2: Leading the First Staff Learning — Preparing leads using ready-made facilitation decks.
- Workshop 3: Moving from Staff Meeting to Classroom Practice — Supporting implementation through coaching and walkthrough tools.
- Workshop 4: Sustaining and Embedding LOL — Progress review and long-term planning.
What Schools Receive:
- 3 individual coaching sessions across the year plus group check-ins/clinics.
- 3 complete staff-meeting packages (slides, facilitator notes, teacher handouts).
- Classroom walkthrough and observation tools, Question Ladder resources, and student voice prompts
How Language of Learning Transforms Schools
- For Teachers: Provides simple, high-impact strategies to elevate classroom dialogue without increasing lesson preparation time.
- For Students: Transforms passive listeners into active thinkers who can articulate reasoning, analyze complex ideas, and generate their own meaningful questions.
- For Schools: Establishes a consistent, shared language for thinking across all year levels and departments while driving sustainable, curriculum-aligned growth.