A Learning And Responding Matrix
ALARM is a progression of learning skills that help us learn how to learn.
ALARM brings a clarity and order to the learning process through a common metacognitive language and guides all learners from content to concept level learning skills. Through collective teacher efficacy, ALARM builds an effective learning community with a transferability of learning skills from subject to subject and year to year.
Instructors
Founder
Max Woods
Max is an experienced educator that created the ALARM system in Australia. Max came to Australia in 1973 after teaching in California. It was as an ESL teacher that Max founded the ALARM system and since then he has trained over 4000 teachers across Australia to bring clarity to teaching and learning.
Senior Instructor
Frank Pikardt
Frank Pikardt is a former school Principal and ALARM instructional leader. His extensive experience in leading collective teacher efficacy gives him a unique perspective in sharing with other leaders how ALARM can be best implemented in various educational contexts.