The “C” Word Geoff Barton Friday, May 18, 2018

Self-evaluation x 2

EVALUATION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT THREE GURUS Carol FitzGibbon (Durham): Get data into school life, without necessarily doing anything with it

EVALUATION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT THREE GURUS John MacBeath (Cambridge): “We should measure what we value, not value what we can measure”

EVALUATION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT THREE GURUS David Reynolds (Exeter): “Within-school variation”: Aim to be a ‘high-reliability’ organisation …

EVALUATION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT Such complex social organizations as air traffic control towers continuously run the risk of disastrous and obviously unacceptable failure. The public would heavily discount several thousand consecutive days of efficiently monitoring and controlling the very crowded skies over Chicago or London if two jumbo jets were to collide over either city. Through fog, snow, computer-system failures, and nearby tornadoes, in spite of thousands of flights per day in busy skies, such a collision has never happened above any city, a remarkable level of performance reliability …

EVALUATION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT … By contrast, in the U.S., one of the most highly educated nations on earth, within any group of 100 students beginning first grade in a particular year, approximately 16 will not have obtained either their high school diploma or a General Education Development certificate 12-13 years later. In Britain, just under half of all 16-year-old pupils will not have the benchmark of 5 or more high grade public examination passes in the national system. Obviously, many nations have even lower levels of educational performance.

Routine monitoring …

Planners

Book sampling…

What is it like to be a tutor here? Focus groups run by Governors… What is it like to be a tutor here? Good bits of the job: Frustrations: Good Year Teams Good communication with Year Team Trainees are helpful Role will be strengthened by learning plans / target-setting days Lack of time Amount of admin Always dealing with the same students

What is it like to be a tutor here? What impact do you have on students and how do you know? Informal feedback from students – eg a disruptive student who admitted privately that he wants to do well Seeing decreasing number of referral slips Can feel a sense of progress How would we improve? Year 12 mentoring can be inconsistent – role of mentors not always clear – but principle of them is good Small minority – importance of planners not recognised by students/parents

What are the key ingredients in an effective tutor? Heads of Year … What are the key ingredients in an effective tutor? Know and care about students in their tutor groups See monitoring and target-setting as a core part of their job Understand the need to work with students on skills beyond the classroom – emotions, motivation, social skills, courtesy, how to speak appropriately in difficult circumstances Are well organised and manage time well Listen actively Pay attention to small details – courtesy, thanks, etc Treat poor behaviour as simply a choice and good behaviour as a characteristic Apologise when they do something wrong or inappropriate Catch students being good far more than they catch them getting it wrong Have genuine interest in students’ lives and experiences

Faculty reviews

Student Evaluations …

Student …

Attitudes to learning

What for you is the most important ingredient in a good lesson? Enthusiasm of teacher Fun Good class control No disruptive students Practical activities Teacher interested in the subject Sitting with a friend Clear instructions and expectations

What do teachers do that helps you to learn well? Talk less and let us get on with work Teaching us techniques for learning and revising Practice papers Explain things clearly Acknowledge different kinds of learners Praise us Basic ideas about how to do things Providing lunchtime sessions Teach me in a way that I understand

What one thing would you do to improve this school? Longer breaks More trips Don’t give coursework at the end of term Tougher line on disruptive students More guidance with coursework Stop giving detentions for trivial reasons Smarter uniform Regular teacher evaluations by students Clone Mr Green Be more relaxed about uniform and jewellery New headteacher Hotline to support students who are struggling Shorter lessons Bus to Newmarket Longer lessons Fewer questionnaires! Don’t have such high expectations of students

Parent Evaluations …

EVALUATION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT The essential skills of good teachers EVALUATION FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT What do you think are the 3 most important ingredients of good teachers / tutors …?

Eg: Essential Literacy

Lesson observation

Performance management: So tell me about the 3 lessons you have observed over the past year and what you learnt from them

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