1. Essential pieces The jigsaw of a successful school Professor Tim Brighouse

2. SUCCESS not failure
MULTIFACETED not general
INCLUSIVE not exclusive
IPSATIVE and FORMATIVE not normative
LIFELONG not once and for all

3. Teachers TALK about teaching
Teachers OBSERVE each other teach
Teachers plan, organise and evaluate TOGETHER
Teachers TEACH each other

4. “Our language makes the school.” “The school is a beautiful place.”
The corner pieces
“We share values, a vision of the future and we enjoy telling stories.”
“Our language makes the school.”
“The school is a beautiful place.”

5. The corner pieces “We try to do things right in our school.”
“In our school we sing from the same song sheet.”
“Our teaching, learning & assessment.”
“We try to do things right in our school.”
“In our school we sing from the same song sheet.”
“Our teaching, learning & assessment.”

6. The straight-sided pieces
“We develop all our staff.”
“We listen and involve our pupils.”
“Are we data rich and information poor?”

7. The straight-sided pieces
“We practise learning walks.”
“We are fussy about appointments.”
“We understand and welcome change, because change is learning and that’s our business.”

8. Managing complex change=
Skills
Incentives
Resources
Action
Plan
CONFUSION
Vision
ANXIETY
RESISTANCE
FRUSTRATION
TREADMILL
CHANGE
Adapted from Knoster, T. (1991) Presentation at TASH Conference, Washington DC
(Adapted by Knoster from Enterprise Group Ltd.)

9. The wiggly pieces
“We value and involve our parents and the community.”
“We make our school personal. Every child and adult matters here.”

10. A piece that dropped on the floor?
“We communicate, collaborate, and are creative.”

11. School effectiveness School improvement Punctuation
Nouns and adjectives
School improvement
Verbs and adverbs
Leading
Managing
Creating an environment
Teaching, learning and assessing
Developing staff
Reviewing
Involving parents and community
Punctuation
Butterflies

12. Outstanding teachers Beliefs
Transformability rather than ability of children.
All children can succeed.
Intelligence is multifaceted and each intelligence can be developed.
Children’s failure to learn is not a sign of a lack of ability but is a challenge to teaching.
Children making great efforts to learn is an indication of their character not of their lack of ability.

13. Outstanding teachers Habits and behaviours
Hope, optimism, enthusiasm and energy.
Learning is a cooperative activity.
Tell good stories.
Are expert questioners.
Provide an example of learning themselves.

14. Outstanding teachers Habits and behaviours
Have an infectious enthusiasm for what is taught.
Are creative about curriculum and pedagogy.
Are generous.
Are unpredictable in teaching.
Teach outside the classroom.

15. New skills and understandings
Understanding of the global system.
Movement of capital, people culture
Capacity to think creatively within disciplines.
Beyond the textbook
Ability to tackle problems and issues that do not respect disciplinary boundaries.
e.g. AIDS, large scale migration, global warming

16. New skills and understandings
Knowledge and ability to interact civilly and productively with individuals from quite different cultural backgrounds.
Both within one’s own society and across the planet
Fostering of hybrid or blended identities.
Fostering of tolerance/respect.