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' Ensure every child succeeds: provide an inclusive education within a culture of high expectations. ' - Mike Furbank, Senior Adviser
A modest proposal for all schools.
(Those inspected in summer 2006 are exempt, unless they want to celebrate!)
Objectives:
- To support schools in evaluating the impact of 'Excellence and Enjoyment' and the Teaching and Learning Materials (Affirming the Good).
- Supply schools with external objective evidence for the Self-Evaluation Form.
- To allow schools an opportunity to showcase their best practice and support the embedding/dissemination of that practice.
- To create a celebratory report identifying the range of practice from within schools and where that practice is inextricably linked to work within the Local Authority.
For instance: Creative Contexts, Effective Learning and Teaching, Making Maths Magic, Healthy Schools, 'Can Write Won’t Write', ICT/Interactive
Whiteboard developments, Schools Councils, National Strategy Support, SEALs, CAD/CAM, Pcame, Let's think!, Quality Mark, ICT Mark, Continuity
of Learning, innovative practice in the deployment of staff following PPA and workforce reform, and others too numerous to mention.
Methodology (A Menu Rather Than Prescription)
- One half day visit per school.
- Discussion with Head Teacher.
- Learning walk.
- Observation of excellent/best practice.
The visit is to be contracted carefully with the school - a preparatory letter was sent out before the end of the Easter holidays.
The structure of the visit will be different in each school but the focus remains the same.
Record of Visit and Activity
- To be written for all visits- clear proforma/template.
- E & E Headings from our principles paper.
- The school chooses which of these headings to focus on.
Comment on the evidence that schools:
Ensure every child succeeds: provide an inclusive education within a culture of high expectations.
Build on what learners already know: structure and pace teaching so that students know what is to be learnt, how and why.
Make learning vivid and real: develop understanding through enquiry, creativity, e-learning and group problem solving.
Make learning an enjoyable and challenging experience: stimulate learning through matching teaching techniques and strategies to a range of learning styles.
Enrich the learning experience: build learning skills across the curriculum.
Promote assessment for learning: make children partners in their learning.
- We are evaluating the impact of the identified practice.
- Where possible we give illustrative examples of work to make the final report live and breathe.
Report
External collation and writing of summary overview report, funded by the Primary National Strategy.
For more information please contact:
Mike Furbank, Head of Improvement and Learning
Tel: (01482) 392402
E-mail: mike.furbank@eastriding.gov.uk
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