What processes, structures and systems are needed to develop quality pupil learning and reduce varia

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What processes, structures and systems are needed
to develop quality pupil learning and reduce
variability of practice within departments and
across a school within a Local Authority?

• Julie Roberts
• Gateshead LA

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What the workshop intends to do
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The AfL action research projects

• National Strategy funded pilot
• Started in September 2004
• Involves ten secondary schools, five primary
  feeder schools, one college
• Set up 10 networks Head teachers (1)
• Teachers (4)
• Senior Leaders (1)
• Specialist groups (3)
• Steering group(1)
• Each network meets at least once a term.
• Builds on work already going on in
• the LA

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4 components for sustainable school improvement
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Vision for teachers

• To develop critical reflection on professional
  practice
• To update teachers on recent, significant
  research findings
• To work with departments to move forward on AfL
  work. The intention is to give this work a
  sharper focus and be more systematic about the
  action research process.
• To develop collaboration, teacher confidence and
  expertise through enquiry/ action research
• To build on the work in primary schools
• To develop good practice to be disseminated.

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4 components for sustainable school improvement
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Processes, structures and systems so far
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School Network Map
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School Network Map
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Questions evolving
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It now takes a bit more time to get something,
whereas in the past it had taken no time to get
nothing. Gary, Secondary School teacher
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Secondary school
Developing a quality pupil learning through the
use of AfL

Structure Phase 1 2005
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Teacher TLC 2 teachers per school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Senior Leader TLC
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
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Multi level Network Structure Phase 4 2008
Specialist groups
Secondary school

Cohort 1 2005-2008
SLT
Transfer and transition
2 teachers per school
Cohort 2 2006-2008
Secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school
Senior Leader
Steering group
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Cohort 3 2007-2008
BRAVE Now LIVE
Cohort 4 2008
Developing a quality pupil learning through the
use of AfL
T L groups in most schools
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Skills needed for personal success in 21st
Century

• Be able to communicate orally at a high level
• Know how to work with others in a team
• Know how to evaluate information critically
• Take responsibility for and be able to manage
  ones own learning
• Know how to work with and without close
  supervision
• Develop the habits of effective learning
• Be resilient in the face of difficulties.

2020 Vision