Using the specialism to raise achievement in core subjects

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Using the specialism to raise achievement in core
subjects

• Youth Sport Trust

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Aim of the session

• We hope you leave the session
• with more ideas about how the specialism can be
  used to raise achievement in core subjects
• with the beginnings of plans for implementing
  relevant interventions in your school

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Why is the issue of achievement in core subjects
important?

• Individual young person
• Qualifications and life skills
• Prospects and progression
• School
• Effect of core subjects
• Performance data
• OFSTED and re-designation
• Reform and review agenda

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Key questions and task 1

• What is it about sport and PE subjects and
  departments that young people enjoy and allow
  them to achieve?
• Which of these factors are transferable to other
  subjects? And what does this look like in this
  context?

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What do PE and sport provide for the core subject
curriculum

• Values
• Skills
• Pedagogy
• Motivational and relevant contexts
• Relevant and motivational role models

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Values Task 2- How does your school develop
these values and how are you building on these
attributes to increase achievement across the
school?

• Motivation
• Self-esteem
• Confidence
• Ambition
• Competition
• Rules / respect
• Fair play
• Behaviour
• Ethics
• Relationships with others
• Experiencing winning and losing
• Health and well being

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Task 2- How is your school developing these
skills and building on them to raise achievement?
Skills

• Observation
• Analysis
• Evaluation
• Motor skills
• Leadership and teamwork
• Communication skills
• Emotional / intrapersonal intelligence

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Pedagogy Task 3- How are you enabling and
ensuring departments share good pedagogical
practice with each other?

• Mentoring and coaching techniques
• Group / team work
• Art of demonstrating
• Practical / kinaesthetic learning approaches
• Competitive games-based approaches
• Goal setting and monitoring progress / targets
• Use of language

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Task 4- To what extent do your departments
collaborate to share an understanding of
different curriculum areas, avoid unnecessary
duplication or plan and deliver joint projects?
Motivating and relevant contexts

• Areas of study and topics for debate / discussion
• Physics
• forces, gravity, movement
• Chemistry
• materials, drug testing, weather
• Biology
• cardiovascular system, respiration
• Maths
• angles, time, statistics
• English
• autobiographies, reporting, media representation

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What do PE and sport provide for the core subject
curriculum

• Values
• Skills
• Pedagogy
• Motivational and relevant contexts

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Other ideas

• Using core subjects in PE (the other way around)
• using a sport, an event (2012?!) or sports
  areas
• Make generic raising achievement strategies
  specialism related
• Exam preparation
• Use of coaches / mentors
• Use of target setting/ data
• Use of rewards / celebrations
• Revision sessions / programmes
• Coursework assignments and strategies
• Anything that PE leads on ICT, AfL, display,
  environment, curriculum provision?

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Action planning

• Try to plan activities that match a need in one
  area and a strength in another
• Plan a sequence of activities over a long time
  scale
• Start small with low effort, high impact projects
  and progress to longer term interventions
• Start with the departments / people that are most
  likely to make a success of the ideas
• Consider carefully the way you sell the ideas
• The planning stage is THE most important stage.
  Make sure it is done collaboratively and has a
  realistic time scale associated
• Dont forget there are YST staff who may be able
  to support

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Action planning

• Use existing departmental / school action plan
  but ensure the following are included
• What is the overall objective?
• What activities are planned? (with timescales)
• Who is responsible for delivering and who is
  responsible for monitoring?
• What resources are needed?
• What (if any) additional support is needed?
• How are you going to measure success?
• How are you going to monitor interim progress?

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Action planning

• Simpler ideas to consider
• Leadership work
• Increasing the use of sporting contexts in
  lessons/ resources / assignments / topics / SOW
• Incorporating a core element into existing
  sporting events or specialism initiatives
• Joint projects
• More complex longer term
• Considering the pedagogical approaches used
• But remember that all projects can be made as
  simple or as complex as you like!