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EDUCATE TOGETHER: MEASURING VALUES

EDUCATE TOGETHER: MEASURING VALUES. MOLLY O’ DUFFY, Ethos Development Officer Educate Together. Educate Together: Patron Body. 58 primary schools Ethos: Multidenominational Co-educational Child-centred Democratically run. Multi-denominational.

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EDUCATE TOGETHER: MEASURING VALUES

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  1. EDUCATE TOGETHER: MEASURING VALUES MOLLY O’ DUFFY, Ethos Development Officer Educate Together

  2. Educate Together: Patron Body • 58 primary schools • Ethos: • Multidenominational • Co-educational • Child-centred • Democratically run

  3. Multi-denominational • Children of all social, cultural and religious backgrounds have equal access to and rights within the school • Respect and acceptance • Not tolerance or accommodation

  4. Values • - Identity • - Human rights • - Diversity • - Justice • - Equality • - Dignity • “No child an outsider”

  5. Faith Formation • Ffosh • Formation • outside school • hours • Ffish • Faith Formation • inside school • hours

  6. Ethical Curriculum: Learn Together Programme • Strands: • Spiritual and Moral Development • Equality and Justice • Belief Systems • Ethics and the Environment • “Learn Together to Live Together”

  7. Co-educational and child-centred • All aspects of school are child-centred • Every child to fulfill potential

  8. Democratic Control • Parent led • Partnership • Students’ Council/Union • Modelling the ethos

  9. Ethos Self-evaluation • Clear and transparent • Considers the perspectives of all members of the school community • Helps schools improve • Self-evaluation by schools • Evaluates extent to which ET ethos lived out in school

  10. Ethos Self-evaluation Tool • Band Descriptors in relation to: • Governance, Leadership and Accountability • Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum • Culture, Relationships and the Environment

  11. Ethos Self-Evaluation Process: Pilot in Three Schools • Questionnaire to pupils, staff, parents and Board of Management • Facilitated workshops with above focus groups

  12. Pilot Phase 2010 • Surfaced issues re values: • Inclusion of all children • Respect for all partners • Equality of belief systems

  13. Future Plans • Eventual roll-out to all schools • Roll-out to 10 schools in 2011

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