ASSESSMENT & PROGRESSION: Where are they and How do we move them forward?

1. ASSESSMENT & PROGRESSION:Where are they and How do we move them forward? Lynn Barrett TFPL March 2007

2. Who do you think you are and What is your job? Facilities ICT Policy & Planning Human Resources Resources Finance Sound Management Practices Library’s role in the Learning process

3. A catalyst for learning - Inclusion ICT asa teaching and learning tool Information Literacy The Library as central to learning Reader Development Collaboration Sound management practices Creating an effective learning environment Understanding learning

4. Looking at Learning

5. Looking at learning

6. Looking at learning

7. Looking at learning

8. Research Findings • Process of note taking aids understanding • Research consists of accessing sites, reading text, taking notes, writing up in own words • Selecting and categorising relevant information difficult • Synthesis the most difficult skill. Don’t know what to leave out • Heavy reliance on criteria and teacher direction • Perception that the only difference between research at KS4 and Post-16 is the number of sources used LSDA funded research with AVCE students, Dixons CTC, 2004

10. Assessing Skills Progression

11. Personal Learning and Thinking Skills Framework 11-19 • Independent enquirers • Creative thinkers • Reflective learners • Team workers • Self-managers • Effective participators

12. Progression and impact - What skills do you need? School Libraries Work!

13. Professional Standards for School Librarians Professional Values and Practice • Collaboration with teaching colleagues • Reflective practice • Development of reading culture • Positive contribution to whole school ethos • Contribution to pupils’ personal development & achievement • High expectations of positive values, attitudes and behaviour

14. Professional Standards for School Librarians Knowledge and understanding • Curriculum • Independent and lifelong learning skills • Reading for pleasure • Literacy development • Current educational agenda • Transition • Inclusion • Resource management • ICT across the curriculum

15. Professional Standards for School Librarians Teaching and learning • Lesson planning and delivery • Learning styles • Differentiation • Information literacy • Assessment for learning • Creative and effective learning environments • Behaviour management • Resource delivery • INSET delivery

17. Managing change The hardest thing to change is yourself. Mal Danks The best way to predict the future is to build it. Douglas Adams