Links The Journey to Excellence Curriculum for Excellence Future

1. JTE and CfE • Links • The Journey to Excellence • Curriculum for Excellence • Future Think! journeytoexcellence.org.uk

2. JTE and CfE • Links

3. Legislation, policy SSS Act; ASL Act, GIRFEC, MCMC, CfE Connections, coherence

4. Working with people – and permeating Outcomes of A Curriculum for Excellence Teaching for effective learning Strategies relating to Assessment for learning Permeating - Working with people Permeating – Inclusion, Success for all, MCMC, GIRFEC

9. JTE and CfE • The Journey to Excellence

10. What do you think excellence is?

11. caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical expecting more than others think is possible

12. How good is our school?: The Journey to Excellence How good can we be? journeytoexcellence.org.uk

13. Focusing on values helps: Behaviour Achievement Educate the whole child Schools to be good places to be

14. What is the most important thing a human being can do?

15. USING:journeytoexcellence.org.uk Become familiar with the resource, contents, structure Professional Development Packs and developing your own Movie clips in talks –make suggestions for adding to them Improvement planning (search JTE for ‘grid’) Discussing pupils’ learning and staff CPD Sources of best practice: places, people, published research

16. It was great that it became better, but it would have been better had it become great. Mollehave Great The great challenge Great at what? Good

17. Learning

18. What is learning?

19. Thinking and learning in the classroom curriculum?

20. journeytoexcellence.org.uk Mainstreaming ‘projects’

21. Modeling the world and dealing with it What is thinking? • Manipulating information • Forming concepts • Problem solving • Reasoning • Making decisions

22. What about critical thinking? Analysis Evaluation Discernment • discriminating • being objective • understanding • perceiving

23. making sense of the world • big picture • creative • feedback - data, language What kinds of thinking? So, ask interesting questions

24. Why are 1998 pound coins worth more than 1997 pound coins?

25. Do birds have lunchtimes?

26. What matters in teaching • Ensure collaboration • Provide challenge • Make concepts explicit • Make learning active & engaging • Develop well-paced lessons with high levels of interaction • Support independent learning • Build in feedback and reflection • Share expectations and standards Teaching approaches

27. journeytoexcellence.org.uk It’s the classroom, stupid!

28. The big ten classroom factors? • having a positive attitude • the development of a pleasant social / psychological climate in the classroom • having high expectations of what pupils can achieve • lesson clarity • effective time management • strong lesson structuring • the use of a variety of teaching methods • using and incorporating pupils’ ideas • using appropriate and varied questioning [Reynolds: highreliabilityschools.co.uk]

29. JTE and CfE • Curriculum for Excellence

32. CfE levels

33. Challenge (and CfE levels) Higher order learning skills Consolidating Applying

34. BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMYCreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.EvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judgingAnalysingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationshipsComparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, findingApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executingUnderstandingExplaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explainingRememberingRecalling informationRecognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding Higher-order thinking

35. Literacy: Learning language Thinking tools Thinking! Learning! Numeracy: Thinking about, understanding and relating to the environment Wellbeing: Care, participation recognition, motivation Wellbeing: Emotional factors Resilience

36. journeytoexcellence.org.uk Literacy, numeracy, thinking

37. CfE and JTE • Future

38. 20th Century to 21st Century • Interactive ….. Participative • Stable ….. Agile • Subjects ….. Projects • Delivered wisdom ….. User generated • One size fits all ….. Personalisation • National ….. Global • One to many ….. Peer to peer • Curriculum-centred…..Learner-centred TED.com

39. Trends • More old people than young • Competition for well educated people • Technology accelerates everything • Millennium generation – solutions • Generation E – stability, security • Learning, re-learning, re-learning • No status quo – disruptive innovation • Choices based on ethics and values • Personal search – portfolio of beliefs • Preparing for future jobs that don’t yet exist

40. journeytoexcellence.org.uk The E generation

41. Innovative and creative • Able to cross boundaries • Adaptable and flexible • Analytical and critical in thinking • Can problem solve • Personal development • Technologically literate

42. STARS analysis Strengths Treats Allies Radicals Successes

43. Leadership for learning – children’s views It’s more fun to colour outside the lines. Ask ‘Why?’ until you understand. Make up the rules as you go along. It doesn’t matter who started it. You sometimes have to take tests before you finish studying. If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse. Keep knocking till someone opens the door. You can’t ask to start over when you’re losing.

44. journeytoexcellence.org.uk Thank you!