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Raising Attainment in English and Maths: Leadership, Data, and Student Leaders

This presentation focuses on leadership issues, using data to monitor and motivate, utilizing student leaders, and tackling problems in the classroom. It also provides guidance on how to develop student leaders in both Maths and English, including breakdowns of explanations, avoiding shortcuts and tricks, and building proportional reasoning skills.

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Raising Attainment in English and Maths: Leadership, Data, and Student Leaders

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  1. ‘Both’, not ‘Either’:Raising Attainment in English AND Maths Geoff Barton & Julia Upton Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk (Presentation 82)

  2. Leadership issues • Using data to monitor and motivate • Using student leaders • Tackling the problem class / teacher

  3. Using Data

  4. Leadership issues • Using data to monitor and motivate • Using student leaders • Tackling the problem class / teacher

  5. Student Leaders: Maths

  6. Sixth Form Maths Leaders • Breakdown your explanation • Get them to explain what they are doing • What operation • Take things slowly • What step did you lose them? • PRAISE, PRAISE, PRAISE • Different ways of explaining what to do • Avoid “tricks” and short cuts • Build up their proportional reasoning at all times

  7. Student Leaders: English

  8. Leadership issues • Using data to monitor and motivate • Using student leaders • Tackling the problem class / teacher

  9. Issues in your school: How have you dealt with them?

  10. Leadership Dilemmas … 1 – You sense that teacher A is spending all the class’s time on poetry, and not preparing them for English reading and writing skills. What do you do? 2 – An earnest, reliable student asks to move to another Maths group because he feels unchallenged and that the teacher doesn’t know his stuff. What do you do? 3 - You’ve moved a student to a different group because of his behaviour. A parent of a ‘good’ student in this new group phones to question the rationale. What do you do?

  11. Key Messages …

  12. Start from 100% Remember it’s about the classroom Inconsistency is an equal opportunities issue Keep data simple Think differently …

  13. ‘Both’, not ‘Either’:Raising Attainment in English AND Maths Geoff Barton & Julia Upton Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk (Presentation 82)

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