Quality in educational systems Workshop 4

1. Quality in educational systemsWorkshop 4 Andre Haynes United Kingdom

2. The Quality in education CD resource • A variety of tools to support self assessment, requiring time commitments from 15 minutes to a whole school day • Improvement approaches based on generic quality tools; with material from LEAs and schools, and with four award winning submissions from different parts of the education sector in the U K • Training material - school case study • Managing the Management & E Filing Cabinet • Questionnaire and analysis tools from DFES • Materials from further education • Materials from higher education • Approaches to inclusion, drawn from LEAs • The accreditation process • Site map & introductory booklet PDFs

3. LEADERSHIP IN ACTIONDo we do this? The Institute of Management recommends: • Creating systematic and consistent frameworks for reward and promotion and for developing leadership potential • Establishing a regular ‘leadership audit’ on a 360 degree assessment model among employees at all levels in the organisation • Introducing mentoring programmes across organisations to meet the need for self awareness at all levels • Identifying opportunities for leadership that are not tied to formal management positions, but which offer appropriate recognition and rewards • Making learning a priority among the leaders themselves , so that professional development for all is seen as the norm • Recognising the perpetual challenge of fairness and transparency in recruitment and promotion • Building training and development programmes to link theory and practice

4. LEADERSHIP APPROACHES • Freshness: • As leaders we can encourage our people to try to do things differently • We can challenge assumptions • We can encourage benchmarking • Greenhousing: • We should protect and grow new ideas • We must try hard to suspend the wisdom of experience • Realness: • We must put an end to talking, memos, and the e-mail culture • We must encourage our people to do, rather than talk about doing • Create and sustain momentum: • Leaders can create a sense of unreasonable urgency • Leaders must say ‘no’ to some projects • Lots of signals: • Leaders can build structures to support innovation • Leaders should use positive and enabling language • Bravery: • Leaders must be brave in idea development • Effective leaders liberate their staff to think for themselves

5. MANAGING THE IMPROVEMENT CYCLE School self assessment Direction Setting Quick fixes Tactical activity e.g. team building Improvements Changes Programme of continuous and planned improvement Build the strategic plan Managing the management Capacity building

6. School Processes Community Communications Community Finance People management ICT Monitoring & evaluation Operational management Strategic planning Premises Resources Assessment, recording and reporting Culture Student attitude Teaching & Learning Student support Student support Curriculum entitlement Pastoral systems Enriched or extended curriculum SEN provision

7. Deploying the Excellence Model ENABLERS Criteria 1-5 How the school operates RESULTS Criteria 6-9 What the school has achieved OBJECTIVES What the school aims to achieve PURPOSE Mission, vision & values Team Criteria 1-5 Consistent & with regular evaluation Team Criteria 6-9 Targets & real-time outcomes Individual staff Criteria 1-5 Consistent & with regular evaluation Individual staff Criteria 6-9 Targets & real-time outcomes With acknowledgements to TQMI

8. Tools to monitor and improve teaching • Schedules of agreed desired performance • Use by observers within school as a part of monitoring performance • Use by groups of teachers for mutual observation and improvement • Emphasis on regular paired observation and discussion of styrengths and areas for improvement

9. Classroom teaching observation exemplar Compulsory schedules for observation & reporting 1. Planning 2. Behaviour Management 3. Expectations 4. Questioning Optional schedules for observation & reporting 1. Maintaining Good Pace 2. Vigilance in Class 3. Starts and Ends of lessons 4. Setting appropriate tasks

10. The Quality in education CD resource • A variety of tools to support self assessment, requiring time commitments from 15 minutes to a whole school day • Improvement approaches based on generic quality tools; with material from LEAs and schools, and with four award winning submissions from different parts of the education sector in the U K • Training material - school case study • Managing the Management & E Filing Cabinet • Questionnaire and analysis tools from DFES • Materials from further education • Materials from higher education • Approaches to inclusion, drawn from LEAs • The accreditation process • Site map & introductory booklet PDFs

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