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Improving Your Subject Area: Raising Your Game

This book aims to help educators improve learning and teaching in their subject area by providing strategies for improvement and guidance on integrating the improvement process. It covers topics such as diagnosing areas for improvement, effective lesson observation, and giving developmental feedback.

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Improving Your Subject Area: Raising Your Game

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  1. RAISING YOUR GAME:Improving Your Subject Area Peter Richards & Geoff Barton December 20, 2019

  2. Aims : • To help improve learning and teaching in your subject area; • To become familiar with improvement strategies; • To help you integrate the improvement process into your subject area.

  3. Objectives: • To consider your role as a middle leader within the National context • To become familiar with a process for diagnosing areas for improvement, using indicators of excellence and national and school data; • To become familiar through practical activities with “what effective learning and teaching looks like”; • To develop skills and instruments to carry out effective lesson observation for improvement; • To develop skills to give developmental feedback.

  4. National Agenda The subject leader

  5. Changes in society and the nature of work Impact of technology Transforming secondary education; independence, collaboration and inclusion Standards and creativity New understanding about learning Distributed leadership Changes in life style and working patterns Every child matters Our pupils are global citizens Leadership -powerful and effective leaders Teaching And Learning • Structure • specialism and • collaboration • Remodelling • professionals • leading a team Beyond the classroom - transformational partnerships The National Context

  6. The central role • Learning and teaching • The focus of improvement in schools • Specialist and high performing schools focus

  7. Your leadership • Leading from the middle • National standards for subject leaders,NCSL • Distributed leadership • Team developer • Team deliverer

  8. What do they want you to do with this new found power ? • Improve standards and outcomes • Do this with and through other people (not only teachers workforce reform and re-modelling) • Be responsible for others performance • Monitor improve and reward the performance of others

  9. What about accountability ? • Ofsted Short Inspection • Self evaluation framework- School SEF • LA holds a responsibility for improvement of their schools with others ( SIP ) • People expect TQM and “right first time situations” • Students, parents and communities seek education “fit for purpose” in a world we cannot yet fully predict

  10. Current National Agenda – the Government’s vision Your LA’s vision Your school’s vision Your team’s vision Your vision This is an iterative process, resulting in a vision that embraces all relevant perspectives. It takes skill to see the whole picture and then be discerning enough to extract the relevant parts for you and the team in your school.

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