partnership update spring 2013 gabrielle.reddington@durham.gov.uk

Partnership Update

Spring 2013

Gabrielle.Reddington@Durham.gov.uk

Judging your department

O The new SS guidance – lilac sheets.O The Hattie evidence diagnostic –

yellow sheets

ProgressO Of groupsO Expected progress – only satisfactoryO Progress of 4 levels…

What data do you have about your students?Where do students need to be each year to make 4LP?

A*/A

What worked? What didn’t?

A*/AO Start early – the mid Y9 interventionO Fuel the history, they are often bored

by GCSEO Separate and targeted revision

sessions

What do the following have in common

Work ScrutinyO Feedback O Progress over

time

Feedback- the magic bullet?

O In analysis of data, an effect-size of 1.0 is typically associated with:

O advancing learners' achievement by one year, or improving the rate of learning by 50%

O a two grade leap in GCSE, e.g. from a C to an A grade.

O An effect size of 1.0 is clearly enormous!

So what is Hattie’s fab feedback?

O Feedback includes telling students what they have done well (positive reinforcement)

O What they need to do to improve (corrective work, targets etc),O High quality feedback is always given against explicit criteria.

O As well as feedback on the task Hattie believes that students can get feedback on the processes they have used to complete the task, and on their ability to self-regulate their own learning. All these have the capacity to increase achievement.

O Feedback is used and this is checked.

O Feedback is along the journey not at the end of the road.

Feedback on the ‘self' such as ‘well done you are good at this' is not helpful. The feedback must be informative rather than evaluative. Praise is not mixed up with feedback.

A Level ReformO No more Jan modulesO New specs for teaching from Sept

2015 designed by Russell GroupO A/S freestanding qualificationO A Level strengthened

BBC News O School history lessons should be

overhauled and a British history qualification brought in for 16-year-olds, urges a group of MPs and peers.

The Times 30/12/12O Revised history curriculum to focus

on events in Britain

The Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole and Olaudah Equiano, a freed slave, are set to be axed as the education secretary introduces a stronger emphasis on kings and conflict

Telegraph 9/12/13O Will Gove's 'posh white blokes'

history curriculum ignore women?O Michael Gove, the Education

Minister, has caused controversy with his plans for a new history curriculum, which could mean the only women children learn anything about will be queens, writes Cathy Newman.

O Point out the beginning,direct the progress,and help in the completion.

O Point out the beginning,direct the progress,and help in the completion.

Thomas Aquinas, A Student’s Prayer

Up and comingO The future training of history

teachers.O The strengthening of the GCSE

specs.O A Level change

For your diaryO 14th Feb. Free Holocaust Education

course from IOE. (GR has details)O Your Outstanding KS3 Curriculum

Conference.O HA in YorkO SHP in LeedsO County Durham Network – single

meetings can be negotiated.