• Links

• The Journey to Excellence

• Curriculum for Excellence

• Future

JTE and CfE

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• Links

JTE and CfE

Connections, coherence

Legislation, policySSS Act; ASL Act, GIRFEC, MCMC, CfE

Strategies relating to Assessment for learning

Teaching for effective learning

Outcomes of A Curriculum for Excellence

Permeating – Inclusion, Success for all, MCMC, GIRFEC

Working with people – and permeatingPermeating - Working with people

• The Journey to Excellence

JTE and CfE

What do you think

excellence is?

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

How good is our school?: The Journey to Excellence

How good can we be?

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Focusing on values helps:Behaviour

Achievement

Educate the whole child

Schools to be good places to be

What is the mostimportant thing a

human being can do?

USING:journeytoexcellence.org.ukBecome 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

Good Great

The great challenge

It was great that it became better,but it would have been better had it become great.Mollehave Great at

what?

Learning

What islearning?

Thinking and learning in the

classroom curriculum?

Mainstreaming ‘projects’

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What is thinking?

Modeling theworld and

dealing with it

•Manipulating information•Forming concepts•Problem solving•Reasoning•Making decisions

What aboutcritical

thinking?

AnalysisEvaluation

Discernment

•discriminating•being objective•understanding•perceiving

Whatkinds of

thinking?

• making sense of the world• big picture• creative• feedback - data, language

So, askinterestingquestions

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

Do birds have

lunchtimes?

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

It’s the classroom, stupid!

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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]

• Curriculum for Excellence

JTE and CfE

CfE levels

Challenge (and CfE levels)

ConsolidatingApplying

Higherorderlearning skills

BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY

CreatingCreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

 EvaluatingEvaluating

Justifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging

  AnalysingAnalysing

Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationshipsComparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding

 ApplyingApplying

Using information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executing

 UnderstandingUnderstanding

Explaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

 RememberingRemembering

Recalling informationRecognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

 

Numeracy:

Thinking about, understanding and relating to the environment

Numeracy:

Thinking about, understanding and relating to the environment

Literacy:

Learning languageThinking tools

Literacy:

Learning languageThinking tools

Thinking!Thinking!

Wellbeing:

Emotional factorsResilience

Wellbeing:

Emotional factorsResilience

Learning!Learning!

Wellbeing:

Care, participationrecognition, motivation

Wellbeing:

Care, participationrecognition, motivation

Literacy, numeracy, thinking

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• Future

CfE and JTE

TED.com

20th Century to 21st Century

Interactive ….. ParticipativeStable ….. AgileSubjects ….. ProjectsDelivered wisdom….. User generatedOne size fits all ….. PersonalisationNational ….. GlobalOne to many ….. Peer to peerCurriculum-centred…..Learner-centred

Trends

More old people than youngCompetition for well educated peopleTechnology accelerates everythingMillennium generation – solutions Generation E – stability, securityLearning, re-learning, re-learningNo status quo – disruptive innovationChoices based on ethics and valuesPersonal search – portfolio of beliefsPreparing for future jobs that don’t yet exist

The E generation

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• Innovative and creative

• Able to cross boundaries

• Adaptable and flexible

• Analytical and critical in thinking

• Can problem solve

• Personal development

• Technologically literate

STARS analysis

StrengthsTreatsAlliesRadicalsSuccesses

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.

Thank you!

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