Presented by:

Laura Stabler – Assistant Head, Fielding

Halina Rooney – Assistant Head, Little Ealing

EIF PROJECT FOCUS

Fielding and Little Ealing successfully bid for £20k from the Ealing

Innovation Fund to improve learning and outcomes for the More Able

children.

The EIF is aimed at :

• Enabling both schools to improve the quality of teaching through Visible

Learning techniques, building the capacity of staff in a model that can be

replicated elsewhere.

• Giving pupils more choice and control over their learning (which research

shows has a high effect) resulting in all learners, but especially the most

able, making rapid learning gains;

The specific aspects of shared practice to be developed

include:

- different areas of curriculum excellence in each school that

the pupils from both schools will be able to access.

- the development of shared practice and learning

experiences for the staff and pupils across each school.

EIF PROJECT FOCUS

It is an 18 month programme which links with ‘Visible Learning’

focussing on Professor John Hattie’s meta-analysis of extensive

research including millions of students world-wide and

represents the largest ever evidence-based research into what

actually works best in schools to improve learning.

EIF PROJECT FOCUS

FINDINGS SO FAR…

The project has just started but some here are some of the findings so far

• Strategies we are using with More Able have become excellent strategies to support ALL PUPILS.

• Staff at both schools are engaging in a learning community and sharing their learning

• We will evaluate the project and will have evidence to show the impact in18 months, but so far…..

WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR…

• Two initial training days for staff

• Impact Coach training

• Evidence into Action training sessions for SLT

• Identified areas to develop

• Started collecting evidence

• Trialled aspects of Visible Learning

MISTAKES • Children did not like to make mistakes especially the more able

• They felt that the ‘good learners ‘never made mistakes and always got everything right

• Children would always look for a rubber to erase mistakes

• Children would usually only share ideas if they were confident that they were right

What have we done so far……

• Assemblies

• ‘Mistake’ displays in the corridors and in classrooms

• Highlight teacher mistakes – teacher makes deliberate mistakes

• Posters around the school

• Removed erasers

CHILDREN BECOMING MORE AWARE OF THEIR

LEARNING…

• Explained the structure of the lesson and the purpose

of each section

• Highlighted the importance of reflecting on learning

• Started talking about the purpose of feedback

• Shared the steps to being successful learners with

younger learners

• Highlighted the importance of making mistakes

• Introduced the learning pit

THE LEARNING PIT

• Introduced the concept of the learning pit to

the children

• Children drew their own learning pit

• We created a year group learning pit

• Displayed learning pits and strategies to ‘get

out of’ the learning pit

• Children came up with their own strategies

• KS2 have interactive learning pits

• Examples of the learning pit