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HM Inspectorate of Education


A flexible, local, curriculum so that young people become

successful learners confident individuals effective contributors responsible citizens.


Vision statement for children

So that young people are:•safe•fulfilled and valued•healthy•successful in achieving•active•respected and responsible•included

With a moral dimension!


‘Scottish education does many things well and some things particularly well.’

External views :

• Stakeholders (learners, parents, staff) are pleased overall with the quality of provision • Performance of our school pupils (age 15) stands up well in international comparisons• We have a world acclaimed system of educational self-evaluation


‘Scottish education does many things well and some things particularly well.’

HMIE findings : strengths in overall quality of attainment at some stages teaching curriculum pastoral care /climate and relationships leadership self-evaluation


….the challenges of an increasingly complex and uncertain future

Need for development in :

curriculum and qualifications () achievement and its recognition learning and teaching / use of ICT focus on the individual joint working role of teachers and other staff nature of leadership


….the challenges of an increasingly complex and uncertain future

ACfE provides ’a unique and powerful opportunity to address some fundamental issues’. We need :

Clarity on essential elements More rigour on development and certification of essential skills

(particularly literacy and numeracy) Space for imaginative teaching Vocational education for all with creativity and emphasis on the

application of learning A more pronounced focus on health education A more consistent approach to education for citizenship


Scale of goodness

Excellent

Very good

Good

Adequate

Weak

Unsatisfactory

“Good is not good enough”


Ways of Achieving Excellence- a point of inflexion

Self-evaluation Support with challenge Appreciative Inquiry Visioning


You’re fired!

Core business

People

Leadership

What do you think are the two or three key success factorsfor anyorganisation?


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For institutions of learning

Learning

Relationships

Leadership


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]


Our great challenge

Good Great


How good is our school? A journey to excellence


Go with the grain

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Closing the Gap/The NEET group

Our focus is on the lowest-attaining 20% of pupils across the countryWhat causes children to fall into this group?How do we identify these children?Are we measuring the

attainment/achievement ‘gap’ accurately?

Individual schools and intervention programmes DO make a difference


HM Inspectorate of Education HM Inspectorate of Education

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HM Inspectorate of Education HM Inspectorate of Education

Inequalities in Education - Average S4 Tariff Scores: 2003/04

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It’s about outcomes! Isn’t it?

eg How can we: Identify the CHARM group as early as possible, especially those

with EBD Have focused targeting but avoid perverse effects Adopt consistent, valid and reliable measures of achievement Use measures which credit the full range of achievements Focus on 4 capacities and emphasise core skills, vocational

skills, life skills A new focus on destinations. Intense support for employability. …?



Inspection and improvement activity across children’s services

Strategic

Operational

Outcomes/ service delivery

Education

Strategic

Operational


Social Work

Strategic

Operational


Care

Strategic

Operational


Health

Strategic

Operational


Justice


There is no such thing as an unmotivated pupil - just a de-motivating learning ethos?

Key Ideas

Teachers need to realise their power over pupils - the ethos is not a neutral backdrop.

Teachers who don’t think that ethos is

important should be replaced by computers?


threateningdespairing

challenging

affirming

exasperating

disappointing

warm

cold

powerful

recharging

unsatisfying

weak

reassuring

fulfilling

satisfying

draining


AttachmentAttachment

AgencyAgency

Low Low attachmentattachment

LowLowagencyagency

the engagedlearner

AutonomyAutonomy

OverwhelmOverwhelmeded

the overwhelmedlearner

the over-dependentlearner

the oppositionallearner

distorteddistortedautonomyautonomy

Over-Over-dependencydependency


PartnershipsParents

Quality assurance

CPD

Management

Guidance

Learningsupport

Subjects

Performance management

Self-evaluation


PartnershipsParents

Quality assuranceCPD

Management Support for pupils

Subjects

Performance management

Self-evaluation


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go

T S Eliot

PS: It’s about learning and relationships

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