Influencing and challenging mainstream practice- A Scottish perspective.

Monica Mc GeeverHM Inspector Education Scotland

Education Scotland

• Came into existence on 1 July 2011 as an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. It was created by bringing together the resources and the functions of Learning and Teaching Scotland, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HMIE), the National CPD Team and the Scottish Government’s Positive Behaviour Team.

Scotland in context

676 955 children and young people in Scottish Schools

140 524 with additional support needs (+1.3%)

124 637 in mainstream schools (95%)

2,606 schools

51,400 teachers

Scotland in context

140 524 with additional support needs

27 % IEP = 37 640

11% Child’s Plan = 15 946

2.2% CSP = 3128

Scotland in context

Hearing Impairment

2500Children and young

people 95%

in mainstream schools

Inspection Evidence

• Over the past few years our inspection programme has provided evidence of highly effective provision in the majority of schools and units for hearing impaired children and young people.

Key Strengths

Key strengths have been identified in many aspects of meeting the needs of pupils including:• effective support• very good approaches to meeting communication needs,•good levels of attainment• high quality pastoral support.

Challenges

• Attainment • ?• ?• ?

Attainment

Average Tariff score attained by leavers

2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/2013

Any ASN 121 168 206 222

No ASN 385 405 433 439

Learning Disability 55 66 78 89

Dyslexia 189 222 252 273

VI 161 234 249 241

HI 225 218 274 289

Autistic Spectrum 168 195 215 235

Physical health problem

201 248 263 253

Destinations Young People with Hearing Impairment

2009/10 2010/11 2011/12

Higher Education 12.8 16.0 24.0

Further Education 55.1 42.0 45.2

Employment 9.0 18.0 10.3

Training 6.4 9.0 *

Unemployed seeking * 10.0 8.9

Unemployed Not seeking * 5.0 6.2

Number of leavers 78 100 146

Entitlements

• Every child and young person is entitled to experience a curriculum which is coherent from 3 to 18

• Every child and young person is entitled to experience a broad general education

• Every young person is entitled to experience a senior phase where he or she can continue to develop the four capacities and also obtain qualifications

Entitlements

• Every child and young person is entitled to develop skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work, with a continuous focus on literacy and numeracy and health and wellbeing

• Every child and young person is entitled to personal support to enable them to gain as much as possible from the opportunities which Curriculum for Excellence can provide

• Every young person is entitled to support in moving into a positive and sustained destination

Support Entitlements

Meeting the needs of HI pupils in schools5 Quality Indicators

• Learners’ experiences • Improvements in performance• Meeting Learning Needs• Curriculum• Improvement through self evaluation

Quality Indicators- Evaluations

• Excellent- Sector leading, exemplifies very best practice

• Very good- major strengths, very few areas for improvement

• Good- important strengths which outweigh areas for improvement

• Satisfactory-strengths just outweigh weaknesses, basic level of provision

• Weak- some strengths, important weaknesses

• Unsatisfactory- major weaknesses, immediate remedial action

Meeting Learning NeedsWhat does good practice look like?• Tasks, activities and resources are very well

matched to the needs of individuals or groups• The needs of learners are identified, reviewed

and evaluated regularly • Roles of teachers and specialist staff provide

valuable support• IEPS, CSPs contain appropriate targets and involve

children, young people and their families

Learners’ ExperiencesWhat does good practice look like? • Learners are motivated and eager participants

in their learning.• High quality feedback makes them aware of

their progress and strengths as learners • Learners have made very good progress from

prior levels of attainment• Learners feel safe, nurtured, healthy, achieving,

active, included, respected and responsible

Good practice

• Young people from the HI Department are included in almost all mainstream classes and within these classes are fully included in all aspects of learning and teaching. Young people who use BSL are supported by appropriately trained teachers. The use of the Soundfield System in all departments ensures that the teacher’s voice is clearly amplified, providing HI young people with the optimum environment for learning in a mainstream setting.

Good Practice

• almost all young people feel that the school is helping them to become more confident, that they are getting on well with their school work, that staff encourage them to do the best they can, that they get help when they need it; and that staff pay attention to what they say. Almost all felt they enjoyed learning at school, that staff treat them fairly and with respect, that they feel safe and cared for, and that there are adults in the school they can speak to if they are upset or worried about something

Reflective Questions

• How well do I ensure children and young people are fully involved in their learning?

• How often do pupils have meaningful opportunities to talk about their learning with staff?

• How do I ensure learners access high quality and targeted support?

• Are teaching and learning approaches effective in delivering meaningful experiences for pupils?

Conference for deaf young people

Challenges

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Conference for Deaf Young PeopleNever feel alone because there is

support if you need it

Teachers need to be more deaf

aware

Sometimes they mock us for using

sign language

Technology- teacher doesn’t

use it consistently/

teacher cant use equipment

The Conference I got to

meet others who faced the same difficulties

as me

Makes me more

confident for the future

• It motivated me and I'm not by myself being deaf

Good to meet new people, and learn differentways that other deaf pupils learn

I thought of more ways

for people to help me

Following on from today’s conference Education Scotland should ……….