Science SLDMAutumn 2015

Woodlands Conference Centre, Chorley

Tuesday, 13th October 2015

OverviewUpdate Science update

Session 1 The New Ofsted Framework:

Implications for science lessons – Good and Outstanding, Planning for good with Q10

Break

Session 2 KS3 Science: 18 months in

Models of assessment, pause and evaluate

Lunch

Session 3 How to make literacy and numeracy explicit in Science lessons

Update

Website now being “regularly” updated

www.lancsngfl.ac.ukSecondaryScienceLeadership & Management

Lancs NGfL

Future Courses

Preparing for the New GCSE in Science

Wednesday 18th November 2015

1.00 – 5.00 pm

SEC205

Future Courses

Launch of the Lancashire assessment programme for Science – an approach to assessment without levels

Tuesday 2nd February 2016

9.30 – 4.00 pm

SCI201

Future Courses

GCSE Science – Curriculum 2016

Tuesday 1st March 2016

9.30 – 4.00 pm

SCI200

SLDM Spring 22nd March pm only SCI221

SLDM Summer 5th July SCI222

The practical in the new GCSE

DRAFT ONLY

Handout U1

Six Creative ways to inspire girls in science lessons

http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/oct/05/six-creative-ways-inspire-girls-science-lessons

Sarah Marsh and Zofia Niemtus, The Guardian

UYSEG

University of York Science Education Group

Check out their research or even take part in their research (sometimes get paid for it too!)

http://www.york.ac.uk/education/research/uyseg/

National Science Learning Network

Country now divided into 5 regions

NW has 6 Science Learning Partnerships (SLPs)

http://www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk/consortia/nw/

Part funding available:

Reimbursed the difference between LPDS fee (£165) and SLN fee (107.50) - £57.50

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Funded through the DfE and the Wellcome Trust

Altrincham Grammar School for Girls

Ashton Community Science College

Liverpool John Moores University

Session 1

The New Ofsted Framework:

A View from a Science Lesson

Handout – The New Framework (Pages 44-50)

(Full document is shared on Lancs NGfL)

The new framework

Introduction

oNew Ofsted Framework: September 2015oJudged against your own school policies – no expected styleso“Evidence over time”

General Points

oDefinite reinforcement of judgements based on evidence of good teaching over an extended period of timeoStudent interviews, work scrutiny, policy matching, short observations, no individual teacher observation grades issued

Teaching and Learning

oQ10oTen key questions to promote reflective and evaluative lesson planningoMatched to new frameworkoLeading to “good” lessonsoConsistently delivered can lead to “outstanding” lessons

Activity 1 – Which lead to the best learning in Science?

oHexagon sort – discuss the statementsoPlace the statements in a hexagonal patternoThree most important at the top oFour beneath those (across middle)oThree at the bottomo15 minutes

Lesson Planning

Activity 2 – Exemplification – what does it mean to us in Science?

oEach table has a different question from the Q10 listoAt your table:

oDiscuss the question, ensure a shared mental understanding

oWrite/draw/record a list of practical activities/ideas/anecdotes that would contribute to a YES answer to this question

o Elect a spokesperson to share with the room (3/4 minutes max per group)

Next Steps

P – Park it for now, I’m not sure how to do this, I need advice and/or training on this aspect. I shall seek help from departmental colleagues who do this well ……

R – Resilience, this may prove challenging or is outside my normal routine but I’m going to try and plan for this to happen

O – Obstacle. The thing that is stopping me from planning this aspect is…… I will pass on this obstacle to …… so that it can be removed.

Break

Session 2

KS3:The Forgotten “Friend”

Handout – KS3

The KS3 programme of study

Reminders

• Current Y7, Y8 and Y9 will all receive NUMBERS attainment measures at KS4 (9-1)

• The demand of the new KS3 has been increased

• How Science Works has become Working Scientifically

• Increased Literacy and Numeracy expectations• Still no external assessment

Measuring Progress…

…without levels (or maybe with levels if you’ve kept them)

The National Expectation:

100 5

In old money L4 C/B

Activity 1

With your shoulder partner:•Describe how you are assessing KS3•Describe what you are reporting to the school monitoring system•Describe what you are reporting to parents

The Lancashire Model

• English and Mathematics have launched• Big uptake of Lancashire schools• Science and MFL will launch in Spring term• Other subjects now beginning pilot phase

Common themes

Four Bands of attainment (A, B, C and D)

Band A – lowest attainers, arriving in Y7 below national expectation

Band D – highest attainers

Each band has a collection of descriptors that describe the skills a student is exhibiting

Works on a best fit model

Band Approximate KS3 Level

Equivalence

GCSE Grade Equivalence/Expected Progress

  New GCSE Existing GCSE

Band D N/A 7,8,9 A, A*

Band C 7,8 5, 6 C+, BBand B 5,6 3, 4 C/C- to E+

Band A 3,4 1,2 E to G+

KS2:KS3 BAND 7 8 9 10 11 ‘OLD’ ‘NEW’

    

D 

          A*   

A

9 8 7

8   

7

  

C  

         

B   

C+

6   

5

6   

5

 

B  

          C 

C - 

D-E

4   

3

4   

3

  

A 

 

          F   

G+

2   

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Activity 2

Using the working scientifically section of the KS3 POS (page 4), identify skills that you would anticipate a Band A student (lowest attainers) might have already.

Remember that the national expectation is that all learners be able to make progress in all these skills by the end of the Key Stage and that a Grade 5 trajectory student should be able to demonstrate a “sound grasp” of all of them

Session 3

Numeracy and Literacy:

Explicit and Implicit

Finding the Motivation

www.literacytrust.org.uk, Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust

www.letstalkscience.ca

Teachers’ standards in England, from September 2012, Department for Education

Mark Scheme, Jan 2011, Biology GCSE exam, OCR

Literacy focus

Literacy mat handout

Handout – National Strategy

Revisiting the National Strategy for Science

The new GCSE

The new GCSE

The new GCSE

The new GCSE

The new GCSE

Action plan

Literacy and Numeracy CPD requirements…

P: Park

R: Resilience

O: Obstacle

That’s it for today.

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Have an exciting Autumn term and a Merry Christmas!