• 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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