Midlothian
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Lasswade High School
North Berwick High School
Ross High School
East Lothian Council
&
Midlothian Council
CfE Personal Support in our Schools
• Role of Personal Support Entitlement in Raising
Attainment and Closing the Gap
• Three Schools looking at how we support ALL learners
to raise achievement & attainment
• Individual Implementation Programmes shared across
Working Groups
• Tutor Time, Personal Support Programmes, Pastoral
Guidance
• Personal Learning Planning, Coaching & Mentor
Programmes, Learner Conversations
• Dweck’s Growth Mindset & Hattie’s Visible Learning
• Finance to Support Implementation (ICT tbc),
Professional Development and INSET.
Research
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Pupil Questionnaires
Pupil Focus Groups (Space Unlimited)
Staff Professional Opinion
Working Group Meetings
Professional Reading
Sharing best-practice visits
Headteacher & SLT Meetings
Use of Visible Learning
Personal Support Programmes.
Next Steps: Where are we going?
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INSET Programme – April 2015
Sharing Best Practice from implementation
Learner Conversations as focus
Assessment Capable Leaners
Passionate & Inspired Teachers
OSIRIS – Visible Learning
Gregor Townsend – Growth Mindset in Sport
Full Implementation & Evaluation.
Midlothian
School Improvement Partnership Programme
Knox Academy
Newbattle High School
St David’s High School
Aim:
• To bridge the gaps and address inequality by improving
learners’ experiences across our three partnership schools
Context
• The School Improvement Planning Partnership
has offered an exciting opportunity to engage in
professional sharing and dialogue within and
across our three schools
• Through discussion, we identified learners’
experiences and professional engagement of
staff as the core means of improving outcomes
for all learners, thereby addressing inequality
and closing the gap
Our Shared Outcomes
more active,
stimulating and
creative
learning
experiences
more positive
and happy
learning
environments
improved sense
of self-esteem
and
responsibility of
learners
Improved
Learners'
Experiences
development
of enquiry and
research skills
a fairer and
more respectful
learning
community
stronger
professional
ethos
improved
performance attainment,
achievement
and positive
destinations
Greater
Professional
Engagement
and Distributed
Leadership
more
collaboration
within and
across project
schools
increased
opportunities
for leadership
across staff
What have we done?
• Staff made clear that they would value the
opportunity to visit other partner schools
• We used some of our budget to pay for cover to
allow this to happen
• Three ‘Sharing Good Practice’ visits took place in
November and December 2014.
We often don’t get very
much opportunity to
observe other lessons, so it
was great to have the time
to do this, and probably
more importantly, to discuss
the lessons we observed
It was really good to
meet teachers from
different schools and
different subjects who
had many of the same
with other teachers.
interests.
I made several changes
following the visit to
St. David’s and I found
the visit really
motivating.
There were many
interesting and useful
discussions going on
throughout the day, which
were both motivating and
inspiring.
Next Steps
• We have planned and organised a conference
which will take place at Queen Margaret
University on Monday 18 May
• This will further build on the theme of improving
learners’ experiences in order to close the gap
and will provide workshop opportunities for all
teaching staff to share good practice and build
networks within and across our three schools
Discussion Question
• What strategies are there to ensure learners
benefit as a result of staff professional
learning?
Classwork
Date:________
How could we use a ‘visible learning’ approach
to close the gap in S1 History?
Aims: MUST: raise attainment in key skills of
-writing essay paragraphs
-judging significance in History
SHOULD: ‘close the gap’ between pupils with different levels of poverty
Activate knowledge:
1.
List what you know about visible learning
2.
Share with your group...
HW:
Join our email list to
share ideas
Due on: Mon
Classwork
Date:________
How could we use a ‘visible learning’ approach
to close the gap in S1 History?
Aims: MUST: raise attainment in key skills of
-writing essay paragraphs
-judging significance in History
SHOULD: ‘close the gap’ between pupils with different levels of poverty
Activate knowledge:
1.
List what you know about visible learning
2.
Share with your group...
HW:
Join our email list to
share ideas
Due on: Mon
Classwork
Date:________
How could we use a ‘visible learning’ approach
to close the gap in S1 History?
Aims: MUST: raise attainment in key skills of
-writing essay paragraphs
-judging significance in History
SHOULD: ‘close the gap’ between pupils with different levels of poverty
Visible learning??
1. ‘know thy impact’
2. Share it with students
3. Use it to inform next steps
HW:
Join our email list to
share ideas
Due on: Mon
Classwork
Date:________
Who & how?
Subjects:
• S1 class of mixed ability.
• Not analysed separately according to poverty levels- the school in
general has a high level of poverty.
• taught x2 / week in lessons of 50 minutes.
Measurement;
• qualitative questions to judge students’ ability to reflect on their
learning- repeated at the end of the unit
• baseline and a follow up test on the key skill of writing paragraphs
• Parents asked for their feedback at start and end