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JTE and CfE

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• The Journey to Excellence
• Curriculum for Excellence
• Future

Think!
journeytoexcellence.org.uk
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JTE and CfE

• Links

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Connections, coherence
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Permeating Inclusion, Success for all, MCMC,
GIRFEC
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JTE and CfE

• The Journey to Excellence

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What do you think excellence is?
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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
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How good is our school? The Journey to
Excellence
How good can we be?
journeytoexcellence.org.uk
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Focusing on values helps Behaviour Achievement Ed
ucate the whole child Schools to be good places
to be
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What is the most important thing a human being
can do?
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USINGjourneytoexcellence.org.uk

• Become 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

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The great challenge
Great at what?
Good
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Learning
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What is learning?
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Thinking and learning in the classroom
curriculum?
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journeytoexcellence.org.uk
Mainstreaming projects
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Modeling the world and dealing with it
What is thinking?

• Manipulating information
• Forming concepts
• Problem solving
• Reasoning
• Making decisions

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What about critical thinking?
Analysis Evaluation Discernment

• discriminating
• being objective
• understanding
• perceiving

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• making sense of the world
• big picture
• creative
• feedback - data, language

What kinds of thinking?
So, ask interesting questions
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Why are 1998 pound coins worth more than 1997
pound coins?
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Do birds have lunchtimes?
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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

Teaching approaches
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journeytoexcellence.org.uk
Its 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

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JTE and CfE

• Curriculum for Excellence

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CfE levels
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BLOOMS REVISED TAXONOMYCreatingGenerating new
ideas, products, or ways of viewing
thingsDesigning, constructing, planning,
producing, inventing. EvaluatingJustifying a
decision or course of actionChecking,
hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting,
judging  AnalysingBreaking information into
parts to explore understandings and
relationshipsComparing, organising,
deconstructing, interrogating, finding Applying
Using information in another familiar
situationImplementing, carrying out, using,
executing UnderstandingExplaining ideas or
conceptsInterpreting, summarising, paraphrasing,
classifying, explaining RememberingRecalling
informationRecognising, listing, describing,
retrieving, naming, finding 
Higher-order thinking
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Literacy Learning language Thinking tools
Thinking!
Learning!
Numeracy Thinking about, understanding and
relating to the environment
Wellbeing Emotional factors Resilience
Wellbeing Care, participation recognition,
motivation
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journeytoexcellence.org.uk
Literacy, numeracy, thinking
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CfE and JTE

• Future

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20th Century to 21st Century Interactive
.. Participative Stable .. Agile Subjects ..
Projects Delivered wisdom .. User
generated One size fits all ..
Personalisation National .. Global One to
many .. Peer to peer Curriculum-centred..Learner
-centred
TED.com
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Trends More old people than young Competition
for well educated people Technology accelerates
everything Millennium generation solutions
Generation E stability, security Learning,
re-learning, re-learning No status quo
disruptive innovation Choices based on ethics and
values Personal search portfolio of
beliefs Preparing for future jobs that dont yet
exist
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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

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• STARS analysis
• Strengths
• Treats
• Allies
• Radicals
• Successes

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Leadership for learning childrens views Its
more fun to colour outside the lines. Ask Why?
until you understand. Make up the rules as you go
along. It doesnt 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 cant ask to start over when youre
losing.
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Thank you!