RAISING YOUR GAME: Improving Your Subject Area

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RAISING YOUR GAMEImproving Your Subject Area
Peter Richards Geoff Barton June 25, 2016
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Aims

• To help improve learning and teaching in your
  subject area
• To become familiar with improvement strategies
• To help you integrate the improvement process
  into your subject area.

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Objectives

• To consider your role as a middle leader within
  the National context
• To become familiar with a process for diagnosing
  areas for improvement, using indicators of
  excellence and national and school data
• To become familiar through practical activities
  with what effective learning and teaching looks
  like
• To develop skills and instruments to carry out
  effective lesson observation for improvement
• To develop skills to give developmental feedback.

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National Agenda

• The subject leader

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The National Context

• Changes in society and the nature of work
• Impact of technology
• Transforming secondary education independence,
  collaboration and inclusion
• Standards and creativity
• New understanding about learning
• Distributed leadership
• Changes in life style and working patterns
• Every child matters
• Our pupils are global citizens

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The central role

• Learning and teaching
• The focus of improvement in schools
• Specialist and high performing schools focus

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Your leadership

• Leading from the middle
• National standards for subject leaders,NCSL
• Distributed leadership
• Team developer
• Team deliverer

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What do they want you to do with this new found
power ?

• Improve standards and outcomes
• Do this with and through other people (not only
  teachers workforce reform and re-modelling)
• Be responsible for others performance
• Monitor improve and reward the performance of
  others

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What about accountability ?

• Ofsted Short Inspection
• Self evaluation framework- School SEF
• LA holds a responsibility for improvement of
  their schools with others ( SIP )
• People expect TQM and right first time
  situations
• Students, parents and communities seek education
  fit for purpose in a world we cannot yet fully
  predict

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Current National Agenda the Governments vision
Your LAs vision
Your schools vision
Your teams vision
Your vision
This is an iterative process, resulting in a
vision that embraces all relevant perspectives.
It takes skill to see the whole picture and then
be discerning enough to extract the relevant
parts for you and the team in your school.