New to Year and Phase Leader training – Day two Tania Cotton taniacotton@beechwoodjuniorschool.co.uk

The areas of focus for the day: 9am Start Quick recap of the last session and discussion of the gap task Your experience of monitoring What is effective monitoring? 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break Creating a monitoring timetable 12:15 – 13:00 Lunch School policies Monitoring reports Monitoring 13:45 – 14:15 Coffee break Evaluation Your time!

Last session’s gap task So, how did it go? Have you found it useful? Have you tried it yourself or with anybody else?

Monitoring

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality Max De Pree

What is your experience of monitoring?

Why monitor? Obtaining a snapshot Recognising improvements Identifying CPD needs Assessment Strategic planning

A chance to catch someone out! What monitoring shouldn’t be… A chance to catch someone out! Provide any sense of being ‘done to’ for staff Too critical!

Attitudes towards monitoring… How do people in your school feel about monitoring? What potential responses could there be to monitoring? How could these be avoided? Involvement and collaboration Credibility Sound evidence basis Knowing your audience

This applies to yourself, your team and the children you teach. Consider your mindset This applies to yourself, your team and the children you teach.

What makes it effective? Involvement and collaboration Credibility Sound evidence basis As well as: Being relevant and specific Being timely Being cyclical in nature Most importantly, it needs to be constructive!

What is effective monitoring? What is it that you’re looking for? By whom and when? Your responsibility?

Roles and responsibilities – the procedural side What information / procedural duties your HT will expect from you: Organisation – trips, curriculum / long term overviews Data analysis Work scrutiny Pupil conferencing Environment monitoring Observing teaching Team teaching and coaching

Consider your mindset

The ladder of inference How to avoid jumping to conclusions by questioning yourself and considering other possibilities. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_91.htm

Creating a monitoring timetable What are your main areas of responsibility with regard to monitoring? How will you prioritise these? How often will you monitor it? How will you monitor it?

What are your school policies for the areas to be monitored?

What does a monitoring report look like? Monitoring reports What does a monitoring report look like? Good example Bad example

Let’s do some monitoring… In either pairs or groups of 3: Start with one person’s books Select an area to focus upon in relation to their role (make it specific e.g. marking, presentation, curriculum coverage etc) Use each other to help monitor and identify strengths and development points for each (use the form or your own form if you have one) Switch round so that each person gets some supported monitoring time

Evaluation Your time to work on whatever you would like to from either Day 1 or Day 2!

Next session… 15th January Holding others to account Difficult conversations Coaching and mentoring