Dealing with the Dark Side Yours and theirs

The Offer  A chance to build on good practice  A chance to shape and control development  A chance to do what we really want to do  A chance for real professionalism  An opportunity to make a difference for you and for your pupils

The Caveats  How much knowledge?  What sort of knowledge?  Will the skills get their place?  Will the assessments follow through?  Will we re-interpret “standards”?  Innovation/excellence vs Consistency and equality  Is there an ambush?

More Challenges  Building attachment  Enabling learning  Challenging disadvantage  Integrating provision  Finding the gifts  Establishing foundations  Building on the strengths

What you need to think about  How do we best serve learners?  How do we build links and establish progression  Setting the bar for consistency in quality and then achieving it  Setting ambitions as well as providing care

What are the pathways? 1Knowledge and information Involves recognising or recalling information. When encountering a new piece of information, recalling existing knowledge and seeing how they fit together is often a vital step towards understanding. 2Understanding Understanding goes well beyond recall. It involves absorbing ideas and information in a way that makes them meaningful, memorable and usable.

3 Application In many ways this is an extension of understanding where learners put what they understand into practice 4 Analysis Analysis builds on understanding. Sound procedures are used to examine knowledge critically. The outcome is new ideas

5 Synthesis The ability to put information and ideas together and reconcile contradictions 6 Evaluation Evaluation goes beyond analysis by subjecting whole processes and systems to objective examination. This often entails applying values and beliefs as well as cognitive skills.

7Systems thinking Breadth of vision is combined with deep knowledge and understanding in order to appreciate the workings of complex real world systems and anticipate the impact on the whole of alterations in the parts. 8 Creation Creation is the stage beyond evaluation. The outcomes of evaluation are used to create new processes and systems.

 Making a wider contribution  Understanding how to influence your colleagues, communities and partners  Challenging priorities in straitened times

 Your choice of outcomes  Your processes  Your successes  Your plans for improvement  Your best advocates  Being assertive/controlling the agenda

Now……………  Into 3s - one head one evaluator one commentator.  How do you set out your stall as a head?  What questions will the evaluator ask?  How does this sound?