1. School Improvement in a Small Country An Experience from Wales
DR. CHRIS HOWARD, WEF UK
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10. The Welsh - AD 500
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11. WALES TODAY
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22. Authentic Leadership (Patrick Duignan)
Clear purpose and vision (sometimes morally based) Clear focus on this vision Daily (Weekly!!) demonstration of the vision Collaborative purpose: persuasion and inspiration
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23. Our persuasive common narrative
Our school is always getting better Every Person Matters Team Lewis/Lewis Family Achievement, Care, Excellence Community celebration
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24. Our Consistent Principles
Every person matters No child 'written off' No one is perfect Everyone is capable of self improvement School functions best as a surrogate family or team School achievement targets would measure our success.
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25. Imagine…..
‘Imagine you would become a better person just by virtue of being part of a particular school, just by that one fact alone’
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27. MeaningfUl Teacher Conversations
How the best teachers coped with troubled pupils
How best to teach particular parts of a course
Creating the right classroom environment through display and language
How best to engage and re-engage pupils during a lesson
How to use questioning and reward techniques to include all rather than reward a minority
What a good/excellent lesson looks like.
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28. Assessment AND Learning
Quality and Brevity of Teacher Exposition
Quality of Teacher Questioning (Open not Closed)
Setting ‘next steps’ for learning
“Real time’ assessment of what all children are learning (what they are learning not what is being taught)
Pupil group work and self-assessment
Effective lesson starts (setting learning goals) and ends (summarizing what has been learnt)
Using pupil feedback both in real time and afterwards and making this an integral part of assessment and marking.
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29. A Culture of CommitmentK0
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30. Professional Learning Communities
Teachmeet groups
Excellence in Teaching groups
Instructional rounds
Subject Leader networks
Equity in education (‘Closing the Gap’ networks)
Teach First Seminars
Practice-based workshops for changing national curricula priorities
Modelled interventions by expert practitioners
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31. Culture & Community
Leaders need the skills and knowledge to uncover a culture’s deeper history They need the techniques to assess current conditions and values. And most important they require the ability to be symbolic leaders and cultural reinforcers in their daily work.
Deal and Peterson, 2003, quoted in Principals’ Australia Leadership Development Programme
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32. Making Our Horizons Sing
Cynefin
(kuh-nev-in)
untranslatable directly but homeland, or belonging to a native culture convey the sense
Used by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone. “A Leaders Framework to Decision Making.” Harvard Business Review, Nov 2007.
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33. Authentic Leadership & Core Purpose
i-movie made with support of NAHT colleagues and UNICEF
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