1. Cluster PLC 3 Wednesday 25th January
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Cluster PLC 3 Wednesday 25th January
2017

2. Protocols
What is required of everyone in the room for these cluster meetings to be successful?

3. Agenda - Aims Review Action Plan 2 PLC 3 – Recommendations Reading
Strategic Improvement Plan/SDP
Break
Activity (5min feedback – how TA’s are doing)
Project Timeline
School Visit
Reflection
Date/venue of next meeting

4. Reviewing Personal Action Planning
(approx minutes )
Must photocopy and I will keep a copy in my file. To bring to the next meeting and reflect

5. Furthering Recommendation 3
Continuing with elements of recommendation III, considering how TAs are deployed to increase independence of chn/students, who have 1:1.

6. Reading – Worlds Apart Handout (approx. 20-30 minutes)
What are your thoughts on this article?
What do your schools do to ensure 1:1 TAs are not fully responsible for the child's education with regard to planning etc?

7. Team work Motivational Videos

8. PLC Meetings in your school:
What worked well?
How well are your schools implementing the recommendations? How do you know?
Which elements of the cluster meeting are affecting change?
What needs to be improved?

9. SIP/SDP Work in a pair or triad to review your own SIP
Use the success criteria and questions
Identify strengths
Share how ‘tasks’ are being monitored and evaluated
Take time to update
First 3 points in 3’s – 15 min
Share monitoring and evaluation and record on flipchart – 10 min
Update own SIP – 20 min
Monitoring and Evaluation – How is the implementation of actions being monitored? (OK, so it’s been done, e.g. led a staff meeting on scaffolding framework but is it being put into practice consistently across school?)evidence in books showing scaffolding? How will you recognise/measure impact? (This is the evaluation - How will you know what the impact is as a result of actions/changes? E.g talking to chn/PPM show different chn – not still those, who lack independence/over-reliance on TAs).

10. Break
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

11. 5 minute Presentation/feedback
Present skills matrix and PM sheets
Display board – working wall
Huddle time within a lesson – TA and t communication – some great examples already in one of our Yr 1 classes

12. Using a ‘Heat map’ to be reflective on TA (and teacher) deployment
Target
Detail
Success Criteria
To coach members of staff and reflect on how the teaching team interacts with pupils
To share experience with staff and teaching assistants
Staff will become more reflective of their own practice.
Staff will become more mindful of key aspects of teaching and learning relating to certain pupils and groups

13. To avoid the ‘halo effect’ this task is not to be strictly scheduled (identify week but not session)
1. Draw a plan of the classroom and initial each child 2. TA to map out the route of the class teacher (and vice versa) making a note of how long the teacher remains with each child 3. TA to record questioning used throughout the session using the scaffolding pyramid and associated recording rubric   Feedback to class teacher should identify which children were visited and for how long – Is it a particular group of learners/ individuals?

14. IWB
Teacher

15. Teacher WB

16. Use the map and question rubric to identify the scaffolding strategies and types of question asked and which pupils the teacher engages with.
classroom practice link

17. American Video Clip
For discussion, play the clip: from 4:00 – 6:36 minutes while observers note the route the teacher takes around the class . Who does he visit? How long does he stay? Who does he not visit? What does his route tell you? What questions would you ask him about your observations?
Use the tally chart to record examples of scaffolding questions.

18. What initial conclusions might we draw from the pupils the teacher interacted with? What kind of questions were used? Were there examples of good teacher questioning?

19. Reviewing Personal Action Planning
(approx minutes )
Must photocopy and I will keep a copy in my file. To bring to the next meeting and reflect

20. Next Steps:
Dates for school visits
Website update – account of practice
Interventions Fair – 30th January 2017
Date, time and venue for CM4

22. Your Support Cluster Lead:
Regional Leads
Website