1. Think! JTE and CfE Links The Journey to Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence
Future
Think!
journeytoexcellence.org.uk

2. JTE and CfE
Links

3. Connections, coherence
Legislation, policy
SSS Act; ASL Act, GIRFEC, MCMC, CfE 3

4. Working with people – and permeating Permeating - Working with people
Outcomes of A Curriculum for Excellence
Strategies relating to Assessment for learning
Teaching for effective learning
Permeating – Inclusion, Success for all, MCMC, GIRFEC 4 4

9. JTE and CfE
The Journey to Excellence

10. What
do you think
excellence is?

11. caring more than others think is wise
risking more than others think is safe
dreaming more than others think is practical
expecting more than others think is possible

12. How good can we be? journeytoexcellence.org.uk
How good is our school?:
The Journey to Excellence
How good
can we be?
journeytoexcellence.org.uk

13. Focusing on values helps:
Behaviour
Achievement
Educate the whole child
Schools to be good places to be

14. What is the most
important thing a
human being can do? 14

15. USING: journeytoexcellence.org.uk
Become familiar with the resource, contents, structure
Professional Development Packs and developing your own
Movie clips in talks –make suggestions for adding to them
Improvement planning (search JTE for ‘grid’)
Discussing pupils’ learning and staff CPD
Sources of best practice: places, people, published research

16. Great at what? Good Great The great challenge
It was great that it became better,
but it would have been better had it become great.
Mollehave
Great at
what?
Good
Great 16

17. Learning

18. What is
learning?

19. Thinking and
learning in the
classroom
curriculum? 19

20. Mainstreaming ‘projects’
journeytoexcellence.org.uk

21. What is thinking? Modeling the world and dealing with it
Manipulating information
Forming concepts
Problem solving
Reasoning
Making decisions

22. What about critical thinking? Analysis Evaluation Discernment
discriminating
being objective
understanding
perceiving

23. So, ask interesting questions What kinds of thinking?
making sense of the world
big picture
creative
feedback - data, language
So, ask
interesting
questions

24. Why are 1998 pound coins worth more than 1997 pound coins?24

25. Do birds
have
lunchtimes?

26. What matters in teaching
Ensure collaboration
Provide challenge
Make concepts explicit
Make learning active & engaging
Develop well-paced lessons with high levels of interaction
Support independent learning
Build in feedback and reflection
Share expectations and standards
Teaching
approaches

27. It’s the classroom, stupid!
journeytoexcellence.org.uk

28. The big ten classroom factors?
having a positive attitude
the development of a pleasant social / psychological climate in the classroom
having high expectations of what pupils can achieve
lesson clarity
effective time management
strong lesson structuring
the use of a variety of teaching methods
using and incorporating pupils’ ideas
using appropriate and varied questioning
[Reynolds: highreliabilityschools.co.uk]

29. JTE and CfE
Curriculum for Excellence

32. CfE levels

33. Challenge
(and CfE levels)
Higher
order
learning
skills
Consolidating
Applying

34. Higher-order thinking
BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY Creating Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.   Evaluating Justifying a decision or course of action Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging    Analysing Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding   Applying Using information in another familiar situation Implementing, carrying out, using, executing   Understanding Explaining ideas or concepts Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining   Remembering Recalling information Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding  
Higher-order thinking 34

35. Learning! Thinking! Literacy: Numeracy: Wellbeing: Wellbeing:
Learning language
Thinking tools
Learning!
Thinking!
Numeracy:
Thinking about, understanding and relating to the environment
Wellbeing:
Care, participation
recognition, motivation
Wellbeing:
Emotional factors
Resilience

36. Literacy, numeracy, thinking
journeytoexcellence.org.uk

37. CfE and JTE
Future

38. TED.com 20th Century to 21st Century Interactive ….. Participative
Stable ….. Agile
Subjects ….. Projects
Delivered wisdom ….. User generated
One size fits all ….. Personalisation
National ….. Global
One to many ….. Peer to peer
Curriculum-centred…..Learner-centred
TED.com

39. Trends
More old people than young
Competition for well educated people
Technology accelerates everything
Millennium generation – solutions
Generation E – stability, security
Learning, re-learning, re-learning
No status quo – disruptive innovation
Choices based on ethics and values
Personal search – portfolio of beliefs
Preparing for future jobs that don’t yet exist

40. The E generation
journeytoexcellence.org.uk

41. Innovative and creative
Able to cross boundaries
Adaptable and flexible
Analytical and critical in thinking
Can problem solve
Personal development
Technologically literate

42. STARS analysis
Strengths
Treats
Allies
Radicals
Successes

43. Leadership for learning – children’s views
It’s more fun to colour outside the lines.
Ask ‘Why?’ until you understand.
Make up the rules as you go along.
It doesn’t matter who started it.
You sometimes have to take tests before you finish studying.
If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse.
Keep knocking till someone opens the door.
You can’t ask to start over when you’re losing.

44. journeytoexcellence.org.uk
Thank you!