Transcript SETPOINT Berkshire

Working Towards Success at 16-19 and Beyond
Outstanding Teaching and
Learning in the Sixth Form
Presenters
John Philip
Alison Seymour
Little Heath School
Deputy Headteacher
Student Voice Leader
Easthampstead Park Conference Centre
Friday 26th February 2010
Why listen to us?
Little Heath has sustained outstanding value-added ratings, for example
ALPS 2 in 2004 – 2009 inclusive.
In 2008 Little Heath School’s KS4 – KS5 CVA was 1040.6 and in 2009 it is
1039.2. (Top 5%)
In 2009 our KS2 – KS4 CVA is 1011.8.
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The sixth form is outstanding
The progress made by students of all abilities is outstanding.
The exceptionally good progress that students make is underpinned by
outstanding teaching and learning.
The success of the sixth form is a direct result of exceptionally strong
leadership, excellent relationships between staff and students and the positive
attitudes to learning by very committed, articulate and mature sixth formers
Grade: 1
Outstanding
(also achieved in 2005)
OFSTED: February 2009
A teacher’s perspective
• How often does your school focus training
on teaching and learning in KS5?
• How often is good practice shared within
your department and across your school?
• Is Advanced Level teaching a dark art,
distinctively different from KS3 & KS4?
• Is Sixth Form teaching & learning
sometimes the low man on the totem pole?
Your Classroom
Your castle or your dungeon?
A student’s perspective
• Alison is currently in Y13 studying for A
Levels;
• She is student voice leader on the Sixth
Form Committee;
• From September 2010 she will be employed
as Student Voice Assistant, working
alongside our Student Voice Co-ordinator,
Jon Linz.
A student’s perspective
• Lessons are more informal;
• Smaller and more personal classes make learning easier in sixth
form classes and help to build a good teacher/student working
relationship – a greater respect from teacher to student and
student to teacher;
• A good teacher really understands their students and is able to
build a relationship with them that creates a better learning
atmosphere;
• Independent learning empowers students by giving them the
responsibility for their own learning;
• Sixth Form also provides the sense of being in a community which
increases the student sense of belonging and purpose in the
school;
• Students can be developed for a career path, whatever that may
be.
Raising the quality of
teaching and learning in the
Sixth Form
What are the ‘key ingredients’ of outstanding
teaching and learning in the Sixth Form?
1. On your own write down 5 things you think are essential.
2. In pairs, share your ideas and agree and prioritise them.
3. Then we will feedback to create draft framework.
One I cooked earlier!
• From 2003 to 2006 as KS5 Leader I led a KS5 Teaching
and Learning Group containing a volunteer representative
from each subject taught in the Sixth Form;
• We created the mind-map on the next slide as a set of
ingredients for outstanding teaching & learning;
• The process was more important than the product;
• This work continues under our current KS5 Leader, Gisella
Vignali.
• In 2010 / 11 one role for Alison will be to challenge our
perceptions and support an even better understanding of
effective teaching and learning across the school.
Lessons that have pace, rigour and,
if possible, thrill: the joy of
learning / discovery /
accomplishment
Practice
Testing
Working through past
questions
Regular reinforcement of key learning
objectives; testing from an early point
(before half-term in first term in Y12)
Lessons that have
clear objectives
and an overt link
to the
examination /
assessment
requirements
An effective
scheme of
work for
teachers and
students to
follow
If the 3 part lesson is a good idea at
KS3 and KS4, what about KS5?
Clear outline of unit and its assessment
requirements: the ‘road map’: to include feedback
to students from Exam Reports / Exam board
meetings
But support in
place for those
who require
more help
Teacher
Well-organised
Positive
Confident
Helpful
Approachable
Outside the Box / Classroom
Students able and willing to
extend their learning beyond
the classroom, reinforcing
skills and knowledge learnt in
lessons.
Development of Sixth Form
areas of Little Heath
Website to give the students
the ability to access our
classrooms at home.
Modelling of good answers;
examples written by teacher or
student. Use of relevant sections of
mark schemes and Examiner’s
Reports
Good relationships between students
and the teacher. Teacher aims to treat
students as adults, expecting in turn an
adult response / approach.
Regular feedback (e.g. through
marking & individual
discussion) that enables the
individual student to target
improvements in the standard
of his or her work by
understanding how this can be
done.
Students increasingly
encouraged and able to take
responsibility for their own
learning: professional
students. Students developing
into independent learners.
Students understand the AS / A Level system, e.g.
the relationship between AS and A and the
importance of UMS marks.
Alps
John Philip
Little Heath School
[email protected]
Phone : 01189 427337