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Maria Landy
The Importance of Teaching
The Schools White Paper 2010
with a focus on SEN
Maria’s thought for today:
Let us remember: TEACHERS
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Details of The White Paper
• Published Nov 2010
• 91 pages
• Forwords by Prime Minister and Deputy
Prime Minister
• Executive Summary
• 8 chapters – main points in each chapter
follows
• Advised to read full text if you can – lots
re Special Educational Needs and
Deprivation – Lots of changes proposed
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The White Paper – a new
approach to school improvement
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School driven
Self improving
Devolved funding
Less intervention more direct action
Less paperwork
Accountability at school level
QUANGOs cut
Strong push for Academies plus Free
Schools and Studio Schools plus
alternative providers much less power of
the Local Authorities
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1) Introduction - the future of
schools
• There is much good to be celebrated
- but we can do much better
• Decline in the study of academic
subjects
• Deprived students suffer most
• School system performing below its
potential
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2) Teaching and Leadership
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High quality recruits – a 2:2 or above
Returning troops – troops to teachers
Training more focussed on classroom skills
Teaching schools- 500 by 2015 – reflects
secondary model
More freedom to manage performance
Double the numbers of National and Local
Learning Leaders
Cut bureaucracy
One in four Headteachers due to retire in
next three years
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2) Teaching and Leadership
• Open classroom culture is vital
• More SEN training by reforming
initial teacher training
• Teachers learning from each other
• Systematic synthetic phonics best
way to teach reading
• National network of teaching schools
• No 3 hour limit for teacher
observations (para 2.26)
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Flexible teacher pay at end of
current pay freeze –
• Encourage use of incentives to recruit and
retain best staff
• Shorten and simplify capability procedures
• Review of existing measures of teacher
performance and conduct
• Teacher standards will have stronger focus
on teaching English, Maths and SEN plus
how to manage poor behaviour
• Schools to decide what hours to work
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3)BEHAVIOUR
• Increased disciplinary powers – beyond
the gate
• Anonymity for accused teachers
• A fresh approach to PRUs, Homophobic
bullying, Exclusions and appeals around
extreme violence
• Encouraging new providers to set up Free
and Studio Schools
• Focus OfSTED more on behaviour, safety
and bullying
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4) Curriculum Assessment and
Qualifications
• Slimmer curriculum- knowledge
based – more flexible methodology
• Phonics screening – decoding for six
year olds
• English Baccalaureate
• Review of Early Years and Vocational
Education
• International benchmarking
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ROSLA
• Proper assessment at each
transitional stage - 6- simple test of
ability to decode words. National
assessments also at 11 and 16.
• Hold independent review of Key
Stage two testing
• Raise to 17 by 2013 and then 18 by
2015 the age expected to participate
in education or training
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5) New Schools System
• Academies – can pay staff more and
extend school hours - Academy chains
• Special School Academies see para 5.11
page 54 – good with outstanding features
• Autonomy combined with accountability
• Free Schools
• Local Authorities critical new role:
champions of choice- securing options for
parents
• Supporting vulnerable children
• Challenging schools that fail to improve!
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5) New School System
• Academies top-down for outstanding
& bottom-up for failing
• Encouraging collaboration school to
school with several examples
incorporated in the White Paper
• Sufficiency of places
• Different risk management systems
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6) Accountability
• More to parents and less to central
government
• Transparency-on line tool for parents
• Governors better equipped to
challenge (see page 72 for 10 key ?)
• Focus on education as a business
• Proportionality of OfSTED inspections
• Can request and pay for OfSTED
inspection
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7) School Improvement
• Makes clear that schools –‘governors,
head teachers and teachers’ have
responsibility for improvement. If schools
are providing a good education they will
be free to set their own targets and
improvement priorities.
• Schools below the floor standard not
progressing, or are judged inadequate will
be subject to intervention with the
presumption they will be converting into
Academy Status.
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Floor Standards
• Attainment and Progress– 35%KS4
5x A*-Cs and 60% at KS2- Level 4+
• Progression rates critical
• Pupil Premium ( FSM) – a measure?
• LA to support poor performance
• LAs drastically reduced funds
• No centrally driven strategies
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Below floor – poor schools
• New higher and more sophisticated floor
standards – bar raised again!
• Relentless and robust focus on
underperformance
• Academy solutions
• Families of schools – pyramid- cluster
models
• Teaching Schools
• NLEs/LLEs-” mutual support not rescue”
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National Leaders in Education/Local Leaders in Education
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8) School Funding
• Pupil Premium (based on FSM)
• Per pupil funding too variable (p.79)
• National consultation
• Less bureaucratic capital funding
processes
• Needs appropriate incentives for
schools to attract poorer students
• Money distributed more wisely and
fairly
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The Government will:
– Target more resources on the most
deprived pupils over the next four
years through a new Pupil Premium £2.5 billion
– consult on a fairer national funding
formula based on the needs of pupils
– Increase transparency and show what
schools spend their funds on
– End disparity in funding for 16 to 18
year olds between schools and colleges
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Read it!
• Important to read the full document
• Keep up to date and look out for SEN
Green Paper due Feb 2011
• The Early Years and Vocational Education
Reports due out in Spring 2011
• The Chinese curse evidently is:
• “ May you live in interesting times”
• Lots of changes on the way………
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Maria Landy is a specialist in:
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School Improvement
Governor support and development
Supporting school’s self evaluation
Verifying Senior Leaders judgements
Mentoring new Headteachers & Senior Leaders
Observing teaching and Learning
Giving direct feedback to teachers
Headteacher performance review
Presentation and analysis of outcomes & data
Preparing for OfSTED inspections
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• If you find this helpful please let me
know- I hope it saves you precious
time!
• Contacting Maria Landy
Tel: Mobile 07803 602434
E-mail: [email protected] .
Website: www.marialandy.co.uk
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