During the first TLC meeting on high expectations staff
looked at the importance of having high expectations on all areas of school and
student life. Whether it is for punctuality, quality of
written or spoken work, work rate, behaviour, uniform, practical work, homework
or their interactions with one another it is important to ensure that we as teachers
have high expectations of our students in everything they do.
As TLC leaders we have decided that the areas that we can
make the biggest impact on our students are the following three:-
·
Stretch and challenge for all, with a focus on
mixed ability teaching and the sixth form.
·
Encouraging high expectations in the classroom.
·
Encouraging independent learning outside of the
lesson. With a possible focus on life
without levels.
During the session we looked at some case studies from
Ofsted as demonstrated on the slide below:-
We then asked staff to use the sheet below to highlight
their best strategies for driving high expectations in each of these areas:-
After this we share examples of best practice with the rest
of the TLC group. Examples of some of
the best ideas were:-
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Engagement cards
·
Learning contracts
·
Communication with home (letters of reflection)
·
Rewards
·
Learning outcomes all students achieve all
learning outcomes with different levels of support.
·
Questioning techniques thunks etc
·
Kagan structures (hogs and logs / expert
corner).
·
Stretch and challenge prize pot. (Top Philosopher Challenge)
·
Edmodo support group.
·
Different methods to demonstrate understanding
·
This week have I? (What should independent students be doing?)
·
Improve your competency (life without levels
badges).
Staff then completed some research into ideas for websites
such as; teach like a champion, the power of high expectations and ten
strategies for creating a classroom culture of high expectations.
Finally the teachers were given the chance to set targets on
what they wanted to try before our next TLC meeting.
Nicole and Richard
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