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Help with Assisted and Supported Self Evaluations

Maria can arrange to come to your school and help you inspect yourself by training you, your staff and governors – by working alongside, by joint observations and evaluations.

Here are some of the areas we could focus on:

• The Special School and PRU Curriculum - How to do it!

  • To provide support for Curriculum Co-ordinators.
  • To ensure you are up-to-date.
  • To provide practical good ideas to improve practice.
  • To use the most relevant aspects of the national strategies for pupils with SEN.

... also available as a training course

• How well do you PARRC?

How to Plan, Assess, Record, Report and Celebrate the progress of pupils with SEN over time.

  • How well do you PARRC?
  • How well do you keep evidence regarding Standards?
  • How to review and update your curriculum planning, especially in the light of the recent Education Act and the National Strategies.

... more information
... also available as a training course

• Self-Evaluation – Evidence Ready for Inspection?

Implications for Special and Mainstream Schools, PRUs, Centres and Specialists SEN Providers with a particular focus on Leadership and Management.

  • How to complete your school Self Evaluation and Ofsted SEF.
  • How to get your evidence ready.
  • How to set up your systems to self evaluate.

... more information
... also available as a training course

• How to Judge and Improve Teaching and Learning

  • Making judgements - examining the criteria.
  • Writing the evidence - matching the observation, grade and words.
  • Giving feedback well.
  • Developing competences in teaching - polishing performance.
  • Assessment and recording linked to teaching and learning.

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... also available as a training course

• Involving Pupils and their Parents in the Learning Process – Improving Teaching and Learning

  • Making individual targets clear for learners.
  • Making and using pupil version IEP targets.
  • Using targets and objectives well in lessons.
  • Involving parents in the learning process – extending time for learning.

... also available as a training course

• Analysing Pupil Progress Overtime

  • How to summarise and present achievement and standards.
  • How to analyse and take necessary action.
  • Having summary evidence ready to present during inspection.
  • Reporting progress of individuals, groups and the whole school.

... also available as a training course

• Focus on your Practice – how good is it?

  • External specialists view?
  • You choose the aspects to focus on.
  • Discuss your needs with Maria and she will design the advice, support and training to match!

• Monitoring the Curriculum together

  • Led by Maria Landy visiting classrooms and carrying out work scrutiny.
  • School based training for subject/phase/aspect leaders.
  • Joint monitoring.
  • Recognising and listing strengths, gaps and areas for development.
  • Collecting and presenting evidence well.

• Joint Work Sampling – doing it together!

  • All ages/phases – highest, average, lowest attainers.
  • P1 to NC8 – all levels.
  • What evidence of progress over time is there?
  • Evaluation analysis of IEPs, Annual Recievors and Outcomes.

... also available as a training course

• Performance Management (PM)

  • Training staff and governors in the process of judging performance.
  • Understanding the statutory nature of PM for teachers.
  • Observing colleagues at work and recording the evidence.
  • Feedback, improvement and Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
  • Agreeing and writing objections, clarifying the success criteria.
  • Keeping meaningful, workable records.

... also available as a training course

 

Ask us for our fees – they are tailored to your requirements.

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