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/Short Stay School 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 and latest initiatives 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 national changes.
... more information
... also available as a training course
• Self-Evaluation – Evidence Ready for Inspection?
Implications for Special and Mainstream Schools, PRUs/Short Stay Schools and Specialist SEN Providers with a particular focus on Leadership and Management.
- How to complete your school Self Evaluation and Ofsted SEF/SIEF.
- 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, Learning and Assessment
- Making judgements - examining the criteria.
- Writing the evidence - matching the observation, grade and words.
- Giving feedback well.
- Developing competences in teaching - polishing performance.
- Improving the use of assessment and recording linked to teaching and learning.
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... also available as a training course
• Involving Pupils and their Parents/Carers 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 and carers 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 achievement and progress of individuals, vulnerable 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 Results 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/writing objectives and 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.