Raising standards through

international links

School partnerships

Professional development

Accreditation & awards

Schools Online

Schools Online Quantitative

Qualitative(E.g. funded)

(Online/easy-access)

British Council Schools

Policy dialogue &

reform, benchmarkin

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Exchanges & long term visits

British Council Schools

• ENRICHED EDUCATION – Sustained collaboration between the UK and other countries on professional development, curricula & systemic reform and policy dialogues provides improved educational outcomes for young people.

• GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP INCREASED - Young people and educators demonstrate an increased capacity in the skills, understanding and outlook required to work in a global economy and contribute responsibly to society, locally and globally.

British Council Schools• Find a partner school

• Start a conversation

• Share your learning – resources, activities, project forums

• Gain recognition – International School Award

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creative

makes connectionsquestioning

communicates well

confident global citizen

thirst for knowledge

curious

generates ideas

multilingual

perseveres

listens and reflects

critical self-editing

skilled shaper

literate

willing to have a go

thinks for themselves

shows initiative

gets on well with othersmakes a difference

acts with integrityself-esteem

‘can do’ attitude

learns from mistakes

independent

With thanks to QCDA

How to Build a Student for the 21st Century. TIME Magazine, December

18, 2006

“This is a story about…whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can’t think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad, or speak a language other than English.”

21 century skills

• Core subjects, learning skills, collaboration, cooperation, communication, creativity, organisation, problem solving, digital literacy, self direction and social responsibility

• Languages Intercultural and knowledge are central

• English children are at a disadvantage in Europe – only 3 years of languages as compulsory – all other EU countries (except Ireland) 8-15 years

A great school partnership

All sounds great – but what about my A-Cs/ SATS / OfSTED ?

• Adds value to teaching and learning – see next slide

OfSTED 4 new key priorities

Achievement - real purpose for a real audienceQuality of teaching- opportunity to reflect on own practiceQuality of Leadership and Management- reflection,

benchmarking, bringing back good ideasBehaviour and Safety of pupils- teaching promotes “good

social and moral development”; pupils contributing to the school and wider community

We learn best when there is:• emotional engagement

• real purpose

• real audience

• active involvement

Towards “outstanding”A report by Owen Education for CfBT called, “To the next level: good schools becoming outstanding” has aimed to analyse the processes by which good schools move on to become outstanding. Issues examined in the research included:

the common features of leadership, organisation and culture which help good schools in their journey towards categorisation as outstanding by Ofsted;

the story of those schools which have moved to the next level and what are the obstacles facing those schools still on the journey

the kinds of support (including collaboration with other schools) that are most effective in achieving the transformation.

“A number of schools commented that a key feature of the journey from good to outstanding was the significant number of staff working on external agendas, sometimes linked to training-school status. These schools enjoyed partnerships with other schools and education providers; their staff were constantly bringing good ideas back into their classrooms from external sources. One head teacher described the outstanding school to be one which is, naturally and in all that it practises, ‘an outward-facing school’.”