D&R Hubs for Personalising Learning

Assessment for Learning at

Valentines High School

CurriculumCurriculum

Design&OrganisationDesign&Organisation

New technologiesNew technologies

Assessment for LearningAssessment for Learning

Workforce DevelopmentWorkforce Development

Student voiceStudent voice

Learning to learnLearning to learn

Advice&guidanceAdvice&guidance

Mentoring&CoachingMentoring&Coaching

The nine interconnected gateways to PL

• Appealing professional practices

• Entrepreneurial mediating innovators

• Network infrastructure

• Networking culture

• A supportive enabling environment

Five Critical Conditions

The three tasks of D&R

1. Knowledge creation or production -how to make it disciplined

2. Knowledge capture - in what form is the knowledge available & to whom?

3. Knowledge transfer - moving it from one person or institution to another

Learning how to do it

Learning from doing it

A network… is a group oforganisations working together to solve problems or issuesthat are too large for any oneorganisation to handle on its own.

(Priscilla Wohlstetter, 2003)

Creating an innovation network!

Sharing good practice versus

knowledge transfer

I inform you about it

versus

You can do what I can do

Learning how to transfer knowledge

so…

• Decentralised

• Distributed

• Disciplined

The 3 Ds of Innovation

Introducing AFL to VHSWhy does it appeal? Who are the Leaders?Incremental or radical?How is knowledge transferred?What constituted a supportive

environment?

Introducing AFL to VHSWhy does it appeal?

• Anecdotal e.g. Year 8 more engaged• Research with control group in English• Personal experience with skills for GCSE

course work and KS3 enquiry skills• Lesson objectives made more relevant to

student learning by using Key Questions.

Introducing AFL to VHS

KS3 KS4 KS5

CLASS

DEPARTMENT

(Incremental or radical?)

Introducing AFL to VHS

Incremental or radical?• Comment only marking – ‘radical’• Key Questions – ‘incremental’• Peer/Self Assessment - ‘incremental or

radical’

Introducing AFL to VHS

Who are the leaders ?• Teachers with vision

• Lead departments

• Leading Teachers group

• Leadership Team

Introducing AFL to VHSHow is knowledge transferred?

• Paired Research Lessons• Collaborative planning• Lesson observation and feed back

• Cross curricular Group• Departmental meetings

• Teaching and Learning Focus

Introducing AFL to VHSWhat constituted a supportive environment?

• Open and regular discussion about Teaching and Learning

• A commitment to resource teachers to plan and work together

• A willingness to allow experimentation and teachers to make mistakes

• Clear Guidelines and Expectations• A focus on AFL in Lesson observations• A revision of Assessment, Good Lesson and Marking

Policies

Introducing AFL to VHSWhere next for Valentines?

• More effective use of AFL within VHS• More staff involved in development• Training of new staff

• Networking with other schools by using a similar model.