Increasing Attainment

Neil Greenough

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Jul 12, 2003, 7:57:24 AM7/12/03

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Hi all,

I am currenty a maths teacher in a secondary (high) school. I have recently
applied for the post of a year head. I have been given a few hints about
what the questions in the interview will be about.

Could anybody give me any ideas about how to increase attainment within a
secondary school year? Of course, I would have to think about students'
current levels of attainment and split them up into different levels of
ability. I was thinking of some reward scheme, however I think that this may
increase bullying towards the "brighter" pupils!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

JoL

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Jul 12, 2003, 8:38:38 AM7/12/03

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How about the year head and others in leadership roles in the school
mentoring those pupils that have been identified as underachieving
(according to CATS, mock papers etc) in order to boost their performance and
improve behaviour?

Jo

Greg Wright

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Jul 12, 2003, 4:48:51 PM7/12/03

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Make sure prpoer study habits are encouraged from the start (year 7). It is
important to build a firm foundation for learning during later years. a
foundation to learn on.

hope this helps, and good luck

Greg

PS Why the heck does ANYONE want to be a Year head?

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John Gregory

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Jul 12, 2003, 5:39:24 PM7/12/03

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You need to get into data analysis in quite a big way. CATS Tests, CEM
Tests, KS2 to KS3 and KS3 to KS4 Predictions. Meat and grist I would
think for a Maths teacher. Find out who does this now, it will be
someone on the Leadership Team. They should really provide you with
the basics. What MIS do you use, this should give you a starting
point.

JLG

David Longley

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Jul 15, 2003, 7:22:40 AM7/15/03

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In article <bff0540b.0307...@posting.google.com>, John
Gregory <jlgr...@lycos.co.uk> writes

Some professional support may be required too. If you've got someone
with post graduate training in psychology they might be able to help,
but this sort of thing, if done properly, tends to be full time job for
several people for a school I would have thought.

I used to work as an applied psychologist in our Prison Service. Most of
my work was on the identification and selection of control problem
inmates and over time this extended to regime monitoring, a system for
individual Sentence Management which collected and analysed attainment
data on a weekly basis. It was piloted in adult and Young Offender
establishments, and coupled to an Incentives and Privileges system. All
this was computerized.

Most important of all you need all staff to co-operate and the SMT to
give it very clear support.

cf. papers at:

http://wwww.longley.demon.co.uk

particularly the files on regimes and "What can be Managed" and the
intro to "Frag.htm".

People tend to underestimate and therefore under-resource the Management
Information Systems. It requires serious investment.

--
David Longley