itslearning pupil premium webinar with marc rowland
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Marc Rowland is Deputy Director of the National Education Trust and author of a new book called A Practical Guide to the Pupil Premium. Marc gives essential information and advice to help schools make the most of the Pupil Premium grant and improve outcomes for disadvantaged learners. The author visited more than 100 schools over two years and here he shares examples of innovation and excellence in their use of the additional funding.TRANSCRIPT
Pupil Premium Webinarwith Marc Rowland
Deputy Director of the National Educational Trust
Kat ThorneDirector of Educational Solutions
AboutMarc Rowland
Deputy Director of the National Educational Trust
www.nationaleducationtrust.net
• Independent Foundation (2006)
• Good Practice and Innovation
• Policy to the Classroom
• Events
• School Improvement
• Debate
• Marc R (PP, TA Standards & More)
• NET at forefront of PP Policy
• 120 Schools
• Numerous Events
• Warwickshire, Sheffield, Essex
• EEF
• http://www.johncattbookshop.com/a-practical-guide-to-the-pupil-premium
Background of the book
A Practical Guide to the Pupil
Premium
www.nationaleducationtrust.net
Variation…
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Top Tips
Active Ingredients…
• Leadership & High Expectations
• High Expectations
• Focus on the Classroom
• Accountability
• Robust Evaluation
LeadershipWhere is your money spent?
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Leadership… continued
- Venn: Pupil Premium are not a homogenous group… what are the barriers to learning for the disadvantaged children in your school?
- What are the barriers to improving learning for your teachers? Time, CPD?
- Pupil Premium Champion
- Share ideas (in school and outside of school)
- What are active ingredients of schools doing well?
- Negative attitudes to learning?
- Attendance
- Parental engagement: Are your parents ‘hard to reach’ or are you a ‘hard to reach’ school?
- Teachers feel accountable for outcomes.
Leadership… continued
High Expectations?
Focus on the Classroom: The key to success - Disproportionate effect of teaching quality on disadvantaged pupils.
- Can teachers articulate your vision for disadvantaged learners?
- ‘What do you expect from these children?’
- What are the active ingredients for successful learners: The Rosendale approach
- Metacognition & Feedback… quality counts!
- Action research in the classroom
- Teachers now barriers best: links to intervention.
Top Tips!
Accountability
Pupil premium – two main changes to Inspection Handbook in July 14 1. Assessing whether a school is closing the gap
Clearer advice in the ‘Achievement of Pupils’ section, with a much stronger emphasis on the progress and attainment of disadvantaged pupils at the school compared with other pupils nationally
“Inspectors must take particular account of the progress made by disadvantaged pupils compared with that made nationally by other pupils with similar starting points, and the extent to which any gaps in this progress, and consequently in attainment, are closing.” (p 196)
2. Recommending a pupil premium review
Evaluation
• Evaluation should not be about proving that something worked. It’s about finding out whether something has worked. This is about cultural change in schools. Celebrate a teacher finding out that an initiative has not worked – it means you may save time and energy (much needed in every school that I have ever visited).
• To evaluate effectively, you have to be clear about what the
outcomes will be: • Not ‘We need to improve attendance’ but ‘We need to improve
attendance by x % by dd/mm by…’
Evaluation continued…• When evaluating, remember to evaluate the process as well as the outcome. Don’t just
abandon a breakfast club because it hasn’t improved attendance. Check whether the breakfast club was any good! This helps prevent school leaders from throwing darts blindly.
• Whether it’s a breakfast club or technology, the same fundamentals still apply.
• Relentless sense of follow up, whether this is about a Pupil Premium Champion or Metacognition in the classroom.
• A crucial thing for school leaders to reflect on is whether any changes to marking are having an impact on outcomes, and why… Cycle of follow up and review.
‘Teachers evaluating their impact every day: all good things come from here…’
At itslearning we listen to what you want to achieve. We tailor our solution to fit your needs. We are outcome
focused.
We are not just a learning platform. We are so much more.
www.itslearning.co.uk
Come to our stand 362 to meet Marc Rowland in person and talk to us about how we can help you to reach your Pupil Premium Goals.
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Questions?
Kat ThorneDirector of Educational Solutions
Mobile +44 7730 521679
Twitter kat_thorne_uk
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