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Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools

Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools. Instructional Rounds Experiences Friday 14 th October. Instructional Rounds @ Homebush West Public School. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools. Overview HWPS experience

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Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools

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  1. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools Instructional Rounds Experiences Friday 14th October Instructional Rounds @ Homebush West Public School

  2. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Overview • HWPS experience • Actions and personal impact since IR for teachers and executive • Knowledge gained from IR in other schools

  3. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • HWPS Experience

  4. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • School Context • Excellence in creative and performing arts, community engagement, innovative middle school program, student welfare, technology. • 95% of students NESB (Chinese, Korean, Sri Lankan, Indian, and Arabic). • Collaborative, collegial quality teaching.

  5. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • C4E strategies which complement IR • promoting and demonstrating quality teaching through classroom and school-wide practice in improving student learning outcomes; • providing quality supervision, mentoring and support to early career teachers; • providing ongoing professional development aligned to teaching standards; • working with other schools in the Centre for Excellence cluster to strengthen the quality of teaching to improve student learning outcomes.

  6. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Developing Our Problem of Practice What examples of differentiated content, process, product or learning environment did you see in writing lessons? • HWPS discussing ‘differentiation’ for aprox 3 years. • FoR strategies focus on ‘differentiation’. • L3 and Literacy Continuum ‘best practice’. • C4E plan ‘Quality Teaching’ elements • Improve student outcomes, student growth.

  7. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Staff Perspectives on Instructional Rounds Pre Rounds

  8. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Staff Perspectives on Instructional Rounds Post Introductory Presentation

  9. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • IR Classroom Visit Timetable *Kristy Bentley (HWPS) recording/documenting process

  10. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Staff Perspectives on Instructional Rounds Post Rounds

  11. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Actions since IR for Executive • Clarifying what we already do and what we can improve on • Developing a highly informedand resourced plan of action for 2012-2014 school plan

  12. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Future Actions • Strategic • sustainable • achievable • Purposeful • measurable

  13. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Embed the rationale and purpose for differentiation • Share data and strategy to ‘move the middle’ and extend attainment.

  14. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Continue and extend conversations about differentiation. • Blogging, professional reading circle, wiki • Executive, stage meetings, TPL, SDD • Document our existing practices- Bushy Tales

  15. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Expand knowledge and experience of differentiation. • Develop staff expertise • Implement trials • Embed QT practices • Structured feedback/observation process • Classroom visits /videos/mini IR internal model • Consultant support

  16. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Effect change…within writing programs. • Programming pro-forma changes- to inc differentiation • Provision of checklists/scaffolds in classrooms • Link to 21st C learning tools and strategies • ASR and 3 year school plan inclusion • Australian Curriculum readiness

  17. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Adequately resource differentiation • ICT 3 year plan • New resourcing 2012, end of capital works • Independent learning centres

  18. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Personal impact- Rebecca • Ability to focus on exactly what I’m looking to observe- give meaningful feedback • Rich discussions with colleagues- what does ‘good’ look like? • Reflect on own teaching

  19. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Actions since IR for Classroom teachers • Sharing of findings to staff • Access to readings in Wiki • Breaking 1-size-4-all mould

  20. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Personal impact- Samson • Sharing of the power of observations (Blog, Practicum students, colleagues) • Conscious – Is differentiation happening? • QTF – Self-reflection

  21. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • Knowledge gained from other IR visits • What to look for in regards to POP • Another school’s POP, but still very relevant to HWPS • What students/teachers are doing and saying? • Embed/share knowledge of quality feedback.

  22. Centre for Excellence I Community of Schools • blogED • https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/blog/128739-instructionalroundsreflection/ • Self-reflection tool • Share-relate-respond • Archived/accessible – LIMITED/DET/GLOBAL

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