Effectiveness Flashcards
Effectiveness
attempts to disentangle what the students brings to the school.
the experience they have at the school
and how they influence attainment, progress and development.
Gray 1995
School quality can be assessed by 3 performance indicators
- Academic progress
- Pupil satisfaction
- Pupil-teacher relationships
Key definition of an effective school
one in which students progress further than might be expected from consideration of its intake.
It adds value.
Stoll and Fink 1996
Three aspects of ineffective schools
- Lack of vision
- Unfocused leadership
- Dysfunctional staff relationships
In addition - ineffective classroom practices:
- Inconsistent approaches
- lack of challenge
- low levels of teacher-student involvement
- high noise levels
- negative feedback and criticism
- Describe the attributes of an effective educational institution. If you became the leader of an ineffective institution, how would you improve it? Your discussion should consider:
· professional relationships,
· organisational arrangements, and
opportunities for learning.
An effective school:
- A robust curriculum - establishes starting points, broad
- Timetable - allows access by being flexible
- Teachers - collegiality, collaborate, innovative
- Environment - safe and secure. Learning is visible
- Well being - core values, pupils are happy, curriculum build character
- Professional Development - goals, motivated staff
- SLT - trust, dialogue, high expectations
- Assessment - evaluate SIP progress
relationships
- Symbolic lens
- Political lens
- Human Resource lens
- Collegial
- Distributed leadership
organisational arrangements
- Distribute power
- expertise and opportunity
- structure - flattened
- structural lens
opportunities for learning
- QA
- teacher best resource
Discuss what is meant by an effective educational organisation, drawing on examples (these can be taken from the VLE and/or your own experience) to illustrate your argument.
Effectiveness defintion - the experience they have at the school and how they influence attainment, progress and development.
- one in which students progress further than might be expected from consideration of its intake.
It adds value.
whole school
- distributed leadership
- collegial
- sets culture end ethos
- culture
department level effective departments 1. collegial management 2. strong vision 3. good organisation 4. good monitoring 5. clear structure to lessons 6. strong focus on students 7. strong focus on T&L
classroom level
- expectation
- management
- clarity
- instructional quality
An effective school:
- A robust curriculum - establishes starting points, broad
- Timetable - allows access by being flexible
- Teachers - collegiality, collaborate, innovative
- Environment - safe and secure. Learning is visible
- Well being - core values, pupils are happy, curriculum build character
- Professional Development - goals, motivated staff
- SLT - trust, dialogue, high expectations
- Assessment - evaluate SIP progress
Gray 1995. School quality can assessed:
- Academic progress
- Pupil satisfaction
- Pupil-teacher relationships
Whole school level
style and type of leadership and whole school culture and ethos.
- distributed leadership
- collegial
- sets culture end ethos
- culture
Indirect effect - leaders affect the culture as a whole and processes in classroom which have the direct impact.
Department level
more difference happens within schools
effective departments
- collegial management
- strong vision
- good organisation
- good monitoring
- clear structure to lessons
- strong focus on students
- strong focus on T&L
Classroom level
- expectation
- management
- clarity
- instructional quality
VLE
An effective school
- A robust curriculum - establishes starting points, broad
- Timetable - allows access by being flexible
- Teachers - collegiality, collaborate, innovative
- Environment - safe and secure. Learning is visible
- Well being - core values, pupils are happy, curriculum build character
- Professional Development - goals, motivated staff
- SLT - trust, dialogue, high expectations
- Assessment - evaluate SIP progress
