In 2011, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) published a Teaching and Learning Toolkit, designed to help schools decide how best to spend the Pupil Premium in order to close the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. From 2010-2014, James and Kate designed and developed a whole school, evidence-based approach to narrowing the attainment gap while raising standards overall.
This approach met with considerable success, closing the Pupil Premium gap from 25% to 2% in the space of one school year, and resulted in the best set of exam results in their school’s history. In this hands-on one day workshop the tutors will share a range of practical real world techniques for closing the Pupil Premium Gap “from the bottom up”. Delegates will work collaboratively to develop context-specific action plans to help them replicate this success in their own schools.
Course aims:
9:30 | Registration and Refreshments | 14:00 | Audit: How Ready is My School? |
10:00 | What is the Attainment Gap? Why does it exist? What can be done about it? | 14:30 | Action planning: how to implement Evidence Based Change |
10:30 | The importance of speaking and listening (oracy) | 15:15 | Sharing (and tweaking) our planning |
11:15 | Coffee | 15:45 | Course Close |
11:30 | How to develop a Whole School Language of Learning | ||
12:15 | A Framework for Implementing Evidence Based Change | ||
13:00 | Restaurant lunch |
James is a lead professional for science at a secondary school in Sussex. He has an MA in Person Centred Education and, in conjunction with his teaching responsibilities, is currently completing a PhD at Cambridge focusing on evidence-based improvements to schools' curricula and pedagogy.
Kate has spent the last 12 years working to develop evidence-based approaches to improving outcomes for disadvantaged young people. She is currently working an Educational Consultant to develop her ideas more widely. Kate is also the founder of a charity that helps provide education for refugees.
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