Leading Learning and Teaching: Making Effective Use of Data

15th May 2007Glenavon Hotel

Programme

0930 - 1000 Registration (Tea/Coffee)

1000 - 1020 Introduction

Welcome & Context Setting

1020 - 1040 Self Evaluation for Improvement

1040 - 1100 Data Requirements for Inspection

1100 - 1130 Tea/Coffee

1130 - 1150 Case Study 1: Using Data to Inform Learning

1150 - 1210 Case Study 2: Using Data to Improve Communication

1210 - 1230 C2k Maximising Potential

1230 - 1330 Lunch

1330 - 1350 Case Study 3: Monitoring Delivery of Planned Curriculum

1350 - 1410 Case Study 4: Creating the Culture

1410 - 1430 The Way Forward

1430 - 1445 CASS – School Development Planning

1445 - 1500 DE – School Improvement

1500 - 1515 Questions to the panel

1515 Conference Close

Leading Learning and Teaching: MakingEffective Use of Data

Aims of the Conference are to:

• raise school leaders’ awareness of the data available in their management information systems;

• share with delegates how ETI utilise data in the inspection process;

• promote the effective use of data for self evaluation and to improve the quality of learning and teaching;

• share current good practice in the use of data; and

• provide delegates with opportunities to consider the issues raised.

“Preparing for the Future: By Examining the Past: LOOKING IN:

not out”

Max DuPree

• A Spirit of Enquiry

• An Important Theme

• A Recurrent Theme

• A Timely Theme

A vital theme

“Systematic data collation/analysis and USE … can lead to the improvement of education as has no other educational innovation of the last century.”

McLean 1995

A challenging theme

“By emphasising the sheer quality of information, the technocrats have it exactly wrong: if only we can provide greater access to more and more information for more and more individuals, we have it made. Instead what you get is information glut”.

M Fullan

A complex theme

Data Information Knowledge Practitioner wisdom grounded

on a mix of intuition

and empirical evidence.

• No limit can be set to the power of a teacher … Yet no career can so nearly approach zero in its effects!

• It is good because we’ve been doing it for a long time or is it good because we have tangible evidence that it works.

• Demythogising – identify the real problem

Decision Making based on intuition, convenience, tradition

Data Driven Decision Making

Budgetary decisions based on prior practice

Scattered Staff Development Programmes

Staff allocations based on interest and availability

Staff meetings (inc. crucially SMT meetings) that focus on operations and the dissemination of information

Budget Allocations … based on data informed needs

Focused Staff Development as an improvement strategy to address documented needs

Staff allocations based on skills needed as indicated by the data

Staff meetings that focus on strategies and issues raised by the school’s data

“The collective capacity of Principal and teachers to examine student performance data, make critical sense of it in the disaggregate, develop action plans based on the data and to take action which is monitored.”

M Fullan

“The technical quality of knowledge and its usability will be superficial unless it is accompanied by social and moral depth.”

M Fullan