1. Please sit as follows:
Table 1 English Table 9 Hums
Table 2 English Table 10 Hums
Table 3 Maths Table 11 Technology
Table 4 Maths Table 12 Languages
Table 5 Science Table 13 PE
Table 6 Science Table 14 Art/ Mu/ Dr
Table 7 Science
Table 8 Hums
2. National expectations regarding the
teaching of the more able
Teaching sixth form students
Differentiation
Independent learning
3. Year 10 Newton
1.There are 90 students in 10n. How
many have the lowest average EPSIU
score for:
Behaviour
Effort
Homework?
4. 2. How many said that their target grades
are too high?
3. How many complained about getting
too much homework?
5. Good
The teaching is consistently effective in
ensuring that pupils are motivated and engaged.
The great majority of teaching is securing good
progress and learning. Teachers generally have
strong subject knowledge which enthuses and
challenges most pupils and contributes to their
good progress. Good and imaginative use is
made of resources, including new technology to
enhance learning…. Teachers listen to, observe
and question groups of pupils during lessons in
order to reshape tasks and explanations to
improve learning.
6. Outstanding
Teaching results in pupils making
exceptional progress. It is highly effective in
inspiring pupils and ensuring that they learn
extremely well. Excellent subject knowledge
is applied consistently to challenge and
inspire pupils. Resources, including new
technology, make a marked contribution to
the quality of learning, as does the precisely
targeted support provided by other adults….
Teachers systematically and effectively
check pupils’ understanding throughout
lessons, anticipating where they may need to
intervene and doing so with striking impact
on the quality of learning.
7. NAGTY Schools responsible
YG&T for provision
Hubs – Excellence
East
8. “Very able pupils in maintained primary
and secondary schools are often
insufficiently challenged by the work
they are set” (HMI, 1992).
and
“In the majority of schools the expectations
of very able pupils are not sufficiently
high. The provision for these pupils is
patchy and is not often seen as a
priority” (HMI, 1992).
9. Ofsted – 22% of secondary schools do an
“adequate” job with their most able
students
10. Conditions for Learning
A variety in provision and activities
Tasks are varied, customised and well
paced
11. Development for Learning
Activities are tailored to meet different
learning styles and interests
Learners are enabled to take charge of
their own learning through:
Structured independent and group
learning opportunities
Learning about learning
Systematic self-evaluation to improve
personal performance
12. Knowledge of Subjects/
Themes
Subject expertise stimulates and challenges
through sharing passion for the subject
Passion for the subject pervades the learning
The curriculum addresses the needs of
individuals through:
Working with learners to identify their needs
Adapting to meet those needs
Linking with personal interests and making
skilful use of grouping
Using a wide range of individual resources and
activities to ensure differentiation
14. Planning
Activities are planned which:
Increase complexity and depth
Add breadth through a broader range of
content, tasks and resources
Add tasks that are qualitatively different
HOTS, not MOTS
15. Engagement with learning
and learners
Teachers deploy a wide repertoire of
skills and resources to raise
achievement
Grouping allows for interaction and
independence
17. National Quality Standards
Effective Teaching and Learning Strategies
Entry – Teaching and learning are differentiated;
curriculum organisation is flexible with built-in choice,
enrichment and guidance.
Developing – Teaching and learning are diverse and
flexible; lesson plans contain strategies for challenge;
independent learning skills are developed; curriculum
offers opportunities to work beyond age group, at
greater speed, across curriculum subjects, according to
interest/ aptitudes
Exemplary – teaching and learning are challenging and
varied; independent learning is integral to in-class
provision; curriculum offers personalised learning
pathways to maximise individual potential.
18. Think of something that first awoke your
passion for your subject
Think of something that still makes you
passionate about your subject
Think of something that is good about
teaching
19. When did you last share those things with
the students you teach?
20. Teaching Sixth Form
Use of different text books
Questioning
Independent work, including research
High levels of support
Modifying and adapting lesson plans
Setting learning goals for individuals
21. Teaching Sixth Form
Every Child Matters – “we must focus on
enjoying and achieving as a key
outcome”
Focus on different groups of students
A*?
22. Quality of Provision
Results
Students’ work
Progress within a lesson
Progress over time
Teaching and learning
Curriculum
Guidance and support
> How the above meet the needs of the
most able
23. Villiers Park – common
problems
Underestimating the Lack of time invested in
ability of students developing students as
Excessive focus on learners and in inspiring
specification passion for the subject
Seeing provision for the Students too dependent
More Able as extra- on teachers,
curricular unaccustomed to
Staff (and thus students)
challenge
being trapped in the Lack of engagement,
exam results/ targets lack of independence,
cycle lack of motivation
Mediocre results >
cyclical process
24. Villiers Park – the way forward
1. Activate your most able students
2. Don’t allow provision for the more able to be an
optional extra
3. Reawaken teachers’ passion for their subject
4. Focus on teams
5. Develop your students as independent learners
25. In successful schools/
classrooms …
Students will: Ask about studying
Ask questions about the subject at
the work covered in university
the lesson Ask about careers
Go one step beyond related to that subject
the specification Tell teachers about
Ask for more feedback their extra-curricular
on how to improve activities
Ask for pointers to Show the passion for
more resources the subject that the
teacher shows them
26. Ideas
Find ways to incorporate
extension work into lessons
School should support
subject-specific teacher CPD,
not just specification-specific
Use occasional lessons, or Improves motivation
untaughts, or a specific week,
to do something “different” –
eg independent research/ Improves attainment
project work
Teachers should show their Improves engagement
passion for their subject, not
their hatred of the
specification Improves independence
Present the sixth form as a
fresh start, where all students
are able and motivated and
can become more so
27. Primary school model
What are the Individual
barriers? Subject/ Faculty
Whole School
28. I like independent work best.
Why?
Because you can get on with your work and you
don’t have to listen to the teacher and wait for
them to finish.
29. Independence
Independent students will work when the teacher is not there
Independent students produce better homework
Independent students release the teacher to provide more
individual extension and support
Plan activities that give students an element of control and
individual choice – increase the amount of this over time
Peer- and self-assessment foster independence when used
effectively
To be independent, students need to understand how to learn
Ensure that students always reflect on their independent
learning – use this reflection to plan
30. Confidence is key to
success
Students need to be Students should not be
confident… confident …
that they can that they will
succeed succeed
that they can that their ability will
become more able never diminish
that work will bring that intelligence
learning and means progress
progress
31. Independence, motivation and
rewards
Extrinsic Motivation Intrinsic Motivation
The learner relies on The learner is driven
external agents to by curiosity, passion
keep their focus. for knowledge and
These agents skills and the sense
include grades, of making progress.
praise and rewards. Learning is valued.
Their focus is on Their focus is on the
outcomes and process, which
products. brings its own
rewards.
32. Independence in the most able
Does not happen You don’t stop
automatically – they spoonfeeding by
need support, taking the spoon away
guidance. Again and – you have to teach
again, they ask for the child how to use it
more advice on how themselves
to get top grades,
more teacher time,
better resources, clear
information about
what is expected of
them, examples of top
grade work
33. London Gifted and Talented
The more able want: Findings:
To make choices Planning for the more
about their learning able and
To be given genuinely differentiating
investigative tasks downwards raises
To see the big picture
standards most
effectively
To work with
stimulating learning Focusing on the more
materials able drives whole
school improvement
34. London G&T – Effective
Provision
Independent Intellectual curiosity
learning High challenge
Effective questioning Critical and creative
Development of thinking
expertise Interdependent skills
Higher order Real world issues
thinking
Big ideas and
concepts
35. Personalised Learning –
The National Strategy
“tailoring teaching and learning to individual need”
“Planning for progression and differentiation are
fundamental”
“teaching and learning is characterised by
ambitious objectives, challenging personal targets,
rapid intervention and rigorous assessment to
check and maintain pupil progress.”
36. MI, etc.
Gardner Left and Right Brain
Linguistic Theory
Logical/ mathematical
Spatial
Musical
Gregorc
Kinaesthetic Concrete random
Interpersonal Concrete sequential
Intrapersonal Abstract random
Naturalistic
Abstract sequential
VAK
Kolb
37. Differentiated Provision –
Westminster Institute of
Education
1. By level – the level should be high enough to
interest and challenge
2. By pace – the pace should be adjusted to suit the
learner and the level of challenge
3. By complexity – this should reflect the capacity of
the learner and should encourage creative rather
than linear thought
4. By depth – this should enable the most able to
pursue areas of particular interest to the level of
an expert.
38. Activities for the more able should:
Allow individual Open up opportunities
response for research
Encourage creativity Involve abstract
and imagination concepts
Meet developmental Involve problem
stage rather than solving and decision
chronological age making
Stress process rather Encourage empathy
than content Provide opportunities
Encourage higher for leadership
level thinking skills Be difficult
Provide open-ended Build in failure
situations
39. Differentiation
By task – higher level materials and activities
By outcome – students respond to the same task
at different levels
By pace – able students can complete tasks at
greater speed
By grouping of students within the classroom
40. Types of Differentiation
1. By outcome – same task, 8. By use of research tasks – open
different results tasks that students have to
2. By task – more able negotiate their way through
students work on higher 9. By dialogue/ language – the
level tasks exchanges between student and
3. By resource – an open task teacher or student and student
that can be accessed at operate at a higher level
different levels, resources 10. By grouping – able students
determine the level together, or as leaders
4. By assessment mode/ level, 11. By choice – building in choice
eg assessing Year 9 against within tasks and choice about
GCSE criteria how students can approach them
5. By pace – able students 12. By self-direction – encourage
complete work faster greater independence by
6. By support – able students allowing the more able to
are more independent and propose ways to differentiate a
can provide support task
7. By extension – HOTS, not 13. By questioning – deeper, more
MOTS; depth or breadth open questions for the more able