This is an observation record from Southfield School in Kettering, England – a lesson learning review. The school is ranked as one of England’s five percent best schools. They work extremely consciously both on the breadth and in depth with feedback to teachers to develop the teaching and learning.
BRAVOLesson blog March 14th
All pupils and students deserve fantastic teaching
and all teachers deserve constructive feedback!
That is the core of school improvement.
A systematic approach to improve teaching. Our ten part series continues – this is part 3.
Our survey, carried out in Sweden, included questions to primary, secondary and upper secondary school teachers. The survey showed that teaching is a lonely profession, with teachers receiving little support or guidance. Only every tenth teacher gets feedback on their teaching from a school leader, a colleague or a coach. OECD Statistics indicate that only every fourth teacher gets perspective on their own and their colleagues teaching. ***
This means:
This leads to questions like: How do they think and what do they do?
We wanted to get answers to the these questions and we subsequently organised a conference, ”Öppna klassrumsdörrarna” (”Open the classroom doors”), in Stockholm in April 2018. Researchers, experts, experienced school leaders and teachers met to share their experiences. When we reviewed the experiences together with other things that research has shown to be important dimensions of good teaching, we could conclude the following:
Their are four + two key challenges for successful implementation of systematic approach:
Our white paper helps you to tackle these four + two key challenges.
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*** Sources:
– Successful Schools Swedens/BRAVOLessons survey via Novus. Konstruktiv feedback kring undervisning. 2016
– How to make a good teacher. The Economist (June 11th – 17th): 13, 21-24. 2016.
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We hope you will follow our series! It will continue until the summer of 2019 with one new part every two weeks.
Greetings from the BRAVOLesson Team
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BRAVOLesson blog Feb 25th.
All pupils and students deserve fantastic teaching
and all teachers deserve constructive feedback!
That is the core of school improvement.
A systematic approach to improve teaching. Our ten part series continues – this is part 2.
How to make a good teacher? – the headline of the editorial article in the 2016 June issue of the magazine The Economist. The question is a summary of a global challenge where many nations invest more and more in public education. The article describes profession that is starting to transform in many countries – to be a teacher is an art and a beautiful craft but is now also a profession that is about systematics based on research and best practice with focus on continuous improvement.
The question is important since high performing teachers generate one and a half year of learning per academic year. The ten percent low performing teachers only generate half a year of learning per academic year. It does not have to be like that. 1)
“The ten percent low performing teachers only generate half a year of learning per academic year.”
According to the article few other professionals are so isolated in their work, or get so little feedback, as Western teachers. In other words, other parts of society have much more focus on the quality of “production” than the school.
“Few other professionals are so isolated in their work, or get so little feedback, as Western teachers.”
There is every reason to read the texts in The Economist regardless of whether you are a teacher, principal, head of school, politician, parent or student. In the articles – because they are two – everyone will find perspectives for raising both the school debate, school development and teaching.
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1) Hanushek, Eric. The economic value of higher teacher quality. Economics of Education Review 30 (2011): 467
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We hope you will follow our series! It will continue until the summer of 2019 with one new part every two weeks.
Greetings from the BRAVOLesson Team
PS. Do you want to read the articles from The Economist? Here you will find the editorial article and here you find the main article.
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BRAVOLesson blog Feb 4th
All pupils and students deserve fantastic teaching
and all teachers deserve constructive feedback!
That is the core of school improvement.
Welcome to our ten parts series!
Not just improvements – continuous improvements. This series is about our whitepaper: A guide on how to implement a systematic approach to improve teaching. The perspective is not about leadership controlling teachers, but instead about working together with teachers to improve teaching. The teachers are both appreciated and valued, but also challenged about learning and improving student outcomes. This is also about increasing job satisfaction. It all goes together.
It is important to start with a vision. Why should we do this at all? When discussing a vision it is important and helpful to discuss the following questions – to engage everyone in the organisation:
We hope you will follow our series! It will continue until the summer of 2019 with one new part every two weeks. Below you can see the topics of next parts.
WELCOME!
Greetings from the BRAVOLesson Team
Upcoming parts in our series about
a systematic approach to improve teaching
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During BETT in London on January 23-26, we are happy to show BRAVOLesson and the following news and smart features.
Welcome to booth F60 which we share with our English partner Derventio Education.
NEW! BRAVOLesson Analytics – statistics module for municipalities and organisations
The analytics module that is standard inside BRAVOLesson is now available for municipalities and organizations with several school units. This means that you can generate statistics on how teaching is developing for a school, for several schools or for all schools.
NEW! BRAVOLesson App – for iOS and Android
In January, we release the BRAVOLesson App which can be downloaded for FREE from AppStore and Google Play.
With the app one can, among other things, easily upload filmed video sequences or images directly to your own Video and Media archive in BRAVOLesson.
NEW! Save lesson planning related to lesson observation
We have made improvements to what was previously called My Video Archive and renamed it My Video and Media Archive. Now one can easily connect the teacher’s lesson plan to the saved lesson observation.
NEW! Notifications via email
For those schools and municipalities that have school licenses and accounts for all teachers, one can now choose to turn on notifications via email. Then the teacher / user gets a message and a link to BRAVOLesson when a lesson observation or video observation about them has become:
– planned
– saved
– changed
SMART FEATURE! Compare your views of what quality in teaching is
We also want to point to a smart feature to improve teaching together. If two teachers visit a colleague’s lesson, they in BRAVOLesson can set up an observation form each and after the lesson compare how their experience from the lesson.
See you at BETT!
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