Early Years Network
An opportunity to engage in a School to School Support Project between Havering, Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge Schools
Title: “Sustaining effective teaching, learning and leadership in the EYFS”
Leads: Dan Lea and Joanne Stanley
Content:
School to School, Research Informed Peer Review:
- The schools participating in this network design their shared focus
- Conduct literature reviews to establish understanding of what best practice looks like
- Commit to engaging in one piece of practice/teaching/learning/ leadership change to enhance their provision
- Share continuous evaluation of change with other schools in the network: learning walks, pupil conferences, practice review, data analysis …
- Engage in CPD to further develop knowledge, skills and understanding related to agreed focus
- Write up experiences as a piece of recorded learning which can be shared with all schools
- Network consists of schools from Havering, Barking and Dagenham and Redbridge
Outcomes:
- Improvement to children’s outcomes
- Improvement on teacher performance
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Session One: Wednesday 4th December 2019 at Broadford Primary school (Havering) from 2pm – 4pm “The End in mind”: Identification of our children’s needs and evaluation of the impact this programme should have on our children’s learning, achievement and well-being.
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Session Two: “Something different”: A review of best early years pedagogies, comparing them to our current practices, critiquing how such pedagogical approaches may support the needs identified in session one, creating a new theory of practice for our own settings.
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Session Three: Why Action research? Why Lesson Study? : The designing of small scale action research projects which focus on enhancing the learning and progress made by our children as a specific result of employing new pedagogic techniques.
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Session Four: So what did our mini projects tell us? An identification of successes, discussion of challenges and questioning of why one strategy may have seemed more effective than another. The “co-construct” of deeper understandings around ways of developing our practices. Leading to a second mini action research project.
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Session Five: Joint Practice Development: Review second project. The whole group will identify one area of new pedagogical approach or professional development/learning that they would wish to explore on a deeper level as a piece of “Joint Practice” development.
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Session Six: Leading on change: This session focuses on how effective professional development requires effective leadership to create the necessary conditions.
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Session Seven: A return to the concept of: “The end in mind”: A sharing of the professional learning experienced so far and its impacts on improved pupil learning, achievement and well-being. Review progress with research.
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Session Eight: Write Up: The collaborative writing up of our research’s impacts.
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Session Nine: Celebration and dissemination: The sharing of our professional learning with colleagues from all participating schools.
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