What is it?
To sustain any form of improvement within a school, strategic monitoring is vital. This involves more than just observing lessons and providing individual feedback. It’s about looking holistically across the whole school and observing from a strategic perspective, linked to the vision you have for the school.
Beyond Monitoring is a programme designed by two outstanding heads and led by Third Wave Enterprises. It is a short course that will empower heads and senior leaders with the means to deliver better teaching and learning through effective strategic monitoring.
Who it is for?
This programme is for head teachers, deputies and senior leaders with a responsibility for driving and sustaining improvement within their school.
What will it do?
On completion of Beyond Monitoring, participants will have the knowledge, tools and techniques to implement an effective system for improving teaching, raising standards and accelerating pupil progress. Having undergone a fundamental shift in thinking, school leaders will move away from individual monitoring responses to a more encompassing view of school strategy and classroom improvement.
It will deliver:
- better results
- improvement in quality of teaching
- improved leadership and management grades and enhanced leadership of teaching and learning
- heads and senior staff who are more confident in how to improve teaching, generate higher standards of work and drive pupil advancement.
Ultimately, heads will be able to develop a bespoke system for improving teaching and learning for their school’s individual circumstances and needs.
What does it involve?
The programme is set in an outstanding school and consists of three separate days of learning, observations, shared practical tasks and feedback. Participants will look at key features of an outstanding lesson and associated tools and techniques, for instance planning templates, higher order questioning skills, timetabling and book sampling. Underpinning this is the core focus on how to develop robust and strategic monitoring systems that can be applied consistently across all lessons.
Day One is about Improving Teaching. It includes:
- Coming to a judgement on the quality of teaching What makes a good lesson?
- What evidence contributes to making a secure judgement?
- Giving strategic feedback Protocols Joint observations of teaching in the outstanding school Using observations to improve teaching.
Day Two is about Improving Learning. It includes:
- Auditing the use of time in the curriculum
- Pupil progress meetings
- Data Learning from work - a practical task using the outstanding school’s books
- Raising the quality of outcomes.
Day Three is about Developing Systems. It includes:
- Refining systems for improving teaching and learning
- Building your system
- The multiplier effect.
How do we know it works?
We have already helped a number of heads and senior leaders to think strategically about monitoring and improvement within their schools.Take a look at the quotes on the right for examples of how people have benefitted from this programme.
Locations
Please contact Laura Murdoch for programme locations.
