Title: Inspirational Leadership of Teaching and Learning: Link: http://wp.me/p2HFBD-1Te The context of my presentation, was to share our school journey and elaborate on the fusion between blogging and social media. My particular pitch, looked at promoting the benefits and impact of online collaborations and how they can shift leadership and impact on whole-school teaching and learning methodology.

1. Inspirational Leadership
of
Teaching and Learning
by
Ross Morrison McGill
@TeacherToolkit

2. 1. Role; context; background
2. Our journey at Greig City Academy
3. Wider exposure via social media.

3. Context
• 1157 students
• 237 sixth form
• 0.55 social deprivation

4. Landscape:

5. Outcomes:

6. November 2011

7. Ofsted:
Teaching and learning was judged
64% good or outstanding.
(November 2011)

8. Ofsted-blues…
I arrived the
next day…

9. 1.
2.
Virtually no records of appraisal
No clear culture of T&L

11. December 2011

12. 1. Meet and greet
2. Support
3. Listen

14. 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Share the concept
Plan a series of focus weeks.
Map the teacher, the location, the skill to share.
Promote everywhere.
Provide staff with a sign for their classroom.
Longer term: re-visit with good to outstanding etc.

15. What‟s going to work?
Teamwork!

16. January - March 2012

17. Learning Walks

18. Learning
Walks
report

19. Book Reviews

20. April – June 2012

21. Learning Walks – part 2

22. Learning Walks cycle

23. Consistency!
1.
2.
3.
Marking
Literacy
G&T

24. Formal
lesson
plan

25. Informal lesson plan

26. Cover

29. T&L action plan

30. T&L action plan

31. September 2012

33. Observation cycle

39. Bombshell!

40. “Ofsted do not require
a lesson plan;
but evidence of
a planned lesson!”
Ofsted Handbook: September 2012 and then again in 2013

41. What do Ofsted say?
The School Inspections Handbook – Sep 2013
Page 10 – Bullet 24: Ofsted say:
• “Inspectors must not advocate a particular
method of teaching or show preference towards
a specific lesson structure.”

42. Page 11 – Bullet 27: Ofsted say from September
• “Inspectors will not expect teachers to prepare
lesson plans for the inspection. However, they
will use the evidence gathered from lesson
observations to help judge the overall quality of
the school‟s curriculum planning.“

43. Paired learning walks

44. 1. Observe and feedback
2. Observed and receive feedback

46. Revisited lesson planning…

47. Revisited lesson planning

48. „Stickability‟:
• What will stick in pupils‟ minds as they leave
your lesson?
• What do you want them to bring back to the next
lesson?

49. Credit: Stephen Tierney (@LeadingLearner)

50. AfL
Differentiation
Questioning

51. Pose Pause Pounce Bounce!
(PPPB)

52. Forming questions

53. Forming questions with Blooms

54. Visual seating plans - ASCL example

55. Reporting on standards

56. Blue Sky Education

59. Automated email updates

60. Reporting to governors

63. CPD

64. CPD across the school

65. IRIS Connect

67. Good to Outstanding

68. Good to Outstanding

69. Requires
Improvement

70. Requires
Improvement

71. Requires
Improvement

72. Requires Improvement Action Plan

74. Requires Improvement Database
2012/13

75. September 2013

79. Book monitoring – Progress over time

80. Questions we are asking

81. Questions we are solving

82. Progress over time…

83. “There is no progress within lessons.
There is only learning.”
“The Ofsted framework talks about ‘gains in their
knowledge, skills and understanding’ in lessons.
They are things that inspectors will be looking to
see from the students.
Where progress is mentioned, it is not something
that inspectors will be looking to see from the
students, because it is about the effectiveness of
monitoring that they will be looking to see from the
teachers.”
Keven Bartle @KevBartle

84. What‟s going to work?
Teamwork!

85. Thank you…
Ross Morrison McGill
@TeacherToolkit
www.TeacherToolkit.me
More on Twitter/Blogging if needed >>

87. www.teachertoolkit.me

88. Worldwide readership!

89. @SLTchat
• 8000 followers
• 20 hosts
• Trending

90. @SLTchat by DfE

91. Thank you…
Ross Morrison McGill
@TeacherToolkit
www.TeacherToolkit.me