Creating the ethos for success

1. Welcome to Our
TEAM BUILDING MEETING

2. AGENDA
• Call to Order
• Devotion
• TEAM Building – We are all in this thing together, We gonna work it out!
• Sharing Excellence
• Understanding the Impact of School Ethos
• Using the NEI reports to Prepare for Greatness
• Analysing Essential Elements/Factors
• Sustaining a culture of sharing
• Organizing Teaching & Learning
• Building Partnerships
• Addressing Emotional Intelligence
• Holistic Approach to Developing our Students- Extra Curricular Activities – Uniformed
Groups
• Resources
• MOVING FORWARD
• Building & Enhancing Our Relationship
• Enhancing Communication
• Professional Development
• Termination

3. TEAM
Together Everyone Achieves More
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4. MINISTRY OF
EDUCATION
Every Child Can Learn, Every Child Must

5. An effective
accountable
and efficient
education
system
Equitable
Access
Accountability
Framework
Universal
Literacy
Secure and
Safe
Environment
Build
Partnership
Robust and
Rich
Environment
Enable Learners
to Acquire
Knowledge and
Skills
Qualified,
Certified and
Licensed
Teachers
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6. REGION 4 PARISHES
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8. Company
LOGO
REGION 4 ACHIEVEMENTS

9. PREPARING FOR
GREATNESS
TEAM REGION 4

10. Ministry of Education
Strategic Objectives
1. Provide equitable access and/or attachment to a high quality education system for all
3-18.
2. Improve the standards and quality of Jamaica’s education system by robust
accountability framework accountability framework for all stakeholders.
3. Improve learners’ performance across the formal education system and the wider
society to achieve universal literacy at least 85% numeracy.
4. Provide a safe and secure physical environment which is conducive to learning foe all
learners public educational institutions.

11. Ministry of Education
Strategic Objectives
5. Build partnership with donors, private sector partners, the community, parents,
employers, and those committed to creating a strong education system to build the
nation
6. Provide a resource-rich environment supportive of all levels in public educational
institutions by 2020.
7. Enable all learners in education system to acquire high quality academic knowledge
and marketable skills through integrated curriculum offerings.
8. Attract and retain well-qualified, certified and licensed teachers to fill the
requirements of all educational institutions at all levels of system

12. National Education Inspectorate (NEI)
Roles and Responsibilities
 The National Education Inspectorate (NEI) is responsible for making an assessment of the
standards attained by the students in our primary and secondary schools at key points
during their education.
 It is the aim of the NEI to report on how well students perform or improve, as they
progress through their schooling and learning life.
 The NEI is also charged with the responsibility to make recommendations to support
improvement in the quality of the provision and outcomes for all learners.

13. National Education Inspectorate (NEI)
Key Indicators
 Eight key questions that inspectors ask about the educational provision and performance
of every school. These are:
1. How effectively is the school led and managed by the Board, the principal and
senior management team and middle leadership?
2. How effectively does the teaching support the students´ learning?
3. How well do students perform in national and/or regional tests and assessments?
(For infants: in relation to age-related expectations)
4. How much progress do students make in relation to their starting points?

14. National Education Inspectorate (NEI)
Key Indicators
 Eight key questions that inspectors ask about the educational provision and performance
of every school. These are:
5. How good is the students´ personal and social development?
6. How effectively does the school use the human and material resources at its
disposal to help the students achieve as well as they can?
7. How well do the curriculum and any enhancement programmes meet the needs of
the students?
8. How well does the school ensure everyone’s security, health, safety and wellbeing?

15. Creating a
SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL
Prepared & Presented Michele Pinnock

16. Professional Leadership
Leaders, who tend to be proactive, participate and share
leadership, and have real knowledge of what goes on in
the classroom.

17. Shared Vision and Goals
Effective schools build consensus on the aims and
values of the school, and develop a sense of community.
This provides a
• unity of purpose,
• consistency of practice,
• ownership through Collegiality and collaboration.

18. A learning Environment
• The shared vision and values determine the ethos of
the school. Effective schools have an orderly
environment and an attractive working environment,
including the display of children's work.

19. Concentration on Teaching and Learning
• Effectiveness is clearly dependent on effective classroom teaching.
• It is vital that schools focus on quality as well as the quantity of teaching and
learning.
• Such schools make
a. maximum use of learning time,
b. place an emphasis on mastery of basic skills and
c. embed an ethos around achievement – Celebrating Achievement

20. Purposeful Teaching
Quality teaching is at the heart of effective schooling.
• efficient organisation with teachers clear about their objectives.
• Students are aware of the purposes.
• Structured lessons with teachers making use of a range of explicit teaching strategies.
• Teacher who use adaptive practice to modify and adapt curriculum material to suit student individual
differences.

21. High Expectations
• Positive high expectations are one of the most important factors.
• Teachers set high standards to challenges and monitor
progress.
• High expectations also apply to teachers.
• Teachers convey and reinforce high expectations.
• Students are encouraged t use their creative imagination and
powers of problem solving.

22. Positive Reinforcement
• This was the most important element of all.
• This occurs where there is clear and fair discipline where
students feel they belong and are able to participate.
• Direct and positive feedback has a positive effect with
student behaviour and praise needs to be specific,
spontaneous and varied.

23. Monitoring Progress
• Well-established mechanisms for monitoring the progress of pupils,
classes, the school as a whole, and improvement programmes are
important features.
• Monitoring by itself has little effect but is an important ingredient in
an effective school to determine school wide progress.
• Some schools misdirect teaching through too frequent monitoring
procedures.
• The key is appropriate monitoring with feedback. Evaluating school
progress is particularly important.

24. Pupils Rights and Responsibilities
• Research indicates that there are considerable gains
to be made when pupil self esteem is raised and
when they have an active role and have
responsibility for their own learning.

25. Home School Partnership
• Supportive relations and cooperation between home
and school have positive effects.
• Effective schools not only involve parents but also
make demands on them.
• The relationship between the individual teacher and
the parent(s) is critical.

26. A Learning Organisation
• Effective schools are learning organisations where all
aspects of the school are interrelated.
• To be effective development needs to be school based
and tailored to the specific needs of the school.
• There is value in embedding staff development within a
•collegial and collaborative planning and ensuring
ideas are shared

27. As we embark on this new academic journey Remember
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that
causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path
and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
~Author Unknown
 Consider the postage stamp: its
usefulness consists in the ability to stick to
one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings

28. Let’s commit ourselves to our Mission
Let’s vow to sticking to each small task
Ensure the TEAMremains Motivated
Together Everyone Achieves More,

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30. You must be the change you wish to see in the
world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let’s Commit Today
I Thank You

31. I Thank You