Examples of approaches to Quality Improvement

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Examples of approaches to Quality Improvement

• Ricardas Aliauskas
• St. Petersburg, 2006-10-06

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What we have tried already?

• Sharing of good practice
• Awards for schools passed criteria
• Investing in people (teachers training)
• Inclusive projects
• Self-evaluation
• External evaluation
• Education management information system
• Students achievements studies
• Policy analysis
• Collaboration in networks
• Incentives for leadership

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Models for Teachers Training

• Seminars for consultants from all municipalities
• Centrally managed consultants
• Waves of consultants

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Waves of consultants
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Schools Self-evaluation
1. Preparation (learning planning)

• 3. Taking a closer look at 7 key areas per 3
  years
• identifying appropriate evidences (illustration)
• selecting data sources methodology of
  collection
• creating instruments collection of data
• data analysis summary of findings

• 2. Taking a broad view (indicators of all 7 key
  areas)
• Strengths Weaknesses based on intuition

4. Presentation of audit findings
5. Planning of school improvement
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Most valuable elements of self-evaluation

• System of indicators, which explains, how does
  school work, gives a common vocabulary, mental
  model, system thinking
• Data, which gives an information about school
• Instruments of measurements
• Illustrations, which create space for specificity
  and creativity, sharing of vision
• Teachers discussions, team work and learning

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To help to this school to improve education of
these children
External audit

• 65-75 of auditing time in classrooms
• 3 -2 rule after classroom observation
• 10-5 rule of external evaluation report
• Support for improvement
• Dissemination of good practice

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Calendar of External Audit Visit
First message to the school about visit - 70
days before Visit of chief auditor to the school
- 20 days before Main visit to the
school the size of team of auditors

and duration of audit
depends on school
size Preparation of primary report
in 21 day Comments of school to
the report in 10 days
Final report
in 42 days
after
leaving the school School Improvement Plan
in 30 days

after final report
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Incentives for Leadership
Virtual environment and information
systems Regulation Publications
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Examples of approaches to Quality Improvement
Thank you!

• Ricardas Aliauskas
• St. Petersburg, 2006-10-06