Geoff Barton

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Both, not EitherRaising Attainment in
English AND Maths

• Geoff Barton Julia Upton
• Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk
• (Presentation 82)

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Leadership issues

1. Using data to monitor and motivate
2. Using student leaders
3. Tackling the problem class / teacher

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Using Data
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Leadership issues

1. Using data to monitor and motivate
2. Using student leaders
3. Tackling the problem class / teacher

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Student Leaders Maths
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Sixth Form Maths Leaders

• Break down your explanation
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• Get them to explain what they are doing
• What operation
• Take things slowly
• What step did you lose them?
• PRAISE, PRAISE, PRAISE
• Different ways of explaining what to do
• Avoid tricks and short cuts
• Build up their proportional reasoning at all
  times

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Student Leaders English
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Leadership issues

1. Using data to monitor and motivate
2. Using student leaders
3. Tackling the problem class / teacher

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Issues in your school How have you dealt with
them?
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Leadership Dilemmas
1 You sense that teacher A is spending all the
classs time on poetry, and not preparing them
for English reading and writing skills. What do
you do? 2 An earnest, reliable student asks to
move to another Maths group because he feels
unchallenged and that the teacher doesnt know
his stuff. What do you do? 3 - Youve moved a
student to a different group because of his
behaviour. A parent of a good student in this
new group phones to question the rationale. What
do you do?
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Key Messages
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1. Start from 100
2. Remember its about the classroom
3. Inconsistency is an equal opportunities issue
4. Keep data simple
5. Think differently

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Both, not EitherRaising Attainment in
English AND Maths

• Geoff Barton Julia Upton
• Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk
• (Presentation 82)