Category Archives: Self Evaluation

GIRFEC, Self Evaluation

GIRFEC self-evaluation guide now online

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This guide has been developed for leaders and staff teams in pre-5 establishments and schools to support self-evaluation. It looks specifically at developing the ‘Getting it right for every child’ (GIRFEC) approach within an education setting, but fits within the overall self-evaluation framework familiar to education professionals.

An interactive resource, based on the GIRFEC Wellbeing Wheel, the self-evaluation guide can help practitioners reflect on, and plan for, how they can make a positive difference for children and young people.

The guide can be used with a wide range of audiences:

  • all staff or groups of staff
  • whole establishment or teams
  • cluster/learning community level.

The materials and process can be adapted to use with:

  • children and young people
  • parents/carers
  • partner agencies.

Click here for further information and to download the guide:

A guide to evaluating wellbeing in schools and nurseries

See also other GIRFEC resources.

CfE, Education News, Self Evaluation

Curriculum for Excellence National Expectations: Self-evaluation resource – QIs 5.1 and 5.9

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http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/c/genericresource_tcm4813830.asp?dm_t=0,0,0,0,0

Education Scotland has published a new resource – Curriculum for Excellence National Expectations: Self-evaluation resource – QIs 5.1 and 5.9 – which supplements the advice given in the Inspection Advice Note 2013-14 and sets out updated expectations in relation to Quality Indicator (QI) 5.1 The curriculum and QI 5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation.
This resource is the first in a series of support for practitioners in evaluating the impact of curriculum change and improvement through self-evaluation. It includes updated illustrations of ‘very good’ for QI 5.1 The curriculum and QI 5.9 Improvement through self-evaluation together with a set of questions that can be used to help evaluate the quality of the broad general education, the senior phase and curriculum transitions as well as the quality of improvement through self-evaluation.

Research, Self Evaluation

OECD International Review of Evaluation and Assessment in Education

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You might be interested to read the executive summary of the OECD report Synergies for Better Learning which provides a comparative analysis on how evaluation and assessment can be embedded to improve the quality and efficiency of school education.

As well as analysing strengths and weaknesses of different approaches from 28 countries, the report provides recommendations for improvement including how results should be incorporated into policy and practice.

The report looks at why there is a growing focus on evaluation and assessment internationally; what the main challenges and trends are and how policy can be implemented successfully.

Download the report here: Synergies for Better Learning

Self Evaluation

Mentoring Matters

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Mentoring Matters is an online resource designed to support educators in self-evaluating the quality of their mentoring practice and to reflect on its impact on learning and teaching.

he resource has been developed with the underpinning principle that mentoring is at the heart of effective professional review and learning, and involves everyone who has a responsibility for improving outcomes for children and young people.

It includes key features for self-evaluation of mentoring and examples of mentoring conversations.  There are links to helpful research materials and reflective questions to support professional dialogue.

CPD, Self Evaluation, Teachers

OECD webinar: Using Evaluation to Improve Teaching, 13 March

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2013 International Summit on the Teaching Profession
Using evaluation to improve teaching
OECD Education and Skills webinar series with Andreas Schleicher – OECD Deputy Director for Education and Skills and Kristen Weatherby – Senior Analyst, OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)

Wednesday, March 13th 2013 at the following times
11:00 am Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00)
1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

What: The third International Summit on the Teaching Profession will bring together education ministers, union leaders and other teacher leaders from high-performing and rapidly improving education systems, as measured by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), to discuss how teacher quality is defined and what standards are set and by whom; what systems are in place for teacher evaluation and how evaluations are conducted; and how teacher evaluation contributes to school improvement and teacher self-efficacy.
In some countries the concept – not to mention the use – of teacher appraisal sparks discussion just about wherever and whenever it is mentioned. According to what criteria? Who decides? And what should the results of teacher appraisals be used for?  The webinars will present the report Teachers for the 21st Century: Using Evaluation to Improve Teaching  which underpins the 2013 Summit with available research about effective approaches to teacher appraisal and examples of reforms that have produced specific results, show promise or illustrate imaginative ways of implementing change.  By looking at how appraisal results are used it shows how teacher appraisal can be a key lever for increasing the focus on teaching quality and continuous professional development for teachers, in keeping with the growing recognition that the quality of teaching affects student learning outcomes.
Who: Andreas Schleicher, OECD Deputy Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General of the OECD and Kristen Weatherby – Senior Analyst, OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)

When: Wednesday, March 13th 2013: 2 webinars will be held at the following times:
11:00 am Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00)
1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

Where: The convenience of your own computer. For registration see instructions below.
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To register for the online briefing
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1. Go to https://oecdwash.webex.com/oecdwash/onstage/g.php?p=0&t=m
2. Select the event and click “Register”.
3. On the registration form, enter your information and then click “Submit”.

Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email message with instructions on how to join the event.
For assistance please send a message to Matthias.Rumpf@oecd.org

CPD, Events, Learning Exchange, NCLN, Self Evaluation

NCLN Meeting – 4,5 December, Aberdeen

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CLN Coordinators from across Scotland will gather together in early December for a national network meeting in Aberdeen.

Serious Play – 4th December

The ‘Serious Play’ event provides an opportunity to explore the interface between creativity, play and learning with  professionals from Education, Early Years, Family and Community Learning, Arts and Culture and Outdoor Learning.

Keynote speaker Chiqui Gonzalez, Minister of Innovation and Culture, Santa Fe, Argentina will give a keynote presentation on her work, championing shared family learning through cultural activity.

The conference will enable participants to share theory and practice and to engage with a range of seminars and participatory activities.

During the day, NCLN members will meet with Joan Parr and Petrea Cooney from Creative Scotland for an update and conversation on the new Creative Learning Plan which is currently in development and will supersede the Education and the Arts, Culture and Creativity: An Action Plan.

Creativity and Self-Evaluation – 5th December

Ros Sutherland from City of Edinburgh Council will lead a session on self-evaluation and how we can use it to continually reflect on and improve our practice. Through conversation and practical activities the group will explore and discuss:

·      Is self-evaluation a bureaucratic process or can it be creative?

·      How can we keep things simple when self-evaluation frameworks seem so complicated?

·      What are we evaluating?

·      What forms can evidence take and how should it be presented to senior managers, funders, and target audiences?

·      Can the NCLN lead the way, demonstrating that self-evaluation and creativity do go together?

National Creative Learning Network

The NCLN is a community of practice which has a leadership role in championing and advocating creativity in both formal and informal learning contexts; it consists of the group of coordinators leading the CLN for each local authority.

Education News, Self Evaluation

Education Scotland publishes a new quality improvement framework for culture and sport provision

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Working in partnership with VOCAL (the association for culture and leisure managers in Scotland) and the Scottish Government, Education Scotland has now published a final version of How good is our culture and sport? A quality improvement framework for culture and sport provision.

The aim of this publication is to support continuous improvement among the range of organisations that provide services and activities for culture and sport in local areas.

While the principal target and user of the framework is the local authority, it is recommended that local authorities work with others, for example service-providing organisations, including those involved as community planning partners on self-evaluation using the framework.  By using it, all of these organisations will be able evaluate their strengths and areas for improvement in providing culture and sport and also the impact of that provision on their communities.

The guidance is centred on using self-evaluation as a key driver for continuous improvement.  It defines what self-evaluation for improvement is about, and notes that ‘evidence shows there is a strong link between robust self-evaluation, led by effective leadership and management, and the development of the capacity for further improvement’.

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/educationnews/2012/pressreleases/october/howgoodisourcultureandsport.asp

CLN News, Local Authorities, Scottish Borders, Self Evaluation

Creative Teviot & Liddesdale

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As part of the Scottish Borders 2011-12 CLN fund we held a ‘Creativity’ day with Cultural Ambassadors, partners and pupils in the Teviot and Liddesdale Learning Community (Hawick area).

The event included three main themes

  • An evaluation of creative projects in the previous year
  • The role of the CLN, Cultural Ambassadors and partners
  • Future plans for championing creative learning across the learning community

The discussions from the day were captured in the following animation

http://vimeo.com/39619613

During the morning Simone Russell gave an animation workshop to S2 pupils from Hawick High School. Simone and the pupils then worked with the rest of the group to animate their conversations.

Jane Gaze (Historic Scotland), Judith Murray (Cultural Ambassador, Hawick High School) and S2 pupils