Effective teaching is the hot topic at the moment, and with such fantastic discussions such as those at purpose/ed and the interesting (although controversial) Measures Of Effective Teaching project from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, there’s a lot to come.
I’ve been asked to develop my own tool to encourage some really good discussion and collaboration between colleagues, prompting a good hard look at the ways we teach, and what is going on in our classrooms. This is for a pilot project with a teacher training organisation.
So what do you think is a good set of data to prompt that discussion? I need your help! My initial thoughts are:
- How much students test scores have improved (from initial formative assessment to final summative test)
- Student levels/grades compared to target grades (based on prior attainment)
- Student enjoyment survey/ratings/opinions
- Teacher enjoyment survey/ratings/opinions (including assessments of behaviour etc)
- Small portfolio of linked work that class are particularly proud of
- Student self-assessment of how much independent learning went on – how would they rate their ability to improve in this topic without further assistance?
I don’t think this is exhaustive, and I certainly don’t think you’d measure all of these for every topic. However, a selection of these different approaches would prompt some very interesting discussion, and feed back nicely into upgrading schemes of work and resources for the next time it is taught.
What do you think?
