A workshop for teachers to target improving teaching and learning in their class/es

1. Professional
Development Workshop
Analysing data to improve teaching and learning at
Northside School.
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2. Knowledge. Perspective
✤ Where are there general strengths and challenges in the students that
you teach?
✤ Strategy: In your year groups or specialist departments, discuss what
you know about trends that are presenting themselves in your year
groups/s / students this year. Specialist teachers need to discuss this
in broader terms.
✤ What questions develop from your discussions?
✤ Strategy: Write them down and discuss how you can collect data to
support your research in this area of teaching and learning.

3. Application. Function
✤ What is the most effective way to collect data to determine trends in
teaching and learning?
✤ Strategy: Design a data-collecting tool to collate information that
indicates trends in teaching and learning. using reports, workbooks,
portfolios and any other evidence

4. Comprehension: Causation
✤ What facts from the data indicate that an area of teaching and/or
learning is a strength or presents a challenge?
✤ Interpret the data you have collected and state in prioritised goals
what you (your team) will focus on in your teaching and learning for
2016 and beyond.

5. Analysis: Connection
✤ What connections can you make between your goals drawn from data
for teaching and learning and yourplanning and preparation
documents?
✤ Strategy: Use your planning documents to make connections between
where the data has guided your goal setting and how you can use
these goals to impact on this learning to address areas in the teaching
and learning in your class that need strengthening.

6. Synthesis: Change
✤ What changes (questions, knowledge, skills & strategies) will you
make to meet the goals you have set?
✤ Strategy: SMART goal research and goal design.

7. Evaluation: Reflection
✤ What results will you be satisfied with in teaching and learning at the
end of the year?
✤ Strategy: Keep a journal of the processes that have resulted from this
workshop. A digital teacher portfolio is also a way of collecting
evidence to support your achievement of goals.