Improving Schools through Self-evaluation

1. WHY - Questions of purpose
   1. Why self-evaluation?
   2. Who is SSE for?
   
   
2. Improving student learning
   1. What students say about learning
   
   
3. Improving whole school (organisational) learning
   1. Analysing performance data
   2. Stakeholder surveys
   3. Student feedback
      1. Whole school level
      2. Classroom level
   4. Practical approaches
   
   
4. Improving professional learning
   1. Peer observation
      1. Anxiety over peer observation
      2. Subject specific and cross subject focus
      3. Clarity of focus
      4. Using video
   2. Collaborative lesson planning
      1. Benefits
      2. Practical issues of management
   
   
5. WHO Evaluates?
   1. The role of the principal
   2. The role of teachers
   3. The role of students
   4. The role of parents
   5. The role of the SIT
   
   

Preparing for External School Review

1. WHO - Roles and responsibilities in preparing for ESR
   1. The role of the principal
   2. The role of the SIT
   
   
2. Dispelling the myths
    
3. Workload issues
    
4. Dealing with documentation
    
5. Building confidence in preparing for ESR
    

Embedding and Sustaining School Self-evaluation

1. What is ESR for?
    
2. Reflecting on the ESR experience
   1. The oral feedback
   2. Responses to the written report
   
   
3. WHAT happens after ESR?
    
4. HOW - Approaches to embedding
   1. How SSE improves planning
   2. Keeping learning centre stage
   
   
5. Managing meetings