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      string(5605) "of externalsupport now (tickonly 3)%C. 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A further 9 per cent were planning tosubmit an application to become a teaching school. A further 10 per cent were already participating formallyin a TSA, with about one-fifth (18 per cent) planning to do so in the future. However, despite the importanceof TSAs within the current policy framework, 70 per cent of headteachers had no current plans to participateformally in a TSA and 61 per cent had no plans to work informally with a teaching school in their area. Wenote that the National College’s annual survey, undertaken at about the same time, reported that 27 percent of heads found the model of teaching schools appealing, with secondary schools (54 per cent) andacademies (52 per cent) most likely to consider working as a part of a TSA in the next 12 months. However,only a third of primary (35 per cent) and special (36 per cent) schools had such plans.On local authority services, 41 per cent of headteachers had stopped or intended to stop using servicesprovided by their local authority. A majority of respondents (69 per cent), however, also reported that theywere already or planned to collaborate with other schools to fund aspects of the local authority improvementservice to ensure specific services were sustained. This suggests that while a significant minority of schoolsmay soon stop using a range of local authority services and diversify their support, many schools may also(simultaneously) recognise that their local authority provides (a number of) effective and beneficial services.Interview and case study participants also described a range of examples of the demise of local authoritysupport services, in keeping with the broader, changing role of the local authority described in chapter 4.Where local authorities were effectively redesigning (or rebranding) coherent packages of support, however,schools and especially primary schools readily bought into these. In a number of contexts, engagement (ordisengagement) with the local authority appeared to be driven more by the local authority’s capacity tocontinue to deliver services and support rather than schools making a concerted decision to disengage –particularly where relations were historically strong.Table 7.2: Current whole-school support services (headteachers)Has your school, or is your school,planning to:Alreadyhappening%Planning to%Neither%No response%become a teaching school? 2 9 86 2participate in a teaching school alliance? 10 18 70 2work with a teaching school in your area? 15 22 61 2contract support or advice from anotherstate school? 18 13 66 2contract support or advice from acommercial organisation? 19 15 64 3stop using services provided by the localauthority? 25 16 58 2collaborate with other schools tofund aspects of the local authorityimprovement service to ensure thoseaspects are sustained?40 29 30 2N = 833Note: From a series of single-response itemsThe percentages in this table are weighted by school type and student FSM eligibility.Due to rounding, percentages may not sum to 100.Source: NFER and IOE leadership survey for the National College, 201299 © National College for School LeadershipThe current importance of the local authority was also reported by middle/senior leaders. The middle/seniorleader survey presented respondents with an open-ended question asking them which three most importantsources of support and advice they expected to use over the next 18 months (rather than the list of sourcespresented to headteachers in Table 7.1). As demonstrated in Table 7.3, the most frequently cited source wasthe headteacher/deputy head of the school (one-third of middle/senior leaders stated this). The other mainsources of support and advice mentioned by middle/senior leaders were the local authority (29 per cent),school/cluster network (20 per cent) and the National College (16 per cent).Table 7.3: Sources of support and advice (middle/senior leaders)Most important sources of support and advice %Headteacher/deputy head of this school 33The local authority 29School cluster/network 20National College for School Leadership 16Peers/colleagues in other schools"
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      string(5644) "processes enables mediators to connect to thereal worlds of students. The mediator should have empathyfor the uncertainty processes that the learners go through.In many knowledge exchange processes, both theteacher and the students stand on firm ground. There is noneed to change, and the goals of teaching are very clear. Butteaching for understanding requires the students to go outof their egocentric points of view and to experience change.The same challenging assignments enable students toexperience meaningful learning and uncertainty processes,resisting the change processes and being attracted to it.Teaching for understanding requires being brave, becauseone has to take risks in order to enable students to get out oftheir comfort zone and to experience change processes. 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Email Schurfa@netvision.net.ilReferences: Carey, S. (2009). The Origin of Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press ■ Driver, R. and Easely, J. (1978). Pupils and paradigms: areview of literature related to concept development in adolescent science students, Studies in Science Education, (5) , 61 -84. ■ Driver, R.,Guesne, E. & Tiberghien, A. (1985). Some features of children’s ideas and their implications for teaching. In R. Driver, E. Guesne & A. Tiberghien,(Eds.), Children’s Ideas in Science. NJ: Open University Press, Milton Keynes ■ Driver, R., Squires, A., Rushworth, P. & Wood-Robinson, V. (1994).Making Sense of Secondary Science: Research into Children’s Ideas. New York: Routledge ■ Feuerstein, R., Feuerstein, R.S., Falik, L. & Rand,Y. (2006). The Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Program. ICELP Publications. Jerusalem ■ Feuerstein, R., Feuerstein, Ra. & Schur, Y. (1997).Process as Content – in regular education and in particular in education of the low functioning retarded performer. In A.L. Costa & R.M.Liebmann (Eds.), If process were content: sustaining the spirit of learning. Ca: Corwin Press. ■ Feuerstein, R., Rand, Y., Hoffman, M., Egozi, M., &Ben-Shachar-Segev, N. (1991). ‘Intervention programs for retarded performers: goals, means and expected outcomes.’ In L. Idol & B. Jones (eds.),Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction: Implication for Reform. Erlbaum, Hillsboro, NJ, Vol. 2, pp. 139-178. ■ Galili, I., Schur, Y., Weizman,A., Stein, H., Eckstien, O., Nezer-Tarcic, Moria. (2012). Science Education in Israel: Perspective on the Situation and Problems of Innovation.TRACES final report. ■ Marton, F. & Tsui, A.B.M. (2004). Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. ■Nussbaum, J. (1985). The Earth as a cosmic body. In Driver, R. Guesne, E. & Tiberghien, A. 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Professional Development

Thinking journeys in the classroom – the power of uncertainty and mediation

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      string(5582) "schools that are dynamic and wonderful places to be, places of belonging where young people are encouraged to think and question and challenge. The fight back against bigotry – now a vital imperative across the Globe – is about enabling young people to read not only the ‘word’ but also the ‘world’, as Paulo Friere described it (Friere,1993).  This is what will help keep our children safe. And this is what will enable our young people to recreate a world of possibilities in which truth and social justice, care of our planet and for the well-being of others will prevail. Leaders can shine a light on the road ahead. Kathryn Riley is Professor of Urban Education, UCL, Institute of Education and, with DancePoet TioMlina, co-founder of the Art of Possibilities.Further contact informationEmail: kathryn.riley@ucl.ac.ukWeb: www.theartofpossibilities.org.uk Information: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about/ioe-life/academics/kathryn-rileyRead Kathryn’s blog on place and belonging: https://ioelondonblog.wordpress.comAcknowledgmentsThis article draws on presentations made to the International Conference for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) Ottowa, January 2017 and a key note address in Kingston Jamaica, February 2017 at a Conference organised by the National College for Educational Leadership.The research and development project School – A Place where I belong? involved a UCL, IoE Research team (Dr Dina Mehmedbegovic, Dr Max Coates and Rhoda Furniss) and thirteen London schools: five involved in the core research (Corelli College, Elizabeth Garret Anderson School, Mulberry School, St Paul’s Way Trust School and Upton Cross Primary School) and eight in the Newly Qualified Teachers’ Network, led by Newport School.Download the Videos in the Art of Possibilities Series  (2016)Video 1: Place, Belonging  and Schools in our Global World https://youtu.be/wjzdwlHSBRAVideo 2: A Place to Be: Student-Researchers Show the Way https://youtu.be/pSPXX_ReRUQVideo 3: Rethinking Classrooms Teacher-Researchers Learn from their Students https://youtu.be/_HHLTKYF6tUVideo 4: Using Poetry Performance to Create Place and  Belonging https://youtu.be/pMj1-yEcdOcVideo 5: Making Belonging Work  in a Volatile World  https://youtu.be/wUVOUk83hngNOTES1. Riley & Rustique-Forrester 2002; Riley, 2013a & b; Riley et al, 2016; Riley 2017a  & b.2. These findings reinforce the work of many other writers on student voice and research engagement, such as Mary Kellet (2010), Jean Ruddock (2007) and Michael Fielding (2004).3. Findings which support the work of Timperley and Earl (2011) who have developed a helpful framework on collaborative inquiry.ReferencesBryk, A. and Schneider, B. (2002) Trust in schools: a core resource for improvement, New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ■ Fielding, M. (2004) ‘New wave’ student voice and the renewal of civic society’, London Review of Education, 2 (3):197-217. ■ Friere, P. (1993) Pedagogy of the City, New York: Continuum. ■ Giddens, A. (1984) The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, California: University of California Press. ■ Goffee, R and Jones, G. (2006) Why should anyone be led by you?  What it takes to be an authentic leader, Boston: Harvard Business School Press. ■ John, G. (2016) See Video 1 in the Art of Possibilities Series: Place, Belonging and Schools in our Global World https://youtu.be/wjzdwlHSBRA ■ Kellet, M. (2010) Rethinking Children and Research: Attitudes in Contemporary Society, London: Bloomsbury. ■ Louis, K. S. (2007) ‘Trust and improvement in schools’, Journal of Educational Change, 8 (1), 1–25. ■ O’Donoghue, J. (1998) Eternal Echoes, Exploring our Hunger to Belong, London: Bantam Books. ■ Putnam, R.D. (2015) Our Kids, The American Dream in Crisis, New York: Simon & Schuster. ■ Riley, K. (2013) Leadership of Place: Stories for schools in the US, UK and South Africa, London: Bloomsbury. ■ Riley, K. (2017a) ‘Community collaboration and partnership in volatile times’, in  P. Earley and T. Greany (eds), School Leadership and Education System Reform,  Chapter 13, London: Bloomsbury. ■ Riley, K.  (2017b) Place, Belonging and Leadership: Researching to make the difference, London: Bloomsbury. ■ Riley, K.,  Montecinos, C. and Ahumada, L.  (2016) ‘Effective Principals Serving in High Poverty Schools in Chile: Managing Competing Realities’, pp 1-8 , Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.181 ■ Riley, K. A. and Rustiqure Forrester, E. (2002)  Working with Disaffected Students: Why students lose interest in school and what we can do about it, London: Chapman Sage. ■ Ruddock, J. (2007) ‘Student voice, student engagement, and school reform’, In D. Thiessen and A. Cook-Sather (eds), International handbook of student experience in elementary and secondary school (pp 587-610), Netherlands: Springer. ■ Sergiovanni, T.J. (1992) Moral Leadership: Getting to the Heart of School Improvement, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ■ Timperley, H. and Earl, L. (2011), ‘Professional Learning’ in ‘State of the Art – Teacher ■ Effectiveness and Professional Learning, Paper presented at the 24th ■ International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Limassol, Cyprus, 4-7 January 2011, https://www.icsei.net/http://www.icsei.net/icsei2011/State_of_the_art/ ■ State_of_the_art_Session_B.pdf. ■ UNHCR (2015) Figures at a Glance,"
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Closing the achievement gap in Ulster

17 Dec 2015

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Professional Development

Pedagogy of Confidence – applying Feuerstein’s Theory to dispel the colour achievement gap myth

17 Dec 2015