The London Challenge
Service Area 2
Target getting and effective intervention, assessment for learning
The Offer
Whole-school: Working with senior staff to develop whole school mechanisms which shift the focus to target getting
- Advice on scheduling of KS4 to ensure the school's cycle of target setting, planning, action, testing, assessment and intervention (including target group support) best supports high performance
- Lesson planning and Scheme of Work formats which overtly use levels and grade descriptors
- Improving information to students and parents ('reporting') about what they need to do next, in each subject to stay on track
- Improving Academic Review Days and Mentoring to better impact on academic performance. How to support parents of under-achieving students (including external EL support for this in Year 11)
- Setting and grouping to maximise students-on-target
Making it happen
To arrange any of these services, please contact Danny Lynch in the Education London office: 01372 363 628 danny.lynch@educationlondon.org.uk
The Offer
Subject and student level
- EL subject specialists work with subject departments in KS3 and KS4 to externally mark and assess student performance in key tests and mocks (most commonly in maths, English and science) this leads to:
- an external check for the teacher on the accuracy of their assessment
- a report and recommendations to the department for teaching and revision focus by skill and topic
- when commissioned – written feedback to individual students and (parents) tutorials with EL consultant for students in a target group
- Subject target group work scrutiny by EL specialist (work books, test results) to identify strong and weak learning areas in relation to exam requirements
- Service Area 6 ('Behaviour Coaching')
Making it happen
To arrange any of these services, please contact Danny Lynch or John Beighton in the Education London office: 01372 363 630 danny.lynch@educationlondon.org.uk or use this electronic form (MS Word Doc)