Bogangar Public School Update
Where are we now? Where are we heading?
The halfway point of our management plan: July 2013
Feedback
Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement, but its influence can be either positive or negative. (Hattie et al 2007)
2012:
Teachers have engaged in PL sessions about feedback, the research on its effectiveness and its use in the classroom.
By end of 2012, school developed a Feedback Policy
WALT and WILF introduced into all classrooms
57% of students indicated that feedback is provided ( SPS Nov 2012)
2013:
Feedback linked to TARS expectations and process
Enact feedback policy
Support implementation of feedback with PL ( eg Langford Term 2 all teachers)
Writing
2013 Target: All students to improve at one cluster level between Term 1 and Term 4 2013
- Measuring Progress ( Visible Learning) All tchrs use the writing continuum to monitor student progress
- Tchrs produce an A sample of the genre they are teaching - shared in newsletters and on assemblies
- 7 Steps to Writing program - teachers trained
- The use of capacity matrixes for students to self assess using success criteria (David Langford & Visible Learning)
- Generic writing assessment tools produced in line with new syllabus documents.
Student Welfare: Solving the Jigsaw
Solving the Jigsaw is a multi-award winning early intervention and violence prevention program that works to reduce the incidence and impact of violence and bullying in children’s lives.
2012:
- Student welfare management group researched to find a program that would address the issues raised in the situational analysis eg Bullying concerns, bystander behaviour, lack of behaviour improvement
- 3 teachers trained (9 days) in Jigsaw
- SDD : Staff training in Jigsaw
2013.
- Commenced implementation in the classrooms with the guidance of a Jigsaw facilitator one day/week.
- After 5 weeks - T and D staff mtg held to review progress
- Facilitator was funded by P&C term 1, Fundraising Term 2 ( Woolworths) and funding has been secured from the Centre for Non Violence in Victoria for Semester 2.