ࡱ> ~@ Hjbjb "hh;l4     ( q3(:bbbbN.3030303030303,5 ;7\3A \\3bb(|bb.3P^^.38 Sz/hz0$a!  F0z0q3q3`077z0Active Schemes of Work An Active Scheme of Work shows what will be taught when, but also gives student activities for each topic or teaching objective. It also: addresses any missing prior learning includes time and strategies to teach skills (such as assignment or essay writing), as well as content. integrates ILT, equal opportunities and key skills into the teaching scheme Teaching teams share their approaches and choose the most effective student activity for each topic or objective. Sometimes they agree a choice of activities. An alternative way to achieve an Active Schemes of Work is for the teaching team to share and develop a list of active teaching methods or learning strategies that are specifically suitable for their subject. For example create a spiral bound booklet called Active Methods for Teaching English Literature at AS and A level. The team can use this to help them plan their lessons. Certain methods may be identified as being particularly useful for certain specific parts of the curriculum rather as in the Active Scheme of Work described above, but in most cases this is not usually done and the choice of method from the booklet is left to the teacher. This booklet can then go on to outline strategies for developing Generic Skills etc as well as formative assessment strategies in a similar way to the Active Scheme of Work described above. When the rest of this document refers to the Active Scheme of Work it usually means either of the two alternatives above. Why use an Active Scheme of Work? Active learning works. Research shows that active learning is by far the best for recall, student enjoyment, deep learning (full understanding), and for correcting the learners misunderstandings. It improves results. School improvement research shows that Teachers have about three times the effect on achievement as their managers. So achievement, and students life chances, can only be improved if teaching is improved. It is likely to get commitment to improvement. Subject centred discussion on how to teach well is at the heart of a teachers role, teachers usually enjoy being involved in practical development in their own subject area. Teams share best practice so the best teaching methods are available to all It raises expectations of teaching quality. Active schemes of work can raise expectations of what it means to teach well, as well as showing how this can be done. It stores best practice. Good teachers who leave the college leave behind their methods for others to benefit from and enjoy. It supports beginning teachers. Novice teachers are given effective methods to adopt, and to learn from. It promotes professional development. Writing the scheme promotes subject centred discussion on effective teaching and so develops staff. Resources to develop Active Schemes of Work It is going to take time to improve Schemes of Work. Using Standards Fund Money it has been proposed that Programme Managers and possibly others should have their teaching load reduced during 2002-2003 to make time for this development. Also, Staff Development Days will be set aside for teams to get down to the work involved. There will be a planning day for Programme Managers on May 14th 2002. Programme teams will meet for at least one other day between May 14th and the end of the summer term. It is hoped that teams will have made all their strategic decisions on Schemes of Work by September 2002, and that six weeks of the Schemes of Work will have been completed in detail. The rest of the Scheme will be produced during the rest of the academic year. What exactly is an Active Scheme of Work? It is just best practice in planning, so you will do much of it already. The headings below show the main sections of an Active Scheme of Work. In practice there is often overlap between these sections. Before agreeing on the active teaching methods, your teaching team will first need to agree the learning required. This includes deciding on the prior learning required for early success, and the learning required for high achievement. Numbers 1, 2, 4, 7,and 8 below will involve actual student activities that will appear on the Scheme of Work, the other sections may not involve such student activities. As well as the Scheme of Work itself, you will also need to write a short description of your approach for each section 1-9. I imagine it will only take a few sides of A4 in total to explain your approach, there is no need to go into great detail. Its the teaching that counts! You might like to divide up this writing amongst your team. What follows will look at the main components of a Active Scheme of Work in detail. You may have done some of this already, and have it working well. If so, great! There is clearly no need to do more. You will be unlikely to have done all that follows though. 1. Prior Learning required for early success This is the prior learning required to make a success of, say, the first six weeks of your course. This includes: The key skills required for early success. For example students may need to do costing calculations, but may not need fractions. The KeySkillBuilder diagnostic test gives details on sub-skills (such as fractions, decimals etc) for each of your students. (You may want to improve the whole of a Key Skill, but some sub-skills will be more crucial to early success on your course than others.) Study skills required for early success. Depending on how you teach, you may include skills such as taking notes, organising your folder, using the library, searching the internet, having the courage to seek help etc. See the Learning to Learn competency/checklist for ideas. Research shows that these skills are best taught with subject specific content rather than in separate sessions. See Effective Teaching of Study Skills. Subject specific prior learning This is learning you hope your students have on arrival! e.g. Osmosis, childhood diseases, basic algebraic manipulation etc Diagnosis: Once the prior learning required for early success has been agreed the team can work out a way of diagnosing whether this is in place. You can devise a subject specific diagnostic test, or a can you do this questionnaire, or student activity to collect this information. Alternatively you can devise the first few assignments with care so it diagnoses who cant do what. Remidiation: Once you know who cant do what you can plan how to fix these weaknesses in prior learning. This might involve homework, homework clubs, peer tutoring, learning teams, learning support, or time on the Scheme of Work etc. There are two main strategies: Teach the whole class (where most students do not have the required skill or knowledge) Set targets for individual students based on their diagnosis. These could contribute to IOLAP and STAR targets. Does time need to be allowed in class for this learning, or will they do it in their own time if so will they need support? 2. New Subject knowledge This is the course content you would find on almost any Schemes of Work. However on an Active Scheme of Work there will be student activites for each topic or sub-topic. There are suggested activities on  HYPERLINK "http://geoffpetty.moonfruit.com" http://geoffpetty.moonfruit.com being prepared to help you with each phase of the PAR model (Present, Apply, Review): Present: You can present students with new information and theory without teacher talk or videos. See 23 methods for teaching without talking Apply: As well as past paper questions and worksheets you could try the active methods described in 23 methods to apply learning which is in preparation. Teaching Today has suggested methods in chapters 14-32 Review: Most people use Question and answer, tests, quizzes, etc, but dont forget what people variously call mindmaps, spider diagrams or concept maps . 3. Identification of Critical Skills (Generic Skills) These are the skills required for success with assignments, essays, coursework, and other assessments. They are sometimes called Generic Skills. They are usually high-order skills on Blooms Taxonomy e.g. evaluation, synthesis, analysis etc. They do not appear in the content of the Syllabus or Unit Specification, but might be mentioned in it elsewhere. For example in a humanities subject Critical skills might include: Synthesis: planning coherent and well structured essays or answers to exam questions; thinking of examples and evidence relevant to a question or point of view; defining technical terms as a matter of course in essays and exam questions; etc Evaluation: Giving both sides of the argument; quoting evidence for each substantial point made; giving examples to support points of view; using means and ends to justify a judgement; etc. You can identify the Critical skills that are vital for success by referring to: Syllabus/Unit Specifications etc The nature of your subject Examiners Reports, External verifiers comments etc A Curriculum Audit Difficulties that students commonly encounter etc Once these Critical Skills have been agreed, the team can devise a teaching strategy that will ensure their development, and can allow time for teaching these difficult skills. It is helpful to consider methods to teach both Process (how its done) and Product (what good work looks like). There is a separate paper Critical Skills Teaching or Generic Skills Teaching on strategies for developing Critical Skills. See me for this or find it on  HYPERLINK "http://geoffpetty.moonfruit.com" http://geoffpetty.moonfruit.com under Active Learning. Action research projects in FE Colleges have shown that a critical skills teaching policy can greatly improve attainment. See Geoffs paper How to get a pass rate of 100%, with 90% grades A to C! for details. 4. Critical Skills teaching strategy Your team will have devised a strategy for teaching the Critical Skills on your course. This will need planning, writing, and some time on the Scheme of Work. 5. Learning and Teaching Methodology Positive Reinforcement strategy Research shows that positive reinforcement affects achievement more than any other factor. Students need to know about the progress they are making. They need to know about their strengths. This might include: Assessment Proformas that require a medal for what students have done satisfactorily or better. Competences e.g. informal learning to learn competences, or good behaviour competences for students to tick off or have signed off by the teacher One-to-Ones with the subject teacher in addition to STAR Days. Individual teacher attention can be the most powerful method of confirming success. Tracking documents or wall charts for students to record the completion of topics, assignments, tests, attendance, punctuality, or other course requirements Graduated Tasks. Setting assignments, worksheets, essays etc with a mix of easy and hard or mastery and developmental tasks so that the weakest students experience some success. Mastery learning (This is a system of very easy, very short tests that students mark themselves. If the student gets less than the pass mark (about 8/10) they do remedial work, and then take again those questions they got wrong on a similar test. Alternatively remedial work is checked by peers or by the teacher. You can also devise mastery games rather like Trivial Pursuits. See the assessment chapter in Teaching Today Geoffrey Petty Short qualifications for early success e.g. a First Aid Certificate or an OCN qualification for students to get in their first term. Displays of students work Reward Schemes for appropriate behaviour, attendance, punctuality etc. These have been remarkably successful. See me for details. Increasing the use of praise and recognition etc in class etc There is an Action Research Proposal on Positive Reinforcement that you might find helpful, it summarises best practice in this area. See Action Research Proposals on  HYPERLINK "http://geoffpetty.moonfruit.com" http://geoffpetty.moonfruit.com Find faults and Fix strategy Research shows that if you get this right you can improve students performance by up to two grades. Students need to know what they need to improve. Their efforts to improve need to be monitored and supported, and followed up so that weaknesses are addressed. This might include: Assessment Proformas which require corrections, or targets for the next piece of work. Students doing corrections, improvement tasks, or other corrective work Mastery Learning See pages 403 to 410 in Teaching Today 2nd Ed Geoffrey Petty Tests and Quizzes used diagnostically to set targets for improvement (See the Action Research Proposal called Tests and Quizzes to Find Faults and Fix) Using students work diagnostically to set targets Etc. 6. Other Learning and Teaching approaches Your team may decide to address The integration of ILT into your programme The use of Independent Learning Project work Integrated revision etc 7. Key Skills Strategy You may or may not integrate Key Skills assessment into your teaching programme, but you will certainly want to develop those key skills important for success on your course. If others are assessing and teaching Key Skills for your students you might like to liase with the staff involved to ensure: You and they are singing from the same hymn-sheet regarding those Key Skills that are important to your subject, for example by agreeing a common approach to assignment or essay planning. To see if they can add subject specific value to your students while they teach Key Skills. For example you might provide subject specific numeracy work sheets To agree subject specific Key Skills assignments To prioritise the development of those Key Skills that are most important to you etc 8. Assessment Plan This is the plan for all internal and external assessments. If you teach only one aspect of a course your assessment plan will need to fit in with that of your team. 9.Course Handbook Students need to know about your teaching plans too of course! A Course Handbook gives students the information they need about their subject or course, including the scheme of work, assessment details etc. This should appear on the college intra-net, but may also be issued on paper. The Active Scheme of Work: Integrating content, skills, and missing prior learning and teaching strategies Purposes: To find and fix weaknesses in prior learning that prevent early success To identify and teach the skills as well as the content required for success in on-programme assessments (Generic Skills)  Active Scheme of Work 2002-2003 For:Week DateSyllabus/ Spec. Ref.Content and Teacher ActivityStudent Activity (Activities to apply the content)Key Skills Development & AssessmentHW Deadline DateHW Back to student date1. 2. 3. 4.  Active Scheme of Work 2002-2003 For:Week DateSyllabus/ Spec. Ref.Content and Teacher ActivityStudent Activity (Activities to apply the content)HW Deadline DateHW Back to student date1. 2. 3. 4.  Action Plan Produced The Individual Learning Plan includes a response to weaknesses in the students prior learning and Key Skills. Fix weak prior learning Identify deficiencies in prior learning which threaten early success on the course. This includes: Weaknesses in Key Skills Weaknesses in curriculum specific learning Generic Skill Development Identify the generic skills that are vital for success by referring to: Syllabus/Unit Specifications etc Nature of the subject Examiners Reports Curriculum Audit Difficulties students commonly encounter etc TEACHING PLANS: Active Scheme of Work Lesson Plans, Feedback policy: Assessment Proformas, Assessment Plans Induction, tutorials, IOLAP and STAR targets Course Handbook etc.. Key Skills Diagnostic Test Profile students Develop a diagnostic test or some other method of profiling individual students in terms of their subject-specific prior learning. Curriculum Audit To discover the subject specific prior learning assumed by the programme, and required for early success Monitoring and Tracking A find faults and fix strategy is developed for both Generic Skills, and for Prior Learning deficiencies. 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