Welcome to Our TEAM BUILDING MEETING

AGENDA• Call to Order• Devotion• TEAM Building – We are all in this thing together, We gonna work it out!• Sharing Excellence• Understanding the Impact of School Ethos• Using the NEI reports to Prepare for Greatness• Analysing Essential Elements/Factors

• Sustaining a culture of sharing• Organizing Teaching & Learning• Building Partnerships• Addressing Emotional Intelligence• Holistic Approach to Developing our Students- Extra Curricular Activities – Uniformed

Groups• Resources

• MOVING FORWARD• Building & Enhancing Our Relationship• Enhancing Communication• Professional Development• Termination

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STATE OF THE REGION REPORT 2014

MINISTRY OF

EDUCATIONEvery Child Can Learn, Every Child Must

An effective accountable

and efficient

education system

Equitable

Access

Accountability

Framework

Universal Literacy

Secure and Safe

Environment

Build Partnership

Robust and Rich

Environment

Enable Learners to Acquire

Knowledge and Skills

Qualified, Certified and

Licensed Teachers

MOE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

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PREPARING FOR GREATNESS

TEAM REGION 4

Ministry of Education Strategic Objectives

1. Provide equitable access and/or attachment to a high quality education

system for all 3-18.

2. Improve the standards and quality of Jamaica’s education system by robust

accountability framework accountability framework for all stakeholders.

3. Improve learners’ performance across the formal education system and the

wider society to achieve universal literacy at least 85% numeracy.

4. Provide a safe and secure physical environment which is conducive to

learning foe all learners public educational institutions.

Ministry of Education Strategic Objectives

5. Build partnership with donors, private sector partners, the community,

parents, employers, and those committed to creating a strong education

system to build the nation

6. Provide a resource-rich environment supportive of all levels in public

educational institutions by 2020.

7. Enable all learners in education system to acquire high quality academic

knowledge and marketable skills through integrated curriculum offerings.

8. Attract and retain well-qualified, certified and licensed teachers to fill the

requirements of all educational institutions at all levels of system

National Education Inspectorate (NEI) Roles and Responsibilities

The National Education Inspectorate (NEI) is responsible for making an

assessment of the standards attained by the students in our primary and

secondary schools at key points during their education.

It is the aim of the NEI to report on how well students perform or improve, as

they progress through their schooling and learning life.

The NEI is also charged with the responsibility to make recommendations to

support improvement in the quality of the provision and outcomes for all

learners.

National Education Inspectorate (NEI) Key Indicators

Eight key questions that inspectors ask about the educational provision and

performance of every school. These are:

1. How effectively is the school led and managed by the Board, the

principal and senior management team and middle leadership?

2. How effectively does the teaching support the students´ learning?

3. How well do students perform in national and/or regional tests and

assessments? (For infants: in relation to age-related expectations)

4. How much progress do students make in relation to their starting

points?

National Education Inspectorate (NEI) Key Indicators

Eight key questions that inspectors ask about the educational provision and

performance of every school. These are:

5. How good is the students´ personal and social development?

6. How effectively does the school use the human and material

resources at its disposal to help the students achieve as well as

they can?

7. How well do the curriculum and any enhancement programmes

meet the needs of the students?

8. How well does the school ensure everyone’s security, health,

safety and wellbeing?

Creating a SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL

Prepared & Presented Michele Pinnock

Professional Leadership

Leaders, who tend to be proactive, participate and share leadership, and have real knowledge of what goes on in the classroom.

Shared Vision and Goals

Effective schools build consensus on the aims and values of the school, and develop a sense of community.

This provides a

• unity of purpose,

• consistency of practice,

• ownership through Collegiality and collaboration.

A learning Environment

• The shared vision and values determine the ethos of the school. Effective schools have an orderly environment and an attractive working environment, including the display of children's work.

Concentration on Teaching and Learning

• Effectiveness is clearly dependent on effective classroom teaching.

• It is vital that schools focus on quality as well as the quantity of teaching and

learning.

• Such schools make

a.maximum use of learning time,

b.place an emphasis on mastery of basic skills and

c.embed an ethos around achievement – Celebrating

Achievement

Purposeful Teaching

Quality teaching is at the heart of effective schooling.

• efficient organisation with teachers clear about their objectives.

• Students are aware of the purposes.

• Structured lessons with teachers making use of a range of explicit teaching

strategies.

• Teacher who use adaptive practice to modify and adapt curriculum material to

suit student individual differences.

High Expectations • Positive high expectations are one of the most important factors.

• Teachers set high standards to challenges and monitor progress.

• High expectations also apply to teachers.

• Teachers convey and reinforce high expectations.

• Students are encouraged t use their creative imagination and powers of problem solving.

Positive Reinforcement • This was the most important element of all.

• This occurs where there is clear and fair discipline where students feel they belong and are able to participate.

• Direct and positive feedback has a positive effect with student behaviour and praise needs to be specific, spontaneous and varied.

Monitoring Progress • Well-established mechanisms for monitoring the progress of pupils,

classes, the school as a whole, and improvement programmes are important features.

• Monitoring by itself has little effect but is an important ingredient in an effective school to determine school wide progress.

• Some schools misdirect teaching through too frequent monitoring procedures.

• The key is appropriate monitoring with feedback. Evaluating school progress is particularly important.

Pupils Rights and Responsibilities

• Research indicates that there are considerable gains to be made when pupil self esteem is raised and when they have an active role and have responsibility for their own learning.

Home School Partnership

• Supportive relations and cooperation between home and school have positive effects.

• Effective schools not only involve parents but also make demands on them.

• The relationship between the individual teacher and the parent(s) is critical.

A Learning Organisation

• Effective schools are learning organisations where all aspects of the school are interrelated.

• To be effective development needs to be school based and tailored to the specific needs of the school.

• There is value in embedding staff development within a

•collegial and collaborative planning and ensuring ideas are shared

As we embark on this new academic journey Remember

©Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. 

~Author Unknown

Consider the postage stamp:  its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.  ~Josh Billings

Let’s commit ourselves to our MissionLet’s vow to sticking to each small task

Ensure the TEAM remains Motivated

Together Everyone Achieves More,

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma GandhiLet’s Commit Today

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