Transforming Schools
Transforming Education
Janet Morrison
BA MEd (London) PGTC
Transforming schools and education–
what’s it all about?
• Academies
• Building Schools
for the Future
• Community
cohesion
• 21st century
demands
• Learners
© Christian Boltanksi
Academies
challenge traditional
thinking on how schools are run
and what they should be like for
students. They seek to make a
complete break with cultures of
low aspiration which afflict too
many communities and their
schools. The Standards Site – What are Academies?
Sponsors
Building Schools for the Future
© Aedas
Community Cohesion
• There is a strong sense of an individual’s
rights and responsibilities when living in a
particular place – people know what
everyone expects of them, and what they
can expect in turn.
• There is a strong sense of trust in
institutions locally to act fairly in arbitrating
between different interests and for their
role and justifications to be subject to
public scrutiny.
Our Shared Future, the final report of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion, June 2007
Demands of the 21st Century
• It is estimated that by the age of 38,
today’s learners will have had 10 – 14
jobs
• We are currently preparing students for
jobs that do not exist
• Using technologies that do not yet exist
• In order to solve problems we don’t
even know are problems yet
Our children
• 98% children aged 12 in the UK ‘want to do
well at school’
• Only 38% look forward to going to school
• 84% young people play a computer game at
least once a fortnight
• 72% teachers have never played a computer
game
• The number of text messages sent and
received each day exceeds the population of
the entire planet
•
Data from Shift Happens by Karl Fisch, Ray Fleming and Jeff Brenman March 2007
North Westminster Community School
© Faisal Adbu’Allah
• 3 - site school in transition to 2 Academies
• ‘Very challenging physical, social and educational
circumstances’ (HMI)
• The ‘most complex’ school in England (DfES)
• 1865 students, approximately 53% FSM
• 1516 speak English as an additional language
Priorities for Education
• Quality of learning
• Enabling students to
make appropriate
choices
• A sense of worth
• Developing student
responsibilities
© Christian Boltanski
HMI May 2005
‘this positive climate encouraged the pupils to
make confident contributions and to actively
engage in learning …
The school works hard and imaginatively to
involve the pupils and parents from all
communities in the life of the school and to raise
the aspirations of all of these pupils, including
those who have lived in this country for only a
short time’
References
© Faisal Abdu’Allah
• Academies:
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/academies/what_are_academies/?v
ersion=1
• Schools for the future: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/7991/T
• Guidance for schools on Community Cohesion
http://www.cohesioninstitute.org.uk/resources/Publications/Guidance
• Shift Happens :
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8548df743a186
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Janet Morrison
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T: 020 8244 4200
M: 07768 741049