Value Added by https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh Challenge, High Expectations, Curiosity en-us 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC 2025-12-02 17:33:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4a1.png Activity: Exam Question Challenge laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119697 Ask learners to produce (an) exam question(s) that they could answer confidently. 

Gather the questions and redistribute them at random. Learners will be given a set time to answer the question(s) they received. 

Learners then meet up with the question author to mark their work against the marking rubric.

Allow learners a short amount of time to improve their answer.]]> 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119697 The Pygmalion Effect: The Latest Research laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119700 In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a renowned sculptor. He had such love for one of his statues that the gods turned it into a real person.

This story gave its name to the Pygmalion Effect, which is the power of having high expectations of someone else.

No-one rises to low expectations. What we permit, we promote. If we lower our standards in terms of behavior and what is possible, then students will automatically and subconsciously follow suit.

By believing that everyone has the capacity to learn and improve, and by supplementing this with strategies such as focusing on process and mastery, we can ensure that no child is ever left behind.
]]> 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119700 Developing and Modelling a Growth Mindset laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119701 'The way we think about ourselves and our abilities can have a significant impact on our performance, at work, during studies, and in everyday life. Yet not everyone takes the time to think about the way they think and may make assumptions about their skills that can be negative. So what is a growth mindset? And how can it help us achieve our goals? 

Here, we explore the definition of a growth mindset, how it differs from a fixed mindset, and how you can work to develop a growth mindset. As well as giving some practical examples, we’ll also suggest some courses that can help you progress.'
]]> 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119701 Activity: Challenging Questions laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119702 We can use our everyday learning check techniques to promote hard thinking!

When we ask open questions to the room, learners opt in to answer...or they opt out.

Use mini whiteboards, true / false sheets, a show of hands or another whole class answer method to gather your initial response. 

From the intial response, begin bouncing around the challenge using the question prompts here or some of your own:

- Do you agree? Why?
- What makes you think that?
- What if I said that's not true?
- How might that relate to current events?
- How might you argue against that answer?
- What would happen if...?]]> 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119702 Growth Mindset: Whole Team Approach (Podcast) laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119703 Rachel Macfarlane talking about building the Isaac Newton Academy on Dweck's principle of Growth Mindset, and the incredible impact on learner outcomes.

A really powerful, motivating podcast.]]> 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119703 Activity: Shared Expectations laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119704 At the beginning of a new academic year, I always create expectations with my groups.

We imagine that they are already in industry. They might have landed a leading role in a West End musical, joined Royal Philharmonic Orchestra or booked an arena gig with their band. We talk about their new role, and what they need to succeed. We talk specifically about what they need from their colleagues to succeed. They tell me that they need their colleagues to attend rehearsals, to not arrive late, to treat them with respect and kindess...

I write it all down on the whiteboard.

They tell me they need their colleagues to arrive with the proper equipment, to take care of themselves so they don't fall poorly, to ask for help and to respresent the organisation well even when they're not working. You can go as deep as you like with the expectations.

Then I ask them to imagine that I am part of the company. I am their musical director, their conductor or their manager. I ask them what they need from me to succeed. 

Many requests are very similar to their colleagues. To arrive on time, to be prepared etc. Others are more specific, like let them ask questions and find answers that they need. To help them when they need me and to not shout at them.

I write it all down and agree.

The whiteboard becomes our Team Expectations for the duration of our time together. I take a photograph of it, or ask them to create graphics. It's uploaded to their Google Classroom and Google Chat group. Sometimes it's printed and displayed on classroom walls. 

It's referred back to constantly. I often check that we're in agreement that I am meeting my expectations, and that tehy are meeting theirs. 

I've found it to be a really powerful tool.]]> 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119704 High Expectations Improve Performance laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119705 'Teachers often hold unspoken beliefs about what their students can achieve, and research shows that those mindsets matter. Several studies have found that students recognize when teachers hold high expectations for them and perform better academically when educators do so. Conversely, when teachers hold lower expectations for some students, these are correlated with lower academic achievement.

Recommendations

  • Articulate shared high expectations for student engagement, work, and mastery across the school, district, or network. Use Professional Learning Community time to address current mindsets, assumptions, beliefs, biases, and prejudices that may influence staff's ability to set and hold students to high expectations as the school focuses on recovery.

  • Select rigorous high-quality instructional materials.

  • Use effective whole-group instruction instead of ability grouping as much as possible, so that lower-performing students are exposed to rigorous, grade-level content.

  • Implement a schoolwide approach to grading student work with high standards, including rubrics, grading scales, and common policies for accepting late assignments.

  • Implement a schoolwide approach to managing student behavior.

  • Survey students on whether they believe that teachers hold high academic expectations for them. Survey instruments to consider include those from Tripod or Panorama Education.

  • When hiring for teacher vacancies, look for candidates with a record of high expectations for children, and especially children of color.'
]]> 2023-06-19 12:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2627119705 What is Value Added? laurakayes https://padlet.com/laurakayes/dd8v591mq3q8dcjh/wish/2630114542 If we looked at all learners of a certain age and measured their progress over a certain period of time we would find that this progress had a ‘Bell Curve’ or Normal Distribution. Some learners would make a small amount of progress, most would make a near average progression and a few would make exceptional progress.

As well as being subject to natural variation, the improvement in achievement owes a lot to the environments in which learners find themselves.

The quality of teaching, availability of resources and many other factors may have an effect on the progress of individual learners. In fact, if we consider a fixed period of time we can talk of the amount of improvement a school has added to the learner.

All schools and colleges improve their learners in this way. However, if one school or college is increasing the achievement level of its learners more than other schools or colleges are, then its pupils gain an additional advantage.

It is this relative advantage that has come to be called value-added. 

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