This week @MeolsCopHS is launching a new homework policy, something that’s been almost a year on a making.

A thread 🧵 on implementation Firstly, as with effective implementation, we began to identify the ‘why’

This involves creating up a T&L Inquiry group - totally voluntary, made up of a range of staff who were keen to be involved

At @MeolsCopHS today we launched the first of our new Instructional Rounds cycle:

This is a classroom teacher led professional development opportunity for staff to see & share good practice within our school. Flipping traditional observation & learning walks on their head. In essence, 12 staff working in triads are taken off timetable for the morning.

They observe 24 lessons between them, looking for the excellent practice & ‘bright spots’ within the classroom. This time as a general overview of the school.

This is part of the IR Cycle 👇

Our whole school T&L focus this year is a return to Metacognition and Self Regulated Learning.

I’ve been lucky to draw on the expertise of the @meolsresearch team & training to develop our CPD plan, built around the excellent @EducEndowFoundn PD programme. Our first session led with the important ‘why’, some reading from the EEF Guidance Report & a summary based on @FunkyPedagogy’s book.

Booklets - a thread on my current process in designing them and using them.

I’ve just finished my most recent one, so time to reflect

I’ll probably blog this up eventually, initially I’d planned to talk at @TMHistoryIcons but I’m useless at sorting my life out 🤷‍♂️

/n Rationale -

I’ve a new Y9 cohort who are LPA, so I wanted to both make the course accessible but challenging and apply #cogsci principles

Also, something @MrSamPullan tweeted last year, “use the notes, don’t do the notes” struck with mea reduce time on heavy note making