WOW
Here's some headlines. Remember these things happened within a three week period:
Primary Schools:
- class spelling success went from 45% to 92% - Headteacher says: ''fantastic results''
- general level of responsiveness of a different class significantly improved
- individual child with no interest in reading. Her reading age went from 5yrs10mth to 7yrs9mth and now has a real desire to read
- children report 'feeling better about themselves'
- lessons are more relaxed
- individual child's attitude to writing: miraculous change
- occurances of help required by a particular child down from 10 requests to 5
Secondary schools
- pupil goes from grade D/E to a C for English
- amazed at way pupil's attitudes 'flip' from negative to positive
- raised awareness of language used by other staff
- significant understanding of need to 'go there first' when affecting the pupils' states
- 6th form revision group reports a 25% greater shift of positive responses than equivalent control group
Advisory Teachers
- emphasis on pacing, rapport, 3 positions and wel-formed outcomes in lesson observation process
- contact negtiations with headteacher much more effective
These are just the headlines as reported over the last two days. Kate and I will keep you informed as to what we are going to do with the data and the processes, attitudes and understandings developed by the participants and their pupils.
All the best
John
