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May 2020
9:55am, 15 May 2020
36,477 posts
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LindsD
My next summer is definitely a gonner. And this one, too. I'm struggling not to feel overwhelmed. Luckily, in a way, my UG teaching is S2, so whilst S2 and 3 will be hell, S1 will not be. Apart from developing the online content.
A colleague from the OU told us last week that it takes them 2-3 years to develop an online module....
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May 2020
10:01am, 15 May 2020
19,295 posts
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DeeGee
Primary teachers. A quick question please, with regard to preparedness for September.
Our trust's secondaries always use KS2 attainment data to put students into ability bands before starting with us. With a 400 student entry into Y7 there is very little alternative - we cannot timetable an entirely comprehensive cohort, and we give an additional MFL to the top end, and support lessons in numeracy and/or literacy at the bottom end.
Recently we've used the KS2 scaled score of with 100 as the national mean to do this, but this data would not be available for our cohort on entry this year.
Will it be an unnecessarily onerous additional task this year, at a time of already high stress, to request as part of the transition materials to secondary, that each student has a teacher appraisal as to whether they would have been Below, Working Towards, At or Above the national standard in Reading and Maths? That's all we'll need.
I don't want to put this forward to the MAT management team and put my name on it if it's going to result in ill-will towards us if we request it.
Our primaries have a recording system that I can just hoover the information out of with no additional work required, but I don't know how it is elsewhere.
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May 2020
10:04am, 15 May 2020
1,072 posts
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Grast_girl
This summer seems more hopeful to me, but I'm sure we'll be under a lot of pressure to put in research proposals to make up for the financial shortfall, whereas we should probably be furloughing as many teaching staff as possible so they'll be able to get through what is basically going to be 18 months of hell.
Yes, I'd heard that about the OU takes a lot more time over these things than we do. Our lead time for a new module is about 12 months, and the actual content is often created about 2 weeks before we teach it.
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May 2020
10:23am, 15 May 2020
36,485 posts
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LindsD
We are under a lot of pressure to create excellent online content to scaffold whatever teaching will be able to take place f2f and to be there in case we have to lock down again at some point in AY20/21. Sigh.
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May 2020
10:55am, 15 May 2020
13,992 posts
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HowFar?
DeeGee. I personally wouldn't mind being asked for that sort of information for pupils transferring. We'd normally meet with post primary schools anyway to pass on information.
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May 2020
12:01pm, 15 May 2020
3,603 posts
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Mrsbridgewater
I teacher in a Catholic school and, during staff briefing today, I found out that today is the feast day of John-Baptiste de la Salle - the patron saint of teachers. If I believed in that sort of thing I'd be sending up a prayer or two right now!
I read the guidance to primary schools last night (what can I say? I have insomnia) and it is so patronising.
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May 2020
1:12pm, 15 May 2020
1,074 posts
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Grast_girl
Dare I ask for a link to it Mrsbridgewater, so I can put it on the side bar?
*Ducks*
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May 2020
1:42pm, 15 May 2020
3,604 posts
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Mrsbridgewater
I don't have it on this laptop (my home one) but I found it via a Dept of Education tweet.
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May 2020
5:29pm, 15 May 2020
4,092 posts
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Cyclops
DeeGee - we have that information to hand. I imagine that most primaries will. Y6 (and Y2) reports will include a 'what we would have expected them to get had we been at school as normal' grade and comment.
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May 2020
5:30pm, 15 May 2020
4,093 posts
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Cyclops
Oh, and the last line of the guidance document is 'this is just guidance; you don't have to follow it' after you've read it and sworn all the way through.
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Qualiifications advice???? any teachers out there??
Aug 2011