Teaching & Learning

Expert teaching

Our dedicated teachers have excellent subject knowledge and they can offer you guidance and support in developing your skills, confidence and examination techniques.

Through a supportive and inspiring style of teaching and mentoring we ensure you are prepared thoroughly for your on-going assessments and examinations and can approach them in a relaxed and confident manner.

During your time at the sixth form you will also gain all important study skills that will benefit you at a higher level of study should you choose to go on to university.

We continually look to develop our provision further and look for innovative approaches that will add to and enhance our already outstanding teaching and provision. We are always keen to integrate new technology into our practise where it can be shown to have a positive impact on student attainment.

You will be joining the Sixth Form in order to maximise your academic potential and we are passionate about helping to ensure this. Your teachers will all be experts in their respective fields, sharing their knowledge with you through innovative and inspiring lessons. You will be encouraged to discover things for yourself and ask questions to deepen your learning.

Subject teachers will stretch and challenge you and you are expected to work hard in return. Our teaching staff will go that extra mile to support you outside of your lessons, meeting with you in study periods, at lunchtimes and after school to reinforce your learning.

	Students	Teachers	Coordinators	HOD/HOY
1. Deliver	Students participate in lessons	1. Delivery of lessons according to SOW	1. To ensure resources are available for teachers 2. SOW is available to teachers	1. To ensure good quality of teaching is taking place
2. Assess	1. Class tests/assignments 2. Assessment point tests	1. Class assessments logged in data tracking sheet 2. AP tests conducted in class	1. Monitor the teachers data entry into data tracking sheets 2. Monitor student progress	1. Overview on student progress
3. Mark	1. Ongoing feedback is reflected apon	1. Teachers mark the papers (marking of work is ongoing)	1. Ensure marking is ongoing	1. Overview on marking
4. Moderate		1. Teachers moderate together and adjust marks (if necessary) 2. Revisit marking (if necessary) 3. Enter grades into Sims	1. Ensure grades are entered into Sims.
5. Review	1. Students reflect on their marks from AP tests and respond to teacher feedback (Response proforma attached to AP tests	1. Teachers reflect on marking & identify area(s) of weaknesses for the students (could vary between teachers) 2. Plan for Reteach & redo” week	1. Offer support, where necessary, for planning of “Reteach & Redo” week 2. Review grades from data-tracking sheets & Sims – identify students who require intervention	1. Overview of planning 2. Ensure coordinators have an intervention list
6. Reteach & Redo	1. Students have opportunity to redraft or consolidate understanding	1. Teachers reteach topics (a week allocated – all teachers reteach during this week)	1. Ensure all Reteach or Redo during this week
7. Intervene	1. Students to attend all intervention programmes (attendance of intervention linked to bursary) 2. Some students to “buddy-up” with peers to offer support	1. Teachers identify students who need further support	1. Coordinators deliver, or organise the delivery of, interventions 2. Coordinators monitor attendance and progress of these individuals, by having learning conversations with each of them (fill in LC proforma)	1. To ensure students are attending interventions (taking appropriate action where necessary)
8. Design		1. Revise curriculum design & make adjustments to SOW (What went well, Even better if…)	1. Line management meeting between HOD & Coordinators
9. Approve		1. Share and approve adjustments with rest of department during faculty/departmental meeting

Students

Teachers

Coordinators

HOD/HOY

1. Deliver

Students participate in lessons

1. Delivery of lessons according to SOW

1. To ensure resources are available for teachers
2. SOW is available to teachers

1. To ensure good quality of teaching is taking place

2. Assess

1. Class tests/assignments
2. Assessment point tests

1. Class assessments logged in data tracking sheet
2. AP tests conducted in class

1. Monitor the teachers data entry into data tracking sheets
2. Monitor student progress

1. Overview on student progress

3. Mark

1. Ongoing feedback is reflected apon

1. Teachers mark the papers (marking of work is ongoing)

1. Ensure marking is ongoing

1. Overview on marking

4. Moderate

1. Teachers moderate together and adjust marks (if necessary)
2. Revisit marking (if necessary)
3. Enter grades into Sims

1. Ensure grades are entered into Sims.

5. Review

1. Students reflect on their marks from AP tests and respond to teacher feedback (Response proforma attached to AP tests

1. Teachers reflect on marking & identify area(s) of weaknesses for the students (could vary between teachers)
2. Plan for Reteach & redo” week

1. Offer support, where necessary, for planning of “Reteach & Redo” week
2. Review grades from data-tracking sheets & Sims – identify students who require intervention

1. Overview of planning
2. Ensure coordinators have an intervention list

6. Reteach & Redo

1. Students have opportunity to redraft or consolidate understanding

1. Teachers reteach topics (a week allocated – all teachers reteach during this week)

1. Ensure all Reteach or Redo during this week

7. Intervene

1. Students to attend all intervention programmes (attendance of intervention linked to bursary)
2. Some students to “buddy-up” with peers to offer support

1. Teachers identify students who need further support

1. Coordinators deliver, or organise the delivery of, interventions
2. Coordinators monitor attendance and progress of these individuals, by having learning conversations with each of them (fill in LC proforma)

1. To ensure students are attending interventions (taking appropriate action where necessary)

8. Design

1. Revise curriculum design & make adjustments to SOW (What went well, Even better if…)

1. Line management meeting between HOD & Coordinators

9. Approve

1. Share and approve adjustments with rest of department during faculty/departmental meeting

Expert teaching

Assessment and monitoring progress: The Assessment Cycle

Mulberry Stepney Green Sixth Form Study Programme

Core aim of a study programme

Planned hours