Increasing school motivation

Team's meeting room in Adobe Connect is behind this link:

https://raisio.adobeconnect.com/team1/

Team's next Adobe Connect meeting is on the 7th of June at noon London time

Next presentation is Team 1 planned acts for spring 2019 after Vaasa project week 2019

Next table is Team 1 targets and planned acts before and until Vaasa project week 2019

Vaasa project week participants: Heli Kivela, Meera Bulsara, Antonio Manday (these 3 travelled), Anne Karki, Minna Myllymaki

Rota project week participants: Anne Karki, Heli Kivela, Meera Bulsara (these 3 travelled), Antonio Manday

The first team meeting using Adobe Connect was on the 29th of October at noon London time.

Starting the team work

1. Every member of the team lists 3 – 5 challenges at their school or work, linking the teams objective.

2. What are the planned acts, acts taken in practice and acts that have worked?

3. How do you measure the results of the made acts, if you measure?

Members save their answers on this platform under his/her team link and 'city box'.

4. Team leaders collect the answers together.

The chart for this collective work is here.

5. The team goes through the summary during an online meeting.

We use Adobe Connect as our online program

- Every member of every team gets personal guidance for about half an hour.

- Team leader sends the team meeting invitation through Seppo.

- Everybody needs USB – headphones with microphone!

- You should use the same computer every time you use Adobe Connect.

- Team leader must inform team members about online meeting dates as early as possible (time in GMT).

online meeting should not last more than hour

6. Every good idea and innovation must be saved on this platform.

Getting prepared for the project week in Rota

a) Seppo sends the starting query to Rota in early October at the latest.

b) Salesian save their answers on this platform and under Starting Query before the middle of November (Seppo reminds Antonio if needed)

c) Every teams every member reads the answers before the Rota week

The query is opened and discussed together in the beginning of the project week

Discussions are saved (in writing) on GS

Leicester:

Meera Bulsara 17/10/18

Challenge 1: Regular attendance - parents and children being motivated to attend school everyday to maximize learning potential

Action:

· Track attendance of individual’s regularly, monitor patterns and trends of poor attendance and intervene as early as possible

· Work with identified families to support regular attendance

· Use attendance officer and other multi agency professionals to conduct home visits where necessary

· Embed the ethos of good attendance with pupils (assemblies, certificates, awards)

Measurement:

· Data shows improved attendance over the academic year, over a children educational career and after an intervention

· Reduced number of pupils with persistent absenteeism (Pupils who have less than 90% attendance)

· Less unauthorised absences over time

Challenge 2: Appropriateness of curriculum for a 21^st century

Action:

· Ongoing review of curriculum to ensure it is rich, purposeful and engaging.

· Appropriate hooks to engage pupils into units of learning through linked trips, visitors, drama etc

· Personalized Professional Development (CPD) for teachers through Lesson Study and opportunities to observe each other teach to encourage an open classroom school culture.

· Phase teams members plan meaningful units of learning together, ongoing evaluation of learning and planning of new lessons

Measurement:

· Improved behaviour for learning through lesson observations over time: Embedded growth mindset culture (learning attitude, desire for learning and resilience) in tackling all aspects of the curriculum.

· Evaluations of Lesson study research and proven impact on pupil learning (standards and attainment)

· Lesson observation show that teachers are highly motivated and confident to take risks and innovate their teaching practices

Challenge 3: Barriers to learning and school. (Emotional and mental health, financial stress, and single parent families.) Therefore, there is a noticeable change in attitude to school life, education is not always seen as a priority for some families.

Action

· Identify Early intervention strategies to support families with specific need (e.g. parenting skills)

· Instill a positive association with school life and school readiness from the onset through transition arrangements (Home visits, play and stay, induction meetings, pre school visits)

· Establishing a learning culture for the whole school community using strategies to engage parents from the onset of their child starting school (Curriculum evenings and workshops, craft days, craft projects)

· Celebrate school life through social media, newsletters and local newspapers (Twitter, Thurmaston Times)

Measurement

· Parent and teacher feedback from home visits

· Parent survey responses - targeted families say their child enjoys coming to school and are happy

· Impact of any direct work as a result of early intervention (e.g improved behaviour at home, bedtime routine etc)

· Reports from other multi-agency professionals

· Attendance, engagement and feedback from parents who attend curriculum evenings

· Followers and engagement through twitter

Vaasa

Challenge 1:

-School motivation for pupils decrease

Action:

-The school has added functional teaching

Challenge 2:

-Pupils with special needs increase

Action:

-We have hired more teachers and pupil care staff

Challenge 3:

-Parents motivation of school in positive feelings

Action:

-more happenings in school for parents

Measurement:

-guery for parents

Rota

12/10/2018 (Spanish National Day) / Miguel Beltrán & Antonio Manday

Challenge 1: Parents must motivate their children.

Acts:

• Participating actively in the everyday school life.

Measurement:

• Group meetings attendance: they are compulsory in Andalucía once a term, at least.
• Personal interviews attendance: including the students from more or less 8 years old.

Challenge 2: Creating a familiar atmosphere at school, so students feel happy, cheerful, relaxed... (Salesians Preventive System).

Acts:

• Make the students aware that we take care and worry for them, not only for their academic results but for their personal problems.
• Be positive, as far as we can, and transmit optimism.
• Be present and among the students during the breaks and the possible leisure time. This way the teachers are accesible just in case the students need them and we can also prevent misbehaviour.

Measurement:

• Break timetable for teachers.
• Observation.

Challenge 3: Make the school be more than an academic place, opened school.

Acts:

• Keep our Youth Centre active throughout the year, even in the summer holidays (Youth Theatre School).
• Extracurricular activities: sports, languages, music, ICT...
• Improve the celebration of our two most important Salesian festivities (31st January & 24th May), in order to make them more attractive for our students.

Measurement:

• Number of students who participate actively in our Youth Centre.
• Number of students enroled in the extracurricular activities.
• Satisfaction survey.