The following is John MacBeaths presentation from Tomorrows
Teachers:Success Through Standards Conference Zayed University 2002
Slide 2 THREE QUESTIONS Which world country has the highest
standards? What does the word standards mean to you? What is the
best way to raise standards? Slide 3 A MEASURE OF LEARNING? What
can tests measure and what cant they measure? What is most worth
measuring? What can we deduce from aggregated data and what is its
value? Is age of student a good basis for making comparisons? When
is an outcome an outcome? How much are measures sensitive to
context time, place, relationship, mood, motivation? Does learning
follow a smooth sequential path or is a more erratic process? What
are the effects of testing on learning? What are the social and
peer group effects on learning? Who gets the credit for what
students learn? Slide 4 Bottom up Top down support pressure
internalexternal Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7 Measure prior level of
attainment Account for input of resources eg time Document nature
of process Measure output and calculate value added THE MISSING
STEPS? Slide 8 attainment tactical learning understanding
metacognition learning skills and strategies Slide 9 attainment
tactical learning understanding metacognition learning skills and
strategies 4Km Slide 10 Learning is most effective when: it has a
purpose for the learner there is a goal, end point or target to be
achieved the goal is set, understood, or owned by the learner
herself it is seen as worth investing effort in it is neither too
ambitious to be worth investing effort in, nor so unambitious that
it can be achieved without effort (the zone of proximal
development) WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT LEARNING Slide 11 But also when it
is spontaneous and surprising when it sets off for one goal but
achieves another when it asks critical questions of its own
premises Slide 12 INTELLIGENCE DEFINED Intelligence is knowing what
to do when you dont know what to do (Jean Piaget) Slide 13 What is
learning? What happens when you are learning something? How do you
know when you have learned something? Why do we forget things? How
do we remember things? Can we unlearn? ENTRY POINTS Slide 14 THE 5
W + H WHERE? do I do my best work? WHEN? do I learn best? HOW? do I
learn best? WHO WITH? Who do I like to work with/without? WHAT?
motivates me? WHY? am I doing it anyway? THE 5 W + H Slide 15 on
the phone TV helps me relax when Im doing HW at the dining room
table everyone in living room so I can feel comfortable around
young people. My mum who's clever my mum my favaourite chair my
computer music which helps me my friends my radio my living room
stereo THINGS THAT HELP ME LEARN Slide 16 Slide 17 Do you try to
overcome your weaknesses? Slide 18 When faced difficult schoolwork,
do you tend to give up? Slide 19 THE FORCE FIELD Slide 20 Teacher
knowledge, motivation attitudes, beliefs and values Pupil
knowledge, motivation attitudes, beliefs and values Human capital
Teachers plural knowledge, motivation attitudes, beliefs and values
Social capital Organisational capital Knowledge, motivation,
attitudes, beliefs and values embedded in organisational
intelligence Pupils plural knowledge, motivation attitudes, beliefs
and values Pupils as activists in sustaining and perpetuating
organisational capital KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND TRANSFER Slide 21 8
STEPS TO STANDARDS Emphasise the important Build capacity Involve
stakeholders Watch dont copy Learn from their mistakes Listen to
dissent Transform through conservation Celebrate achievement
