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1. Grampian Primary School Research Project
2. Aims of the Project We are endeavouring to build an 'ASK' Curriculum (Attitudes - Skills - Knowledge), with our highest values and best learning efforts focused on key attitudes and learning dispositions. Connect with highly effective people across a wide range of disciplines and life experiences to identify dispositions behind exceptional achievement and translate them into a planned, incremental, attitudinal, curriculum framework couched in child-friendly terms; Develop a pedagogy for teaching, assessing and nurturing these attitudes within ourlearningmodel based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.
3. Key Outcomes Identification of a set of key attitudes / dispositions behind exceptional achievement. A framework of detailed, child-friendly, progressive (Nursery to Year 6) attitudinal objectives based upon our 6 ‘Rocks’ in a form that we could assess against. A secure teaching methodology to nurture these attitudes through the use of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy.
4. Early stages Grampian Research and Development team recruited Applications for the team were invited from pupils following work on the attitudes and skills that would be required from members of such a team. Following a selection process the team members were appointed. Specific roles and responsibilities were discussed, negotiated and agreed with the team. The team followed this up by defining the criteria of ‘achievement’. It was agreed that candidates for interview should have recognisably excelled at the highest levels in their field or in terms of life experience. Work then began on drawing up our ‘wish-list’ of high profile, ‘high-achievers’ against the agreed criteria and on devising a strategy for making contact with potential interviewees. Letters of introduction and invitation were drafted and refined whilst the team began researching potential candidates and finding contact details.
5. Interviewee Details Howard Ebison – Apprentice candidate/Local business man. Donna Kellogg MBE – England badminton player/Sports Brian Treguna – Derbyshire Chief Fire Officer /Public service Richard Reid – National Role Model Programme Lord Professor Robert Winston – Science/Technology Cliff Lewer – Former Managing Director , Alida Holdings (largest UK plastic bag manufacturer)/Business Andrew Lewer – Derbyshire County Council Leader/Politics
6. Donna Kellogg MBE Richard Reid
7. Brian Treguna Lord Professor Robert Winston
8. Outcome of interviews Identification of key dispositions which were evident throughout interviews. Ambitious Initiative Open minded Critical Reflective Driven Resourceful Respectful Constructive Empathetic Confident Decisive Aspiring Creative Resilient Brave Ardent Inquisitive These were then mapped against our existing ‘rocks’ to form a framework to assess against.
9. Our Rocks Ambitious Aim High Driven Aspiring
10. Our Rocks Inquisitive Dare to be different Brave Creative
11. Our Rocks Initiative Thinking for myself Resourceful Decisive
12. Our Rocks Ardent I can do it Resilient Confident
13. Our Rocks Open minded More than just me Respectful Empathetic
14. Our Rocks Critical How well did we do Reflective Constructive
15. Attitude Framework Initially focused on key messages from the interviews linking these into the rocks. Wanted to create progression from Nursery into Year 6 to build upon these attitudes each year and put these at the centre of our curriculum. Research team encouraged to be involved in writing these statements using what they had learnt from the interviews.
16. Aim High – Driven
17. Dare to be Different - Inquisitive
18. I Can Do It – Ardent
19. The Grampian Way Interactive teaching and learning policy that gathers together the best examples of constructivist approach to learning for staff to share and learn from. Follows 4 key principles - Readiness for learning - Attitudes to learning ‘6 rocks’ - Problem based learning - Scaffolding learning through Blooms Revised Taxonomy
20. Examples of Our Practice Foundation – Looking at and creating cars. The children in the first part of the session had to focus on the remembering and understanding stage of blooms by looking at the three different types of car and investigating how they were different and where similar parts were. The second stage of the problem set to the children required them to work creatively to construct a car from various materials and by doing this they were analysing and evaluating their progress and creating throughout the activity. At this age level the blooms work flow seems even more mixed and joined together and all the stages of blooms in this activity were cycled throughout.
21. Year 4 – Egypt News Report The children found the Egyptian scroll and brought it back to class and we photographed it and enlarged the image on the whiteboard for the children to look at. As a group we agreed that the symbols looked Egyptian and we decided to use a decoder sheet from an Egyptian stamp book that we had in class to work out what the sheet said. After this message was decoded the class decided to make a documentary style video about Egypt over the next 3 weeks.
22. Next Steps Fully embed the new framework of attitude objectives in our curriculum from Sept 2010. Consider the development of a parallel framework for out of school activities (school and home led), including outdoor and adventurous activities, sports, field work, team building, problem solving activities, children’s own interests and hobbies. Disseminate project outcomes to Derby City schools through Heads’ briefing meetings and AST network.