As SGS we agreed to trial the feedback method suggested by Jon Blackbourne for Y11 parents evening with a roll out to other year groups if successful. Our SIMs controller adapted a periodic grade sheet for the purpose.
The form will include summative grade data, the formative comments from the profile (school report) and space for parents to make notes.
Issues that concerned colleagues included the extra time it would take to fill in the profiles where previously colleagues had only one space to fill in previously, now they have two. Secondly, colleagues felt that splitting comments between summative and formative was in some way artificial.
We overcome both these by allowing teachers to chose whether to make a comment, or not. A market solution?
We still need to ask parents whether they found the measures useful. I intend to use a senior student, to conduct a questionnaire for the purpose but need to develop the questions. Suggestions would be appreciated!!
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Monday, 17 January 2011
Thursday, 2 December 2010
DISCUSSION POINT TWO - Developing The Quality of Feedback
DEVELOPING THE QUALITY OF FEEDBACK
PARENTS EVENING
One of the biggest issues identified with parents evenings is that parents only get verbal feedback, much of which they are (as anyone would be) likely to forget. They need a written document that can be followed to support their child.
One way to engage parents with formative feedback is to provide them with a pro forma, listing grades and indicting development point(s) that would help their child improve their performance in the subject.
Suggestions to further promote the impact of this “set piece” event included selecting examples of the students work, or even demonstrating the lack of it to parents.
I have reviewed the TES and such forms seem to be used widely at KS2, with plenty of examples available.
One example to include Secondary Schools, came from Kent LEA. It seems systematic, page 7 & 8 of the PDF linked below has ideas on a suitable forms and examples of how it could be used.
http://www.st-josephs-broadstairs.kent.sch.uk/school%20documents/Making%20the%20most%20of%20parents%27%20evenings.pdf
The form we envisgaed, at least the way I interpreted it, looks something like the one below. I will try to get this sort of thing used at SGS for the Y11 consultation evening, in January.
I have reviewed the TES and such forms seem to be used widely at KS2, with plenty of examples available.
One example to include Secondary Schools, came from Kent LEA. It seems systematic, page 7 & 8 of the PDF linked below has ideas on a suitable forms and examples of how it could be used.
http://www.st-josephs-broadstairs.kent.sch.uk/school%20documents/Making%20the%20most%20of%20parents%27%20evenings.pdf
The form we envisgaed, at least the way I interpreted it, looks something like the one below. I will try to get this sort of thing used at SGS for the Y11 consultation evening, in January.
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