Steyning Grammar SchoolA day and boarding school

www.sgs.uk.net

The Black Box inside

The Black BoxUsing technology to accelerate

and improve assessment for learning

Sachin ChoithramaniLearning Leader for Digital Technologies

Nick WerganHead Teacher

Learning should be at the core of everything we do.

Including Technology.

ProfessorDylan Wiliam

Assessment for Learning

Students learn because teaching activitiesengage studentsIn a feedback loop

ACTION & ADJUSTMENT

ASSESSMENT

FEEDBACK & ANALYSIS

DEVELOPMENT

THE LEARNING FEEDBACK LOOP

The Black BoxInsideThe Black Box

The aim was to:

1. increase the speed of feedback loops

2. improve the efficiency of feedback loops

3. secure student engagement

4. reimagine the types of learning activity that were possible

BUT….

5. without increasing teacher workload!

Our environment

1. Windows desktops

2. Bring Your Own Device

3. Staff iPads

4. Faculty Chromebooks

Here are some of the things

we did...

Health & Social Care→ Portfolios to Docs & Classroom

Organisation

Core PE→Question tool in Classroom for starters, hinge point questions, plenaries and exit tickets.

Micro Assess AllSpeed

Analysis

Core PE→ Extension Activities

Action and Adjustment

Spanish→ Comment Tool → Electronic feedback

Organisation

English→ back channels and green pen

EvidencingAction & Adjustment

In Maths→ blended approach. Upload Photos → Classroom → Electronic feedback

Topics

OrganisationEvidencing

Computing→ coordination of shared classes

Workload Reduction

In Food & Nutrition we were able to integrate electronic textbook materials into Google Classroom making resources available to students at home.

WorkloadReduction

Drama→workshop learning summary

Student Ownership of Feedback & AnalysisTeacher WorkloadReduction

Drama→ Extended projects → students set lesson objectives and review outcomes

AccelerationStudent

Ownership of Feedback Loop

Business Studies & DramaInternal exams scanned → Students self mark.

Reduction in Teacher Workload

Student Ownership of Feedback Loop

Then we began to

REIMAGINElearning activities to do the

previously impossible.

Computing→ bespoke revision websites

Personalisation of Development ActivitiesStudent Ownership

English → traffic lighting own response → peer experts

Improved access to feedback & analysis Student Ownership

Drama→ YouTube video → electronic annotation

Student EngagementAccessibility of

FeedbackEnables Self-Assessment

Engineering→ customised project tracking sheets

Continuous feedback and back channels

Art→ video feedback

Student Engagement

Workload ReductionQuality & Quantity

of Feedback

Photography & Maths→flipped learning videos

Quality of Development

Activity

Drama, English & History→ Draftback Videos and Revision Histories

Student accountability to engage

To improve the student feedback loop you

have to improve the teacher feedback loop.

ACTION & ADJUSTMENT

ASSESSMENT

FEEDBACK & ANALYSIS

DEVELOPMENT

THE LEARNING FEEDBACK LOOP

If you want to improve learning you have to

personaliseTeachers’ Professional

Development

Blog of ideas →share innovations across faculties.

Personalised Development

Faculty Google Classroom →●try out ideas●share resources●reuse posts

Reduce Teacher WorkloadImproved Development

Activities

Improved Staff Digital Literacy

= Improved

Communication

Requests for absence→Online

IT Room Bookings→Google Sheet

Year 7 Team → Tutor Time Messages→ Daily notices

Staff Appraisal, Faculty Development Plans andFaculty Evaluations→Google Classroom

Subject Options→ Google Form

Internal Orders → Google Drive & Sheets

Parents’ Evening Bookings →Google Classroom

If you reduce teacher workload you increase the time available for high quality teaching

and learning.

If you reduce school costs using technology you

you increase the resources available for teaching and learning.

Including the technology.

Used intelligently, technology enables us to:

1. increase the speed of feedback loops

2. improve the efficiency of feedback loops

3. secure student engagement

4. reimagine the types of learning activity that were possible

AND… 5. reduce teacher workload

AND… 6. Improve teacher professional development

The most important thing:●Ensure the implementation of technology is driven

by your pedagogical aims.

If you do nothing else:●Share this video with your colleagues. You will find

at least one idea you can try out tomorrow. https://goo.gl/KghjgM

Sachin Choithramani, Learning Leader for Digital TechnologiesSteyning Grammar School

www.sgs.uk.net schoit@sgs.uk.net @sgs_digital

For more information contactSachin Choithramani, Steyning Grammar School

Learning Leader for Digital Technologiesschoit@sgs.uk.net @sgs_digital