AST’s In HistoryAST’s In History2006-08

Andrew Withey – Plymstock School

awithey@plymstockschool.org.uk

Advanced Skills TeachersAdvanced Skills Teachers

• Producing high quality teaching resources• Disseminating materials relating to best practice &

educational research• Providing model lessons to a whole class or target group• Supporting subject leaders with regards to SOW’s,

policies or management skills• Helping teachers experiencing difficulties• Participating in the induction and mentoring of NQT’s• Leading professional learning groups• Supporting professional development

Producing high quality teaching Producing high quality teaching resourcesresources

• Developing a wealth of high quality lessons materials, resources and lesson plans

• Collating the best practice across the city and acknowledging individuals contributions

• City wide KS3 Assessment for planned for 2007-08•

Developing a wealth of high quality lessons materials, resources and

lesson plans

The Bombing of HiroshimaThe Murder of Thomas a Beckett

The Roman Invasion of Britain

The Roman Republic

Collating the best practice across the city and acknowledging

individuals contributions

City wide KS3 Assessment for planned for 2007-08• Interpretation assessment: Was

General Douglas Haig butcher of the Somme?

• Aim to encourage all secondary schools to complete this assessment.

• Moderation of students work on this assessment.

• Developing common assessment criteria for KS3.

• Incorporating AfL strategies into assessments and marking schemes.

Disseminating materials relating to best Disseminating materials relating to best practice & educational researchpractice & educational research

• Developing Social, Emotional & Behavioural Skills (DSEBs) now SEAL – Disseminating policy information and exemplar material new strategies with practical applications

• Links with PGFL – disseminating the work of the SWGfL, PGfL to colleagues in schools • Creating the HistoryNetwork webpage to communicate best practice and raise the profile

of History teaching in Plymouth • Working with Plymouth City Museum on their forthcoming bi-centennial exhibition of the

abolition of slavery• Working with English Heritage• Sharing our practice with Exeter St Lukes PCGE Students• Working with The Prince of Wales Summer School

Projects Undertaken

• Plymouth Departmental Directory• Video to DVD Project• E-book Project• Revision Mp3 Project• KS3 Assessment • KS4 Assessment• Veterans Day• Oral History Project• You Tube Channel• Coordinating the Devon History Network• KS5 Mapping• KS3 Re-Modelling• Plymouth History Community

Providing model lessons to a whole Providing model lessons to a whole class or target groupclass or target group

• Screen shots of lessons

Supporting subject leaders with regards Supporting subject leaders with regards to SOW’s, policies or management to SOW’s, policies or management

skillsskills• Ridgeway School – Creating a new post WWII Scheme

of Work:

‘Thank you both for all your input and ideas yesterday - both Martin and I thought it was a really productive day.

Thanks for all the resources’

• Coombe Dean School – Developing resources for the effective implementation and monitoring of Assessment for Learning

• LA Wide - Digital Network Curriculum Raising Achievement through Intervention

Helping teachers experiencing Helping teachers experiencing difficultiesdifficulties

• Plymstock School and PHSG liaising to develop and implement a new A2 Unit

‘Liaising with a colleague with experience in teaching this unit was a relief and a huge help. I was given a proven route through a difficult course and was able to share my own new ideas with others. A really productive relationship has been established’

M.West Plymstock

• Supporting a student at Parkside School with GCSE studies

‘Miss Tomalin was a fantastic help’

Tom

• ICT Training on the implementation of Smart Boards:

‘Thank you for letter regarding ICT/Data Projector Training.  My colleagues and I would really like to have some training’

N.Cliff Devonport Girls

Participating in the induction and mentoring Participating in the induction and mentoring of NQT’sof NQT’s and PGCE studentsand PGCE students

• Involved in induction programme for NQT’s

• Delivering induction material to NQT’s: Assessment for Learning; ICT within the curriculum; Assessment and Target Setting

• Delivering seminar for Exeter University ITT programme

Leading professional learning groupsLeading professional learning groups

Half termly meetings have been organised inviting all

schools across the LA to attend

‘I found the meeting exceptionally useful - D.Riggs DHSB’

‘Good idea to share inspirational teaching - I have always thought these make the best courses’

‘Very useful - a practical way of sharing good practice, which has the potential to snowball. It's also good to have

AST's initiating contact’ - D Bartlett Saltash C.C.

‘Wonderful ideas! An excellent beginning to what promises to be a particularly useful group’

‘It is really great to take away something that can be practically used in the classroom’

Plymouth History Network

•Supporting professional development

www.historynetwork.co.uk

Plymouth History Network

•Supporting professional development

www.youtube.com/user/Plymhistnet