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navigating to excellence throughpersonal support

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Terry AshtonTerry AshtonAdviser (Guidance & Careers)Aberdeen City Council

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Personal Support in Schools: Implementation of Happy Safe and Achieving Their Potential

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National Development Officers(Personal Support in Schools)

Gill ScottGill ScottJohn MacBeanJohn MacBean

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what I’ll speak aboutwhat I’ll speak about• what is the main business of

schools?• what helps the main business

to be successful?• what might hinder the main

business?• everyone’s part in supporting

the main business• how you can help

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what makes a good teacher?

why do good teachers get results?

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starting as a new starting as a new personperson

• kids learn from the start

• learning to speak• not because parents

are linguistic experts

so what most helps them learn?

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QUESTION:

If we taught children to speak like we teach them “subjects”, what would happen?

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QUESTION:

If we taught children to walk like we teach them “subjects”, what would happen?

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starting as a new starting as a new teacherteacher

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starting as a new starting as a new teacherteacherhow is personal support

relevant?

• the way you help people to learn how to learn

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• the way you help people to learn how to learnlearning about

chemistry

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learning to be a chemist

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• “looking out” for young people

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•building relationships

•listening•caring•noticing•building confidence and self-esteem

•challenging positively

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• knowing when and how to seek further help

specialist help

• LS/BS/Guidance/ Pastoral Care

• child protection/loss/ domestic problems etc

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what is themain business of school?

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what is the main business of school?

learning how to learn

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intellectualsocialemotional…………….

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starting as a new starting as a new teacherteacher

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the personal support role of every teacher

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• respect• appreciation• relationships• trust• noticing


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respectrespect

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• capabilities• personal qualities• needs• difficulties

challenge positively


appreciationappreciation

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• listen• take feelings and

ideas seriously• inspiration• cooperation• skills of making and

maintaining relationships


relationshipsrelationships

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• give students some power over their own learning

• let students do things for themselves

• give them real responsibility


trusttrust

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trusttrust

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• noticing how they feel and behave, what they say etc

• responding to it• knowing what to do

with the information


noticingnoticing

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barriers to learningbarriers to learning

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they have had poor experiences of school

why do some youngsters not learn so well?

relationship

problems

bullyinghealth problems

truancyboring lessons

peer pressure

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they have missed a significant part of schooling


can’t catch up

so give upcan’t figure out

what’s going on

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difficult personal circumstances


looked

after

moved home oftenparenting problems

family

circumstances

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particular learning needs and difficulties


not

recognisednot dealt with

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kids don’t learn wellunless we help remove the barriers to learning

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kids don’t learn wellunless we help remove the barriers to learning

•noticing

•specialist help

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you are doing a good job!

so what’s your role?so what’s your role?

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lots of good practice around

how can we use it?how can we share it?


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• speak to SMT• get personal support

into teaching and learning policy

• initiate discussion of personal support in any CfE forum


how can you move things forward in your school?

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• get personal support regularly onto agendas of departmental & other meetings

• invite other teachers to work with you

• tell everyone about our website


how can you move things forward in your school?

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• contact your authority “champion”

• speak at authority meetings and CPD about personal support


how can you move things forward in your authority?

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• ensure you keep mentioning the centrality of personal support to CfE

• try to get people to see the connections between personal support, enterprise, citizenship etc


how can you move things forward in your authority?

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• everyone would see it was central to their role

• teaching would be active and involving

• personal issues would be part of all curricular areas

• kids would have lots of responsibility

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what does it look like?

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• kids who need help would be noticed and would get help

• kids would be helped to take responsibility for reviewing their own progress

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what does it look like?

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what makes a good teacher?

why do good teachers get results?

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websitewebsite

www.ltscotland.org.uk/personalsupportinschools

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download download presentationpresentation

www.aberdeen-education.org.uk/guidance/downloads

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download download presentationpresentation

www.aberdeen-education.org.uk/guidance/downloads

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implementation implementation projectproject

Terry AshtonGill ScottJohn MacBean

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