Improving language, leadership, tolerance and lear..
Improving language, leadership, tolerance and learning behaviour with Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
At St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Dudley we aim to improve the quality of teaching, learning, leadership and our multicultural and European ethos by working on a professional development project with our partner school, SP118 in Wroclaw, Poland.St Joseph's has a high number of young learners with English as a foreign language and we will learn from the expertise in teaching English at SP118 in order to improve our provision for these learners. We will acquire this new expertise through work shadowing and face to face interaction and coaching from expert teachers from the English department at SP118.St Joseph's is located in an area of high socio-economic deprivation and many of our children have social and emotional needs. We will learn from the excellent pastoral care at SP118 and improve our provision so that we can help children to be ready to learn. This new expertise will again be acquired through work shadowing and face to face coaching and discussion.We serve a very ethnically and culturally diverse community and as such need to constantly ensure we provide the best possible multicultural education. SP118 is a centre of excellence for teaching about diversity and we hope to learn from the good practice in the school and adapt it to our own setting. We also will use the European partnership to help our staff and pupils learn about their own European citizenship and raise their aspirations of what they can achieve as citizens of Europe.We will improve our leadership capacity even more by learning from the innovative, successful research-driven leadership systems at SP118 that result in excellent educational outcomes. We will acquire this knowledge through work shadowing, discussion and coaching.Six staff will participate directly in the mobility activity but all 34 front line teaching and support staff will benefit directly from the dissemination of the project. This will have a significant impact on all 260 learners in our school each year.We expect that within one year we will see improved educational outcomes for children with English as a foreign language, improved behaviour and educational outcomes for children with social and emotional difficulties and improved overall provision in the school as a result of innovative leadership practices. Longer term we expect that educational outcomes for all learners will either be sustained at current high levels or will improve even more - with EFL learners making exceptional improvement.
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