Staff training - using data as a class teacher and HOD, PPT plus resources

This resource is a training session on the use of data as both a class teacher and head of department, specifically targeted at secondary school teachers. It includes a comprehensive 16 slide PPT, full of interactive questions and short tasks, designed to be used for staff training (small groups works well), and also includes an Excel resource with fabricated data to use in discussion / for some of the activities. It has been written from the perspective of a Head of English at a secondary school and was originally presented to trainee teachers. The session can last between 1-2 hours dependent on how thoroughly the slides are discussed.

The PPT goes through the following:

• pivotal question - why are schools ‘obsessed’ with data?
• what exactly we mean by data in a school context
• brief literature review - what does pedagogical research say?
• data exercise - looking at and discussing the use of different data sets (provided in an excel doc - n.b. utilises sisra style reports, excel sheets, sims data tracking and school headline figures, all fabricated and including no sensitive pupil data)
• round up of discussion - suggestions for how each set of data in the packs might be used by a classroom teacher
• further examples of data
• a short brief on CATs, APS and Scaled scores
• 4 steps on using data as a classroom practitioner
• key questions - why do we need to organise data and how might a class teacher organise theirs? What do you ‘do’ with data? When does it all end?
• the problems with using data

Also includes a bonus PPT for a similar session completed across a MAT, with extra slides on:

• using data as a primary phase lead
• using data as a secondary HOD
• key data uses across school