Using IRIS to ensure sustainable improvements in learning and teaching.

Integrating IRIS Connect into effective staff development.

From The Beginning

• How do we create sustainable improvement in learning and teaching?

• How do we make lesson observations a meaningful and supportive experience that ensures progress as well as judgement?

• How do we personalise training in pedagogical practice?

• How do we share effective practice across the curriculum?

• How do we create a culture of greater reflection and collaboration?

• How do we help staff understand what ‘Outstanding’ looks like?

• How do we support staff who struggle to make changes in their practice?

• How can we develop collaboration with institutions

outside of the Academy?

Building Blocks To Progress

• Personalised feedback prioritised.

• Focus on CPD to support learning and teaching and the sharing of good practice.

• Implement 10/20 peer observations.

• Opportunities for accredited CPD linked to learning projects.

• Development of NQT & +1 programme, including annual conference and NQT residential.

• Paired observations for standardisation of judgement and quality of feedback.

• Greater ownership of lesson observations through ‘The Suite’

• Implementing a coaching scheme

• Training courses specific to the needs of staff (ITP and OTP)

From A Stick To A Carrot Approach

• Observations: developmental v judgmental.

• Investing in staff: wanting to be better, learning how to be better.

• Utilising excellence within our own Academy

• Observations without fear: giving more control over who, what and when.

• Help me: personalised coaching and CPD

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You can capture clear images, move the camera and zoom in to focus on groups, or out to view the whole class.

Comments can be added during live observations or after. You are also able to have dialogues between the observer and observee which can form the basis of feedback discussions.

The comments are time marked on the video so that when clicking on the comment, you are moved to the part of the observation it refers to.

The Power of Informality

• Staff licence: every teacher has full control.

• What about me? Enabling staff to becoming self-evaluating.

• Collaboration: a learning dialogue

• Using forms: providing focus and clarity..

• Seeing is believing: ‘I know what I should do, but what does it look like?’

Utilising IRIS

• All staff have personal log-ins to the system.

• Encouraging peer observation for development: staff have the control.

• All NQTs will use IRIS as part of their induction programme.

• Integral part of personalised coaching

• Building a library of outstanding practice.

• Providing evidence for appraisal

Outstanding Learning

• An open and supportive approach• Observations for learning, not just judging.• ‘I never knew I did that!’ – modify behaviours

through IRIS.• Integrated into induction – caring and sharing.

Create a meaningful dialogue to ensure progress.

• Prevention and intervention: support not sanction.

• Building a library of outstanding practice.

IRIS to develop learning