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report 1: The Learning Engineers!
BRIDGING VALUES AND LEARNING
The ViTaL Development & Research Programme
Report No. 1
How the language, concepts, principles and practice of learning power can improve consistency and coherence across a network of six city primary schools, with a collective focus on developing the values, attitudes, contributions and achievements of effective, motivated, lifelong learners and citizens, in line with the five outcomes of Every Child Matters.
This is the Report of an ELLI Research and Development Project involving Six Schools in the Primary Phase in Bristol between October 2005 and September 2006.
- Stoke Bishop CofE Primary - Headteacher: Philippa Hepworth
- Westbury Park Primary - Headteacher: Alan Rees
- Victoria Park Junior School - Headteacher: John Searle
- Victoria Park Infant School – Headteacher: Jenny Holt
- The School of Christ the King – Headteacher: Anne Peachey
- Christ Church CE VC Primary – Headteacher: Tony Tween
1. Introduction
The six schools involved in this project had formed a networked learning community with a driving focus on “Creating a Learning Curriculum”, aiming to inspire learning and raise achievement. In most other ways, they were diverse, three in the North of the city, three in the South, serving very different social and economic areas, some with substantial experience of working with Learning Power ideas, others with none. They were committed from the start to disseminating their findings through networking with other schools, Education Action Zones and other available channels.
In line with research into learner-centred cultures, the project was devised to research into three key elements of practice and provision:
- the learner: individual attitudes, values, dispositions, beliefs, achievement
- the teacher: impact on professional development, attitudes, values and practices
- similarities and differences across and between schools in their approaches to school
- improvement and self-evaluation and in their pupils’ value-added scores.
ViTaL Partnerships was engaged to design and manage an action-enquiry project, using the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI), its concepts, assessments and strategies, to explore its impact on and capacity to illuminate these three elements, involving the Year 1 and Year 5 teachers and the Headteachers of all six schools as co-researchers and their children as partners in and subjects of the enquiry.
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