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School
Effectiveness is at the heart of current educational thinking:
raising expectations, promoting a climate of success and enabling the reaching
of high personal and academic standards for all pupils. |
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The
Dorset School Effectiveness Service leads schools in this area:
Combining encouragement with urgency and clarity about standards with advice
about how to raise them. |
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School Effectiveness Service is responsible for implementing and developing
Dorset's Education Development Plan. |
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button to go to the SES Website. |
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The
Dorset Schools Effectiveness service:
- Aims to encourage all schools to improve themselves.
- Enhances schools ability to do so through offering the following
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Provision of planned and effective professional development - restoring
teachers professionalism, competence and confidence. |
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Special Needs support - working in conjunction with Pupil and Parent support
services to ensure that special schools are seen as part of the family of
schools and that high quality special need support is available in all Dorset
Schools. |
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Personnel support - helping Dorset schools to recruit and retain good people. |
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Curriculum support - creating the links and support networks, which enable
Dorset, schools to raise standards for all across the curriculum. |
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| - Financial
and management support - allowing schools to provide Best Value. |
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| - Analysis
and interpretation of performance data - allowing the LEA to monitor the
performance of its schools and allowing schools to track and support pupils
progress. |
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| - Ensuring
that no Dorset school goes into special measures through established procedures
both of support and when necessary, intervention. |
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| - Supporting
all aspects of early years learning through the Early Years network. |
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| Author's
perspective for full range of texts see reference |
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Schools
Effectiveness is further supported through the provision of a diverse range
of support for learning, including:
- Out of school learning
- Educational Technology
- The SES Centre and Virtual Learning Centre |
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School
Effectiveness is both the right and the responsibility of all Dorset schools…
'Equality isn't a side-show, a distraction in the quest for sustainability:
it's simply the best way there.'
R.Douthwaite, New Internationalist No. 37, Nov 1998 p26
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