Would be great if we could do this, our Vic DOE has listed 3 aims of schooling - Achievement, Engagement and Wellbeing. My school was sort of alternative and focused more on Engagement &Wellbeing & we attracted many students from neighboring schools where the focus was myopically on Achievement. However, regional managers put pressure on us to change our focus to Achievement. In those reviews it was apparent only certain measures of achievement mattered i.e., Y12 & wellbeing/engagement did not matter. In addition, going through all the surveys on engagement/wellbeing I realized we need some way to robustly measure these. The overall Student Survey does not capture accurately, in our case DOE Student survey was not gr8 (less than 50% student completed it too) whereas the PIVOT survey's focusing on the specific teacher for a specific class were outstanding (95% students completed) - guess which survey the regional boffins used? There maybe some hope with Jason Clare - https://www.miragenews.com/half-billion-dollar-investment-into-student-939644/
Thanks as always for sharing George. It is a shame how limited our perspectives of achievement can be in the schooling system at times. But the system does as you say edges toward this and it can be tough to challenge dominant thinking with an alternative vision. Would you mind linking me to the DET where it talks about these aims? Just did a brief search and finding it hard to find anything on it!
Looks like they have a slightly modified version called FISO 2.0 with Learning and Well-being now at the center of schooling with engagement down one level to be a secondary aim -
Thanks Tom, yes this is hard to find, but interesting we are constantly promoted the DODGY 10HITs, but you'd think there be more promotion of our fundamental aims. The aims are in the Frameworks for Improving Student Outcomes -FISO - the centre of their target student outcomes, in top left hand corner, are Achievement, Engagement and Well being. There used to be narrative for that that i'm trying to find again, anyway here's the FISO overview - https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/teachingresources/practice/VTLM%20Annotated%20A3%2012June.pdf
Would be great if we could do this, our Vic DOE has listed 3 aims of schooling - Achievement, Engagement and Wellbeing. My school was sort of alternative and focused more on Engagement &Wellbeing & we attracted many students from neighboring schools where the focus was myopically on Achievement. However, regional managers put pressure on us to change our focus to Achievement. In those reviews it was apparent only certain measures of achievement mattered i.e., Y12 & wellbeing/engagement did not matter. In addition, going through all the surveys on engagement/wellbeing I realized we need some way to robustly measure these. The overall Student Survey does not capture accurately, in our case DOE Student survey was not gr8 (less than 50% student completed it too) whereas the PIVOT survey's focusing on the specific teacher for a specific class were outstanding (95% students completed) - guess which survey the regional boffins used? There maybe some hope with Jason Clare - https://www.miragenews.com/half-billion-dollar-investment-into-student-939644/
Thanks as always for sharing George. It is a shame how limited our perspectives of achievement can be in the schooling system at times. But the system does as you say edges toward this and it can be tough to challenge dominant thinking with an alternative vision. Would you mind linking me to the DET where it talks about these aims? Just did a brief search and finding it hard to find anything on it!
Looks like they have a slightly modified version called FISO 2.0 with Learning and Well-being now at the center of schooling with engagement down one level to be a secondary aim -
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/PAL/fiso-2.0-plan-for-school-improvement.pdf
Hi George, thanks for sending that through! Interesting change there...Looking forward to looking into this document a little more :)
yes achievement to learning is what stuck out to me
Thanks Tom, yes this is hard to find, but interesting we are constantly promoted the DODGY 10HITs, but you'd think there be more promotion of our fundamental aims. The aims are in the Frameworks for Improving Student Outcomes -FISO - the centre of their target student outcomes, in top left hand corner, are Achievement, Engagement and Well being. There used to be narrative for that that i'm trying to find again, anyway here's the FISO overview - https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/teachingresources/practice/VTLM%20Annotated%20A3%2012June.pdf