Celebrate Positive Outcomes to Motivate Improvement

Celebrate Positive Outcomes to Motivate Improvement

Accurate and timely data allows the teaching team to identify when standards are met.

It also impacts school wide as the school leadership review the classroom data so can see what successes classrooms are having and work out how to replicate that across their classrooms.

They can also then support individual teachers or teaching assistants where the data is showing standards are not being met.

An improvement is a student outcome or teaching practice that is delivered to the standard which means it will have a positive impact on student learning. When a teacher demonstrates best practice, then this improvement is evident in the lift in students’ results.

Identification of student gains are important to sustain and replicate improvement. Recognising success is a powerful motivator to the student, teacher and school leadership and engages parents in their child’s learning.

It validates that hard work pays off and students can continue to learn and develop. It can also give the school team evidence of what practices lead to results and how school leaders can replicate that in other classrooms when they embed the practice school-wide.

When a teacher and students achieve or surpass the standard in a single week, they celebrate in their classrooms and are celebrated across the school.

This creates a buoyant positive culture across the school that remains high as success drives greater success as the whole school team becomes motivated to be continuously learning. Continuous improvement is not a hard slog but a positive practice that the whole school team is positively engaged in.