The 6 sessions in Understanding Data focus on the skills needed by different members of the education community, enabling all staff and stakeholders to understand and practice the key uses of data.

• Monitor pupil progress and spot underperformance
• Set challenging targets with clear aims
• Create interventions to accelerate progression
• Present data to colleagues, governors, parents and Ofsted

Session Breakdown

Training Session 1 - Understanding Effective Data Analysis as a Senior Manager or Senior Leader

Learning Outcomes:

• Evaluate external and internal sources of data for credibility and relevance
• Monitor the quality of internal data used to track performance
• Create appropriate whole-school targets
• Analyse pupil progress data
• Present to governors, department leaders and teachers on the process of using data to improve performance

Training Session 2 - Understanding Data as a Governor

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the data currently collected and analysed by the school
• Explain how targets are set and monitored at the whole-school and individual pupil level
• Use a framework for asking challenging questions during monitoring and intervention planning

Training Session 3 - Understanding Data as a Lead Teacher or Head of Department: Target Setting

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the target-setting process for pupils
• Consider the most appropriate data sources for estimating pupil achievements
• Create reasonable predictions and challenging targets for pupils
• Hypothesise potential issues with creating challenging targets
• Create solutions for resolving issues with challenging targets

Training Session 4 - Understanding Data as a Lead Teacher or Head of Department: Monitoring Progress

Learning Outcomes:

• Monitor pupil progress towards challenging targets
• Use a framework for asking challenging questions about the reliability and accuracy of progress data
• Analyse progress data to identify pupils not progressing as expected
• Identify potential reasons for pupils not progressing as expected
• Create interventions to enable pupils to progress as expected

Training Session 5 - Understanding Data: Whole Staff Training

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the difference between an estimate, prediction and target grade
• Follow a process for setting realistically challenging targets
• Analyse progress data to find pupils posing a potential or immediate concern
• Analyse possible reasons for lack of expected pupil progress towards targets
• Create interventions to aid pupils in achieving their expected progress

Training Session 6 - Communicating Data to Parents: Form Tutor Training

Learning Outcomes:

• Talk with parents about their child’s progress
• Plan ways to communicate about data and its uses for parents
• Set targets to improve academic progress