Teachers learning about the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) reports in a quality learning circle
 

APPENDICES


APPENDIX A:    QLC interviews Feb-March 1999
This research has a general theme of professional development and a more specific context with the NEMP reports on the assessment tasks used in national monitoring.

NEMP
1 How familiar are you with the NEMP tasks and reports now?
2

Tell me about any NEMP ideas/tasks you have tried or adapted in your classroom (attitude surveys, marking criteria, etc.)
3 Have you hear about ways in which other teachers have used the NEMP material?
4 Has your staff development programme included any focus on NEMP? If so, tell me about it.
School Staff Development  
5 What are the best features of your school’s staff development programme?
6 What would you like to see improved/changed about the staff development programme?
7 Tell me about any frustrations you have about staff development.
8 What do you think are the components of an ideal staff development programme (support, feedback, reflection)?
9 How have you dealt with managing all the curriculum change on a personal level?
10 How do you personally keep up to date with teaching techniques or content in your teaching programme?
11

What have you learnt about managing changes in schools?
12 Have you any suggestions about how to get whole schools using or even reading the NEMP reports?
13 Do you have any ideas for getting individual teachers using the NEMP ideas?
14 Do you have any ideas for helping principals use the NEMP material?
15 What is your particular curriculum strength? How do you currently assess in that area and its related essential skills areas?
16 What would you hope to get out of this project?


APPENDIX B:    QLC interviews June 1999
Report Familiarity and School Visits
1 How have the QLC meetings helped you become more familiar with the NEMP reports?
2 What have you discovered so far about your own personal development needs through the QLC?
3 How has the QLC experience differed from your previous experiences of professional development?
4 In what ways are you personally making use of the NEMP reports?
5 Tell me about any sharing of your NEMP learning with other teachers?
6 What would help you to make even better use of the NEMP reports for your teaching and classroom assessment?
7 What have been the benefits of the school visits?
8 How did you use the school visit time?
9 What would you like to do with the next school visit?
10 Any suggestions for the QLC sessions/school visits?


APPENDIX C:    QLC interviews Oct-Nov 1999
Disseminating NEMP at own School 
1 Tell me about any recent sharing of the NEMP reports you have done with teachers at this school?
2 What has worked well when you have disseminated the NEMP reports?
3 What have been some of the barriers to your dissemination of NEMP at the school?
Principal’s Role in Staff Development
4 What part does your principal play in staff development for teachers at this school? (Tease out involvement at three levels – whole staff, syndicate, individual in aspects of managing, planning and involvement)
5 How important is the principal’s role in the staff development programme?
6 How does the principal know what the needs for staff development are?
7 Who contributes to the shaping of the staff development programme each year?
Extension of the QLC Model at your School
8 With your continued access to the NEMP resources next year, how might you work with other teachers to disseminate the NEMP reports and assessment practices?
9 How might you modify the QLC model for working with teachers at your school?
10 Do you see ways that classroom visits could be included in your model?
11 Do you consider that the QLC model is a viable professional development model for your school, and its ways of working? State why/why not?

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