Data for leadership: Lagos

A focus on school improvement; teacher understanding and stakeholder engagement with GL Education and COBIS

This seminar is designed to support school leaders in the effective use of assessment data.

The presentations will be supported by practical exercises and guided hands-on analysis of your own school’s data to ensure that key learning points are reinforced. (Schools that are not yet testing with CAT4 can request a trial of CAT4 for one class or be supplied with sample data for the exercises).

The session will be led by our consultant for Africa, Veer Shah, who will draw on his own experience using these assessments in international schools to illustrate key points including:

• Implementing cognitive abilities testing
• Effective analysis of the data to identify the learning needs of individuals and groups of students
• Using data to support accreditations and inspections
• Stakeholder engagement

Linda Potticary, Principal at the British International School Lagos, will explain why her school chose the COBIS Patron’s Accreditation and how assessing the quality of learning in lessons is an integral part of accreditation processes.

Programme:

09:00 - Arrival and registration

09:30 – Introduction

09:45 – CAT4 overview

Understanding cognitive abilities testing

The importance of spatial reasoning

Impact in the classroom

10:45 – break

11:15 – CAT4 data activities

Guided analysis of school’s own data or sample data

13:15 – lunch

14:15 – Building an action plan for CAT4

14:45 – The whole student approach – integrating other data

15:15 – The COBIS Patron’s Accreditation

The importance of external accreditation and how data can inform the validation process

16:00 – Summary

16:15 – Coffee and networking

17:00 - Close