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The Good Practice Database

Notes for Guidance

This database of good practice represents authentic activity by teachers from all over the UK. Your contribution is welcome, but to ensure both quality and usefulness there are a few notes for guidance.
Please read them below...

To make your own entry in the database of good practice you will need the following:

You will need to keep a record of what you did, and what the outcomes were, over a period of at least one term. You will need to offer the start and finish dates of this observation period.

Why do you think that what you did actually was good practice? What outcomes did you observe? You will need to offer these but they do not need to be exclusively quantitative. A diary / log can be a powerful record of progress, for example.

Your Good Practice relates to which Key Stage/s? Pick one, or more (or all...)

This is action research. Care in collecting your observations will add to the value of your contribution.

Your entry in the database of good practice will carry two explanations:

Firstly, a brief summary. Colleagues (or parents or students) searching the database will find this summary first before deciding to move on to examine to the full entry.

That full entry will contain the detailed report. Prepare this off-line first because readability is important. There is always a trade of between readability and detail, but detail is important to others seeking to follow your good example.

Of course, all this would be useless if the Good Practice you describe only works for you! Because of that we are asking you to give the name of someone else (and they could be a colleague) who has tried it too (successfully!).

It is likely that someone will contact this person for verification that the Good Practice worked for them too.

Which brings us to verification. You will need to have your work verified by some external (ie not your colleagues) person or persons of course. They could be from a university or local school governors, perhaps local advisors and inspectors. They could be parents, even students perhaps (but not from your own school).

Your best strategy is to involve them throughout the observation period but other solutions would work too.

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	This database of good practice represents authentic activity by teachers from all over the UK. Your contribution is welcome, but to ensure both quality and usefulness there are a few notes for guidance. Please read them below...
	To make your own entry in the database of good practice you will need the following: You will need to keep a record of what you did, and what the outcomes were, over a period of at least one term. You will need to offer the start and finish dates of this observation period. Why do you think that what you did actually was good practice? What outcomes did you observe? You will need to offer these but they do not need to be exclusively quantitative. A diary / log can be a powerful record of progress, for example. Your Good Practice relates to which Key Stage/s? Pick one, or more (or all...) This is action research. Care in collecting your observations will add to the value of your contribution.
	Your entry in the database of good practice will carry two explanations: Firstly, a brief summary. Colleagues (or parents or students) searching the database will find this summary first before deciding to move on to examine to the full entry. That full entry will contain the detailed report. Prepare this off-line first because readability is important. There is always a trade of between readability and detail, but detail is important to others seeking to follow your good example.
	Of course, all this would be useless if the Good Practice you describe only works for you! Because of that we are asking you to give the name of someone else (and they could be a colleague) who has tried it too (successfully!). It is likely that someone will contact this person for verification that the Good Practice worked for them too.
	Which brings us to verification. You will need to have your work verified by some external (ie not your colleagues) person or persons of course. They could be from a university or local school governors, perhaps local advisors and inspectors. They could be parents, even students perhaps (but not from your own school). Your best strategy is to involve them throughout the observation period but other solutions would work too.