A teacher at our school recently won a national award. Miss Reid was given the Business Leader of Tomorrow award to recognise her work in our school. I travelled down to London with her and watched while all of the work that we have done in the school recognised as Graham Spittle gives her the award.
She was nominated by Mr Richard Parker Smith for her leadership skills.
"We have been involved in the KTP Project and think that Miss Reid truly deserved the award for her hard work and determination. Miss Reid is a fantastic Project Leader - she gives each individual a lot of support as well as doing all of the work necessary for the change in Teaching and Learning."
KTP stands for Knowledge Transfer Partnership. It's an organisation that usually puts further education places with businesses that have a part which isn't working properly. However, in this case, it's in a school and we are aiming to change the way of teaching and learning for the benefit of everyone within the school.
We interviewed Miss Reid to find out more about KTP and her award. Click below to watch the video.
We also interviewed 2 teachers that are involved in the KTP Project:
Interview with Miss Bonner
From a personal perspective, I think that the school has changed quite a lot. There's a lot of enquiry-based learning in lessons. It's making the pupils much more independent so they can be successful learners. Not only at school, but afterwards too. It's not only improved my teaching but also the learning of the pupils that I teach.
Interview with Mr Welsh
I think the KTP Project is extremely valuable because it gives students to opportunity to develop skills they will need to use in later life. Lessons concentrate on not only the topics that they need to learn but also the skills and attributes that they will need throughout their life. It has had a great impact on student researchers as it allows them to become far more independent learners. Now, you can give a student a topic title and then they will go off and find out more than they needed to know in the first place. My lessons have changed drastically. I can now give the student the opportunity to take responsibility for their own learning. My involvement in the KTP has shown me that it's good to give students the responsibility and let them find knowledge for themselves.