Achieving consistency and standardising Teaching, Learning and Assessment
In the video below Sally Dicketts CBE talks about how HOW2s HOW2s provide an instant way to achieve consistency and standardise teacher competencies for Teaching Learning and Assessment — particularly useful for a large staff or one spread across a college group or a number of campuses.
• provide transparency of practice across the organisation as managers work to translate SLT strategy to effective instruction.
• were subscribed to in 2014 to help her ensure consistency of quality of teaching across such a large and diverse group
• help teachers meet the challenge of motivating students to succeed; many students have already experienced failure at school — particularly in subjects like English and Maths.
NOTE: Activate now employs far more than the two thousand staff mentioned in the video.
Sally Dicketts is President of the English Association of Colleges and CEO of Activate Learning group of Colleges and The Oxford Partnership (TOP) College Group (Eleven Further Education (Community) Colleges in total).
Based at Oxford City College in Oxfordshire, Activate employs thousands of teachers across England and Saudi Arabia.
(Activate Learning have used HOW2s since 2014)
In the video below, Gordon Duffy McGhie describes the impact HOW2s have made at Middlesbrough College. (Middlesbrough College have used HOW2s since 2017 and resubscribed for 3 more years in 2021)