the staff are delivering both. There are also a host of Vocational Staff who are looking for natural opportunities to develop maths to GCSE standard which is a recommendation from Ofsted and has certainly been highlighted in Ofsted Reports as good practice (Writtle College).
Contributory Success Factors;
Attendance: Students vote with their feet if they do not value or see the worth of the resit sessions. Colleges who tackle the issue of non-attendance with students certainly appear to have better results than those who do not take a strategic approach to dealing with it head on. Introducing a significant amount of Growth Mindset work certainly has an impact upon attendance as does timetabling. From September there are a number of colleges who have timetabled the English/maths work first and everything else around it.
Behaviour/Motivation: Growth Mindset work appears to have a significant amount of impact on students’ behaviour and motivation. Whilst instances of extremely poor behaviour are rare within the engaged colleges there is a sense of antipathy and obstinance with students who do less well.
Staffing: Recruitment is dire across the board in teaching. FE will not be the first career choice for a newly qualified teacher so colleges are increasingly looking within for experts and people willing to retrain to deliver GCSEs.
Timetabling: Lessons timetabled early in the day and split into two 1.5 hours seems to be the most effective. Making use of innovative ways of keeping contact with students in between lessons through Facebook and Edmodo for example also improves effectiveness
Here you can see Edmodo. It looks like Facebook but is secure and is an excellent way of communicating with students.
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