Friday coordination

DP/CP Friday PD

4 September 2026

Housekeeping

Mocks

Mock timetable review

Check your subjects only:

Ignore invigilation for now.

What the ATL evidence is saying

Students — 29 responses

ATL areaSelections
Self-management17
Thinking17
Communication12
Research9
Social7

Teachers — 13 responses

  • Self-management: #1 for 7/13; top two for 9/13
  • Thinking: top two for 7/13
  • Communication: top two for 7/13

Broad convergence: Self-management + Thinking are emerging strongly.

Student voice — anonymous excerpts

“Organizing time.”
“Self management for managing time and revision.”
“Critical thinking and application.”
“Applying familiar concepts to novel, high stakes exam questions under time pressure.”
“Provide more practice.”
“Teachers could provide a framework of responses to make it easier to structure or construct personal thoughts or opinions.”
Open raw student responses ↗

From evidence to practice

SELF-MANAGEMENT

How can we help students better plan, manage deadlines, revise and work independently?

THINKING

How can we help students better analyse, apply knowledge, tackle unfamiliar questions and justify?

In groups: 1 thing we already do well + 1 practical strategy we could use more consistently.
Quick close

That’s it.

Mocks

Check your subject entries and flag anything that needs correcting.

Paper submission deadline: 11 September

ATL

Take one useful idea from the discussion into your teaching.

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