Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will demonstrate how you can get the most out of our conference platform. The OSME team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools.

Early birds are encouraged to drop-in, introduce yourself and chat with the organisers, chairperson and fellow delegates

Alternatively, click on “Attendees”, search through the delegate list and send connection requests, then start a text chat or click on the video icon to start a video meeting

Delegates should switch back to the Live Agenda Page on Swapcard to tune in for the next session

Biggest Differentiators for Attainment in Summer 2021 and the Topics of the Day:

• Exams and summative assessments update – how schools have responded for summer 2021
• Strategies for identifying gaps and making successful interventions
• Formative assessments, homework and feedback strategies for raising attainment
• Strategies for successful hybrid teaching and learning
• Strategies for improving engagement and nurturing creativity

The Short-Term View: Navigating the Assessment Storm – How to Maximise Attainment for Every Student in Summer 2021

• What can schools still do to tee up students for success for summer 2021?
• How are you ensuring no child gets left behind?
• How are your schools identifying and closing knowledge and skills gaps? What intervention and adaptive learning strategies are you using?
• What are the biggest differentials; where can principals, academic heads and teachers have the biggest impact
• How can teachers and principals develop a portfolio of internally and externally validated work to showcase their skills and talents
• What additional strategies can Middle East schools use to accredit and demonstrate pupil value?

Summer 2021 Examinations

• How to view and value summer 2021 examinations
• How to ensure student accreditation remains fair, meaningful, reliable and credible
• How to prepare for success this summer and ensure no students get left behind

Delegates can join the speed networking meeting room for a chance to meet and greet other delegates, putting faces to names. Delegates will be paired off 12 times for 1 minute for informal introductions. Delegates are then free to continue the conversation with any of these new connections later in the day

Alternatively delegates can start their own meetings by clicking on “Attendees” > send connection requests > start a text chat or click on the video icon to start a video meeting

Delegates should switch back to the Live Agenda Page on Swapcard to tune in for the next session

No Excuses: Raising Attainment through the Pandemic

• Setting ambitious targets and not hiding behind the pandemic – focusing on attainment following unprecedented disruption
• What are the biggest factors for success that academic leaders can actually affect
• What are the gaps in early and primary years that we need to be identifying and attempting to close right now to avoid a future skills and knowledge crisis
• Leadership strategies and creating a culture of success

The Long-Term View: Closing Gaps and Raising Attainment

• What are the long term gaps created by the pandemic – how should they be identified and planned for over the next 5 years
• Don’t forget the goals – how do we continue to insert creativity into the assessment and pedagogy process to nurture and teach creativity
• What are the alternatives to assessment? Are micro-credentials the future for assessment?
• How are you navigating assessment disruption and rethinking the accreditation process? What has been the most effective means of building a broad portfolio of assessed work (both internally and externally validated), in order to demonstrate genuine student value?
• How have you improved outcomes without overloading students and teachers?

These roundtable discussions are hosted in (Zoom) video meeting rooms away from the main conference (Swapcard) platform

They are designed to maximise active delegate participation. All delegates are expected to attend roundtables with videos turned on

Formative Assessment, Homework and Feedback Strategies for Closing Gaps and Raising Attainment

• For online learners, which strategies remove parents and the internet for when an accurate picture of student knowledge and abilities in needed?
• What verbal strategies have you effectively deployed? Chat little and often; can conducting regular short conversations give teachers a greater understanding in real time of student development? Does this and 1-on-1 conferencing build student confidence and identify knowledge gaps early and regularly?
• Which formative assessment strategies empower students and give them increased motivation, agency and autonomy?
• Which informal assessment methods best drive creativity and critical thinking?

A break for delegates to take lunch and to connect with other attendees via the chat function or 1-to-1 video meetings on the event online platform. To start a meeting click on “Attendees”, search through the delegate list and send connection requests, then start a text chat or click on the video icon to start a video meeting

Delegates should switch back to the Live Agenda Page on Swapcard to tune in for the next session

How to Motivate, Engage and Build Confidence for Students through Unprecedented Disruption – Making Education Personal and Authentic to Improve Learning Outcomes

• Has remote learning dehumanised education and made it impersonal? How to ensure skillsets such as collaboration and communication are not lost
• Improving long-term motivation and wellbeing
• How to make remote, hybrid and in-person teaching personal and authentic to close the gap
• How to create content that is relevant and contextualised and provides moments of awe
• How to leverage student passion, strengths and interests
• Offering flexible pace and pathways for tailored tuition

Solution for Closing Gaps: Response to Intervention (RTI)

• Recognising RTI as a teaching and intervention tool
• Setting up and implementing a 3 tiered response for intervention for lower performing students and those experiencing SEN. The first tier as high quality, scientific instruction and universal screening, the second tier as targeted interventions and the third tier as intensive interventions and comprehensive evaluations
• Game-based learning, active learning, enquiry-based learning, problem-based learning and experiential learning

These roundtable discussions are hosted in (Zoom) video meeting rooms away from the main conference (Swapcard) platform

They are designed to maximise active delegate participation. All delegates are expected to attend roundtables with videos turned on

Intervention Strategies for Raising Attainment

• Identification strategies that work; stop collecting data and start collating and processing it better
• What intervention strategies are the most accessible for your school and which are you currently deploying?
• What are the pros and cons of Response to Intervention? What are the lean, good value options for investing in tech to support intervention?
• Individual and group work strategies for effective intervention via remote learning
• Reflections on incorporation of artificial intelligence and differentiated instruction

These roundtable discussions are hosted in (Zoom) video meeting rooms away from the main conference (Swapcard) platform

They are designed to maximise active delegate participation. All delegates are expected to attend roundtables with videos turned on

Best Practice Hybrid Learning Lesson Plans to Raise Attainment

• Maximum impact, minimum time and resources
• Video is the most powerful tool for teachers during and beyond the pandemic. This workshop focuses on empowering teachers to know what to record and when to use video to maximise engagement and learning
• Use video to seamlessly pivot between remote, hybrid and classroom instruction
• Allow students to consume information at their own pace and grade them on mastery rather than memory

A short break for delegates to take refreshments and to connect with other attendees via the chat function or 1-to-1 video meetings on the event online platform. To start a meeting click on “Attendees”, search through the delegate list and send connection requests, then start a text chat or click on the video icon to start a video meeting

Delegates should switch back to the Live Agenda Page on Swapcard to tune in for the next session

Our Video Workshops are led by highly experienced training professionals. Please turn your video on for this session for active participation.

Deepen Student Thinking, Understanding and Application of Knowledge

• Techniques for using questioning to extend and evaluate student learning experiences.
• Eight different kinds of questions that challenge students to demonstrate higher-order thinking and communicate depth of knowledge.
• How to rephrase the performance objectives of university and career readiness standards into questions that engage and challenge students

A short break for delegates to take refreshments and to connect with other attendees via the chat function or 1-to-1 video meetings on the event online platform. To start a meeting click on “Attendees”, search through the delegate list and send connection requests, then start a text chat or click on the video icon to start a video meeting

Delegates should switch back to the Live Agenda Page on Swapcard to tune in for the next session

Our Video Workshops are led by highly experienced training professionals

Please turn your video on for this session for active participation

The Future of Assessment – beyond 2021: Leadership Lessons and Grading from the Inside Out

• Establishing a standards-based mindset; recognising summative assessment as a necessary and productive part of a balanced assessment system
• Reaffirming, reworking and rethinking assessment fundamentals for the 21^st Which assessment fundamentals need to be reaffirmed despite the curricular shifts, which need to be reworked to increase relevance, and which need to be rethought given the complexities of competency-based instruction
• Creating genuine confidence and self-belief through grounded and authentic evidence of learning. High quality feedback promotes self-efficacy and positive learning trajectory
• Constructional agility and avoided the over quantification of assessment

*Final programme subject to change