The Inclusion Quality Mark comprises ten elements which deal with inclusion in its widest sense and in all aspects of school life.
The ten elements are all practical parts of the life of a school.
Element 1 – Learner progress.
Element 2 – Learner attitudes, values and personal development.
Element 3 – Leadership and management.
Element 4 – Staffing systems and organisation.
Element 5 – The learning environment.
Element 6 – Teaching and learning.
Element 7 – Resources and ICT.
Element 8 – Parents and carers.
Element 9 – Governors and external partners.
Element 10 – The community.
A school achieving the IQM Award is likely to have many of these attributes:-
- An open, honest and humane approach to the needs of the whole school community.
- Very self-aware, through review, quality assurance and good knowledge of school data.
- Actively seeks maximum success for each and every learner.
- Focuses on the pursuit of excellence in teaching and learning.
- Is very well ordered and organised at different levels, with a clearly stated development agenda.
- Has an enthusiastic, supportive staff progressing the learning agenda.
- Motivated pupils.
- Very good relationships, between colleagues, with parents and among the children.
- Parents, Governors and outside agencies able to provide broader support, but also appropriate challenge.
With a school policy for teaching and learning which can show evidence of:-
1) analysis of evidence leading to quality information being made available to support
2) detailed planning, including the provision of appropriate resources and staffing.
3) Students in the best practise, actively sharing in their learning journey, which is
4) tracked and reviewed at regular intervals with
5) records being collated and disseminated, allowing the process to be cyclic and developmental.
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