VT Papers and Resources on TES website resource page (Peter Barnard's Page)
www.tes.co.uk/resources
The link below takes you to a video hosted by Ginny Green, one of the outstanding teachers along with Peter Rattu et al at the outstanding Sharnbrook School. It is a solid intro into the values of VT.
Resources, draft papers and book on VT
Set out here are various odds and ends written over the years. Most are in draft form and some are published papers. They describe how the horizontal care and organisational systems that schools use are not only based on false assumptions but fail to work in critical management areas. VT rectifies these operational learning errors. Because the horizontal year system cannot do what it should with regard to learning, governments try to fix things by adding on new parts such as behaviour management, new guidelines, new regulations, SEAL, Citizenship, Community Cohesion, expanded PSHE, ECM agendas and so on. Governments then introduce Workforce Reform (really an expansion of bureaucratic back office systems) to manage ever increasing organisational complexity and workload together with increased inspection. There is no reform or transformation. Meanwhile kids have been reduced to data sets and many go through school (as do parents) without ever engaging in a meaningful conversation about learning with the school. At the same time customer care and (by implication) innovation, fails in any substantive form. Teachers are then criticised for perceived teaching failures and having a silo mentality when it is the school's system constructs and wrong assumptions that are mainly to blame. VT corrects these organisational and operational support and management issues and improves student outcomes by impacting positively on teaching and learning relationships. As a result of VT (in a properly trained school) more substantive learning relationships form and the values driven school emerges. Such schools always outperform schools driven by targets alone.
These articles (below) and papers first appeared on the old VT.org website and can now be found and downloaded from the resource areas at the TES website (below) where there is also a 'follow' facility that alerts you to new postings.
This book is available from Amazon in paper book or for Kindle downloads.
| VT and the Problem of School Leadership | VT and Why SEAL Should not be Programmed |
| Advice on Running a Better School | 10 VT Principles |
| Gifted and Talented and VT | Happiness and VT: We Need to Talk About Schools |
| VT and Thoughts on School Leadership | VT and Wellbeing |
| VT and Covey's 7 Habits of Effective People (Updated) | VT Explained: Origins and Destinations |
| VT and Notes on School Management | VT Introduction and Rationale |
| VT and School Management (Updated) | VT: Introduction and Rationale |
| Deming, School Management and VT | VT: Schools that Revert Back to Horizontal Systems |
| VT and School Autonomy |