Testimonials

Nyah District Primary School conducted Pivot twice during 2017. We surveyed our grade 2 to 6 students. Teachers utilised the data within the school as a reflection component on their performance and as a positive reinforcement tool for teaching and learning. Staff were comfortable sharing their data with other members of staff and this led to many highly beneficial conversations. Staff found the data to be useful in their own Performance and Development processes and also gave insight into students thoughts.

The Pivot survey was easy to administer and allowed students a voice. This voice was carefully considered by staff and leadership. Actions taken from the PIVOT results have had a positive impact within our school and as a result students have benefitted.

Our experience with Pivot is that it has had a really positive impact on the culture within our school in terms of sharing data and practice with colleagues. It’s helped individual teachers get real feedback from students about what’s happening in their classroom… My own experience as a teacher is that it has given me strategies for making an impact on the learning in my classroom.

The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) is the premier national organisation supporting the teaching and learning of mathematics. In 2017 we collaborated with Pivot to develop and pilot some mathematics-specific questions to supplement the survey of teacher effectiveness. I was personally very impressed with the quality and thoroughness of the quantitative results. The qualitative commentary was insightful and well written. The outcome was that we have identified possible areas of need in mathematics teaching that the Council is considering in its forward planning. The Pivot staff with whom I have interacted have shown themselves to be highly professional; and good communicators who met agreed deadlines. We hope to continue to collaborate with Pivot as opportunities arise.