Innovative Curriculum Design
A renewed focus for schools…
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Many schools are now having to adjust their teaching practice and assessment methods to reflect the pandemic’s impact on our young people.
This is requiring schools to reinvent their curriculum to ensure it is broad, balanced, inclusive, and supported by evidence-based research and good pedagogy, all things inspectors want to see under new Inspection Frameworks.
Our whole-school curriculum development package can help you do that fast and effectively. Suitable for both Primary and Secondary schools, it will enable you to:
- Design a vision statement for your curriculum that recognises the unique qualities of your school and its staff.
- Ensure your curriculum is evidence-based and underpinned by quality research.
- Create a pupil skills progression matrix and knowledge progression map.
- Devise new impact measures to gauge progress or adapt those you currently use.
- Help your subject leaders adjust their action plans so they encompass your curriculum’s vision and create clear links between subjects.
- Support your staff as they develop their subject knowledge in all areas of need.
- Showcase evidence of your successes to inspectors and external stakeholders in the best possible way.
Our curriculum development programme can include:
- Three to four in-school support days (face-to-face or online)
- Two follow-up twilight sessions (face-to-face or online)
- Up to 10 hours of remote support
Alternatively, we can tailor this package to your school’s priorities and current requirements. And if you would like to run this programme in conjunction with other schools in your region or Trust, just let us know.
T for Terrific Teaching
Best practice that leads to everyday greatness
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Consistently applying best practice will lead you to become a great teacher. This training programme gives you the tools to do that, so you can meet maximise every opportunity for pupil progress.
After our T for Terrific teaching training, you will be able to:
- Apply best practice thinking from the Sutton Trust, The Great Teaching Tool Kit and the Education Endowment Foundation.
- Discover and evaluate effective classroom strategies, including prompting for effortful thinking, questioning, metacognition, modelling, scaffolding, and clear explanations.
- Apply adaptive techniques that make learning stick.
- Implement practical and highly effective classroom strategies that create both challenge and curiosity in all learners.
- Reflect on your strengths as a teacher, do more of what works, and learn the psychology behind building good habits and breaking bad ones.
- Use key ideas from ‘Becoming a Growth Mindset School’ and ‘The Power of Mindset’ to transform your classroom environment.
- Make the best use of formative assessment and effective marking techniques.
Our T for Terrific Teaching programme can include:
- Three to four in-school support days (face-to-face or online)
- Two follow-up twilight sessions (face-to-face or online)
- Up to 10 hours of remote support
Alternatively, we can tailor this package to your school’s priorities and current requirements. And if you would like to run this programme in conjunction with other schools in your region or Trust, just let us know.
Lead Practitioner Programme for International Schools
Establishing a cohort of lead experts in your school
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Our lead practitioner programme is a bespoke training course for schools looking to develop a TEAM of experienced, well-informed lead practitioners who will drive teaching and learning and support the professional learning of colleagues in their school.
As part of this programme you will:
- Create a team of Lead Practitioners who will lead teaching and learning, professional development, and pedagogical coaching in your school.
- Build a culture of trust that supports colleagues to move forward with confidence.
- Make better use of classroom observations that improves teacher practice.
- Use Instructional coaching and mentoring to support teachers to improve their classroom practice.
- Gain knowledge of the principles behind forming habits and how to rewire your brain.
- Focus on developing good CPD provisions that enable staff to collaborate with one another.
- Discover how to set up and lead a Teaching and Learning Community.
- Review innovative and evidence-informed classroom practices that improve student achievement.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of staff CPD programmes on both teaching and learning outcomes.
Alternatively, we can tailor this package to your school’s priorities and current requirements. And if you would like to run this programme in conjunction with other schools in your region or Trust, just let us know.
Governance In International Schools
Leading the Way to Effective School Governance
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After completing the first part of the programme, Laying the Groundwork for Effective Governance, you will:
- Establish a collaborative relationship between governors and school leaders, ensuring effective communication and harmony.
- Identify skills gaps in your governors’ expertise to improve future board recruitment.
- Develop a roadmap for your school through a continuous cycle of strategic planning and actions.
The second part of the programme focuses on strengthening and enhancing governance, after which you will:
- Be prepared for inspections by understanding how inspectors assess governing bodies.
- Redefine the committee’s role by moving beyond traditional perceptions of its function.
- Raise the profile of your governing body with key stakeholders to enhance its effectiveness.
Alternatively, we can tailor this package to your school’s priorities and current requirements. And if you would like to run this programme in conjunction with other schools in your region or Trust, just let us know.
Neuroscience in Education
Unlocking the science of how we learn best
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Using neuroscience in education helps create a more memorable learning experience for students, as well as improve teacher performance. This training programme offers a practical approach for applying the latest research findings to your classroom practice.
After this training, you will be able to:
- Apply the latest neuroscience and cognitive psychology research to classroom pedagogy.
- Evaluate the influence of six key hormones and other physiological factors on student performance.
- Use the insights of key researchers such as Daniel Willingham and The Sutton Trust in your classroom.
- Implement new learning and revision strategies that make memories ‘stick’ and recall more effective.
- Help students become independent and self-regulated learners so they can take the lead in their own learning.
- Teach strategies and assessment techniques that maximise student learning in both the short and long-term.
- Carry out curriculum reviews and audits to support deeper learning across all subject levels.
Our Neuroscience in Education programme can include:
- Three to four in-school support days (face-to-face or online)
- Two follow-up twilight sessions (face-to-face or online)
- Up to 10 hours of remote support
Alternatively, we can tailor this package to your school’s priorities and current requirements. And if you would like to run this programme in conjunction with other schools in your region or Trust, just let us know.
Safeguarding School Package
Keeping Children Safe In Education
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‘Keeping Children Safe’ is a comprehensive training package based upon the latest knowledge and up-to-date practices for keeping young people safe in school. Drawing on UK and international legislation and policies, it is delivered by accredited safeguarding trainers and contains practical examples and ready-to-use resources you will find of great value no matter where your school is located. Our Safeguarding courses provide a much deeper level of training than can be found on any e-learning platform. Training is bespoke and can be delivered as a blended CPD programme or as stand-alone session/s either online or face-to-face.
Our ‘Keeping Children Safe’ package can include:
- Level 1 Whole-school safeguarding and child protection training — choose from 12 possible modules.
- Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSLs) training — for those new in post or requiring a refresher course.
- DSL ‘Train the Trainer’ programme.
- Safeguarding supervision meetings for DSL’s.
- Safer recruitment — for senior leaders and HR managers.
- How best to use whole-school audits and reviews of current safeguarding, e-safety, anti-bullying and inclusion policies.
- Inspection Safeguarding training.
- Whole-school training modules from our Accredited Safeguarding and Child Protection Training Pack (currently only available to International Schools).
If you’d like to have this training with another school in your local area or Trust simply let us know.
Creating a Whole-School Framework for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
Building a confident team to lead wellbeing across the school
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This programme will enable you to put in place an effective, supportive wellbeing and mental health agenda across all key stages. Delivered by our team of experienced mental health and well-being trainers using the latest, most reliable educational research, this training will equip you with a much deeper understanding of current emotional wellbeing and mental health issues.
After this training, you will be able to:
- Establish a culture that nurtures positive wellbeing and mental health throughout the whole of your school system.
- Implement preventative measures and practical strategies that reduce barriers to learning.
- Develop an effective wellbeing and mental health curriculum across all key stages in your school.
- Discover a range of practical preventative measures that you can implement fast and effectively.
- Develop a whole-school system for assessing, monitoring, reviewing and evaluating student cases sensitively and effectively.
- Instil ‘digital resilience’ in children and young people to ensure their social and emotional wellbeing online.
- Apply educational research from the most reliable and current sources to support your wellbeing programme.
- Creating a Whole-School Framework for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health is suitable for: all staff, but particularly those with a pastoral responsibility.
Creating a Whole-School Framework for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health can include:
- Three to four in-school support days (face-to-face or online)
- Two follow-up twilight sessions (face-to-face or online)
- Up to 10 hours of remote support
Alternatively, we can tailor this package to your school’s priorities and current requirements. And if you would like to run this programme in conjunction with other schools in your region or Trust, just let us know.