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​Training programmes for Secondary Schools

Areas of focus

• Learning Talk – questioning and collaborative learning as a key to rapid progress for all
• Improving teaching and learning
• Coaching with impact
• Observation with impact
• Post 16 improvement 
• Working with other schools – how to get the best out of your MAT: a teaching and learning focus
• Developing Initial Teacher Training Programmes
• Middle Leader coaching programme

The following programmes are for SLT, middle leaders and/or teachers.  They are designed to be matched to the needs of the school.

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Programme focus:  Learning Talk – questioning and collaborative learning as a key to rapid progress for all

​SLT: Develop a holistic approach to this aspect of teaching and learning – support with designing and implementing paperwork and documentation for a consistent approach to lesson planning, observation and monitoring.  

Middle Leaders: Observing learning talk in the classroom – how to observe / what it looks like.  Supporting teachers in planning and delivering a learning classroom.  Coaching and mentoring teachers who are not delivering effectively.

Teaching staff: Personalised, departmental and/or whole staff sessions in:
Questioning; planning for questioning (short, medium and long term); collaborative learning activities; planning for progress; understanding how learning talk can positively impact the learning classroom.

Programme focus: Improving teaching and learning

​SLT: Developing an approach to improving teaching and learning in your school. Includes examination of documentation and processes for monitoring; observation; planning schemes of work; lesson planning.
Examination of delivery of the curriculum. Are your staff planning well, but not delivering consistently!

Middle Leaders: Developing middle leader skills –

• leading not managing
• strategic development
• implementing processes with a focus on teaching and learning
• monitoring processes
• observation skills

• coaching skills

​Teaching Staff: Practical tools for improving aspects of teaching and learning.  Individual, departmental, whole school

Programme focus: Coaching with impact

​SLT: Developing an observation and coaching programme for all staff. Includes development of paperwork and processes.  Build capacity through coaching training

​Middle Leaders: How to develop a process for coaching to improve teaching and learning

Programme focus: Observation with impact

​SLT: Developing a new observation and coaching programme.
Training observers for a consistent approach.
Delivery of a programme for Cross–MAT consistency of observation – does everyone agree what outstanding looks like?
Building an ethos of developmental observation in the school – a programme for effective leadership

Middle Leaders: Observation training - how to observe – what are we looking for? How will we know if we’ve found it?

Programme focus: Post 16 improvement

​SLT: Enhance your leadership of post 16 – developing new leaders; developing consistent approaches.
Introducing the post 16 conference – for attendance of both students and staff!

• build trust
• develop learning and teaching skills * raise and meet expectations such as meeting deadlines; marking; attainment
• choosing and reaching goals – together.

Middle Leaders: How to effectively lead teaching and learning at post 16. How do you monitor teaching and learning at post 16? Examine some tried and tested strategies and processes.
Teaching staff: Why are my post 16 results not as good as I want them to be? Teaching and learning skills for post 16.

Programme focus: Working with other schools – how to get the best out of your MAT: a teaching and learning focus

​SLT: Developing consistency without losing motivation
Building capacity – sharing the vision effectively across leadership teams
NB – all of the above for your MAT

Middle Leaders: Positive and impactful working with leaders in the other schools – what can we learn? What can we share?
Teaching Staff: Cross-MAT training sessions to enhance consistent approaches to teaching and learning / classroom practice

Programme focus: Developing Initial Teacher Training Programmes

SLT: Developing a programme for initial teacher training from scratch.
Mentor training
Creating and implementing your own training course so you can deliver it to your staff

Middle Leaders: The role of the subject leader in supporting new teachers.  Coaching and mentoring new teachers.

Teaching staff: Personalised or whole group sessions for initial teacher training programmes.
Including: behaviour management; rapid progress; using data; lesson planning for progress; applying for a job. 

Programme focus: Coaching for Middle Leaders

​ Individual and personalised coaching programme. Consists of diagnostic day (meeting, observation and perusal of documentation as necessary); creation of agreed coaching programme with outcomes; up to 4 coaching sessions.