This session explores what research suggests makes effective CPD. We will consider how to make CPD research informed and how to design CPD in order for it to have the greatest outcome for staff and pupils. This practical session will help colleagues to take the theory and begin to turn it into a whole school approach.

Facilitator: Alan Eathorne is the Headteacher at Husbands Bosworth CE Primary School who are part of Learn Academies Trust (Learn-AT), as well as being a Senior Leader of Education and Evidence Lead in Education.

Suitable for: Teachers and leaders who contribute to the delivery of CPD in their schools.  

Cost: Band 1 / £65

Date: Anytime, virtual

This session supports Aspiring ELEs to learn more about the role and the impact you can have in partnership with the Kyra Associate Research School.

ELEs are highly effective teachers. They are middle and senior leaders with the skills to support individuals or teams in similar positions in other schools. They are engaged professionals, interested and experienced in using research evidence to inform and evaluate their own practice and to support colleagues’ professional learning. They understand what strong leadership of evidence-informed school improvement looks like and are skilled in helping other leaders to achieve it in their own context.

Suitable for: Highly effective teachers and leaders with an interest in evidence-informed educational approaches.  

Free of Charge

Date: Anytime, virtual

How do I develop my understanding of outstanding classroom
practice?
This programme aims to enhance teacher-expertise through a range of tried and tested research based pedagogy. Delivered over 5 Twilight CPD sessions for ‘good to outstanding’ teachers (1 hour
each), with development work between sessions. Participants will be provided opportunities to reflect on their own teaching approaches and their quality and impact. Participants will also be expected to undertake a small action research project and carry out further reading culminating in a presentation to fellow participants.
Participants will be expected to adopt a willingness to be open and active participants throughout, and to reflect critically on their own practice, considering how they might adapt their methods to
become consistently outstanding teachers. Participants will explore the following themes (however, content may be adapted to cohort needs):

• Oracy: promoting appropriate discussion about the subject matter.
• Assessment for Learning: check learners’ understanding systematically, helping learners to embed and use knowledge fluently or to check understanding and inform teaching.
• Responsive and adapting teaching: respond and adapt teaching as necessary. Identify misconceptions accurately and provide clear, direct feedback.
• Recall: helping learners to remember in the long term the content they have been taught and to integrate new knowledge into larger concepts.
• Reading: develop learners’ confidence and enjoyment in reading to promote learning.
• Disadvantaged students: enabling teachers to support disadvantaged students through the most effective approaches.

Suitable for: 'Good to Outstanding', confident classroom practitioners who wish to develop their expertise further (Primary or Secondary colleagues)

Price: Band 3 / £450 for the programme

Date: Beginning Tuesday 12^th January 2021,  delivered over 5 Twilight CPD sessions (1 hour each), with development work between sessions.

How do I develop my teaching expertise further?
This professional learning programme will re-engage you in the principles of quality first teaching. There will be opportunities to explore leading educational research, engage in deliberate practice and receive supportive and clear feedback in your own school. Participants will consider deeply the principles of quality first teaching. You will draw upon evidence- informed teaching strategies to provide you with both a practical toolkit and the confidence to succeed in the classroom. The programme provides 3 facilitated sessions; these will be responsive to cohort needs, but may include: Behaviour and Relationships, Explaining and Modelling, Practice and Retrieval. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to see best practice, for peer to peer development and gain feedback through instructional coaching from an SLE.

Participants must be open to feedback and demonstrate a willingness to trial a range of approaches within their teaching with the support of an experienced coach.

Suitable for: Teachers seeking to grow the effectiveness of their practice in the classroom.

Price: Band 3 / £650 for the programme including coaching

Date: Beginning Tuesday 12^th January 2021

The 15-month, Chartered Teacher Programme is aligned with the Chartered College of Teaching’s aims to raise the status of the profession and enable teachers to acquire the expertise necessary to maintain excellence in teaching and secure the best outcomes for young people.  

Suitable for: Experienced teachers seeking to become accredited as expert teachers

Price: TBC

Date: Spring 2021 TBC

Developing ‘A Level’ pedagogy and using leading research to understand how to support and challenge the most able learners is the focus of this session.

Suitable for: ‘A Level’ teachers and those new to teaching KS5

Price: Band 1 / £125

Date: Virtual

For teachers of English, Maths, Science, Geography, History and MFL: each one-day, subject-specific session will guide you to identify and deepen your knowledge of your subject’s key substantive and disciplinary knowledge and explore how these can be sequenced coherently overtime to support pupils’ schema building.

Suitable for: Teachers and middle leaders who want to deepen their knowledge and understanding of planning effective curriculum content and sequences

Price: Band 1 / £125

Dates:

• History 17^th November 2020
• Maths: 28^th January 2021
• English 2^nd February 2021
• Science 11^th February 2021
• Geography 19^th March 2021
• MFL 25^th March 2021

This practical, online session guides school leaders in asking the right questions with precision, to examine and understand the effectiveness of your curriculum. It aims to upskill all senior leaders in evaluating the quality of curriculum design so that the impact on pupil outcomes is high. It will also give practical steps to help senior leaders understand the curriculum in subjects outside their own specialism.

Suitable for: All senior leaders, not just those who lead on the curriculum directly.

Price: Band 1 / £125

Date: 18^th January 2021

This full-day professional learning session will deepen your understanding of the types of data collected in schools and how this is best harnessed to lead to positive improvements in pupil outcomes.

Suitable for: Teachers and middle leaders who are responsible for understanding and responding to data to drive school improvement.

Price: Band 1 / £125

Date: 22^nd June 2021