Leading Teaching and Learning
Analysis, review and planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Self-review and evaluation tools & diagnostics
- Shaping a vision for the department/year
- Curriculum analysis and schemes of work/lesson planning
- How to construct a departmental/pastoral development plan
Creating a collective culture of high expectations
- Understanding more about the urban context and why some groups of pupils fail to thrive
- How to personalise learning, targeting provision for diverse needs with specific interventions
- Best practice in a variety of strategies to promote positive pupil behaviour that will support learning
How to use school and pupil performance data to drive up standards
- Analysing and using pupil attainment and assessment data to set targets and track progress
- Common approach to data-driven teaching interventions
What makes a great lesson and how we know - improving the quality of teaching
- What makes a good or outstanding lesson
- Teaching thinking and study skills
- Use of new technologies at classroom level
- Accelerating learning - multiple intelligences/preferred learning styles
- What teachers can learn from brain science and neuro-psychology
- Top tips/'30 minute messages'/quick fixes
- Assessment for learning
- Behaviour for learning
- Effective use of paired and group work
Literacy across the curriculum
- How to build literacy and oral activities into every subject
- How to engage boys in reading and improve their writing
- How to assess literacy levels and diagnose need
- Literacy strategies that work
- Improving writing at secondary level
- How to teach debating and oracy
- Understanding bilingualism and multi-lingualism
Supporting Learning and behaviour management.
- Rewards and sanctions
- Extending and enriching learning outside the classroom
- Effective provision for special educational needs and learning support
- Effective use of small withdrawal groups and in-class support
- Emotional factors in learning and teaching
- Understanding adolescent behaviour - what's normal/abnormal
- How to cater for the most able - gifted and talented
Working with stakeholders
- Utilising students' social capital, encouraging student agency
- Valuing and learning from student voice/councils
- Celebrating and rewarding achievement
- Nurturing ‘family educational cultures,' engaging with parents
- Inter and intra-school collaboration
- Multi-agency working and community engagement
- Carving a niche in the national agenda
- Diversity, Equalities and community cohesion
Disclaimer: Please note that the detailed curriculum outline has been included to give you a better sense for what the Teaching Leaders programme will comprise. However, it may be that we are unable to include every element of the ideal curriculum, or that we need to alter the curriculum slightly, and we reserve the right to do so.