Module Title
Audience
Approx. length (mins)
New senior leaders
10
Ofsted’s Deep Dive Methodology: How to Do Your • Rationale and methodology of the ‘deep dive’. • Exemplars – using this method in your own school. Own Deep Dive’ • How triangulation supports judgments.
Senior/ middle leaders
20
Effective Curriculum Leadership
• • • •
The role of the curriculum leader. Understanding your department Leading a team. Effective monitoring.
Middle leaders
20
Making the Best Use of Pupil Premium
• • • •
The role of additional funding. Developing an effective strategy. Managing and monitoring interventions. External accountability.
Senior leaders
20
Developing Positive Engagement with Families
• • • •
Removing barriers. Parent wellbeing and building resilience. Channelling parent expectations. Purposeful family empowerment.
Senior leaders
20
Talking Head Video: What I Wish I’d Known as a New Senior Leader
Description Peter Stewart discusses: • • • •
The difference in scope: leading a whole school. Vision and values. Bringing the team with you. Managing change
Leadership and Management
Module Title
Description
Audience
Approx. length (mins)
Senior leaders
10
Quality of Education
Talking Head: What I Wish I’d Known as a Whole School Lead of Curriculum
Louise Agley discusses:
Using Rosenshine’s Principles in the classroom
• The strategies that support learning. • Developing research-informed practice. • Effective implementation.
Teachers
20
What is ‘Quality First Teaching'?
• Including all learners. • Pre-emptive teaching. • Cultivating a high success rate.
Teachers
20
Attention: The Bridge Between Teaching and Learning
• Attention as the gatekeeper to learning. • Understanding how attention works. • Strategies to support attention in the classroom.
Teachers
20
Managing the Curriculum Transition
• • • •
KS3 teachers/ leads
20
• • • •
Whole school alignment. Sequencing and selection. Purposeful assessment. Cross-curricular links.
KS2 SATs and the wider curriculum. Identifying gaps in knowledge. Setting the standard early. Making links with your feeder schools.
Module Title
Description
Audience
Approx. length (mins)
• Universal approaches in the classroom. • Fulfilling the anticipatory duty. • How to avoid inclusion on demand.
Teachers
20
An Autism Friendly Classroom
• • • •
Environment – sights, sounds. Seating arrangements – stimulants. Stress and trigger points. Friendship and body language.
Teachers
20
Teacher and Teaching Assistant Collaboration
• Collaboration and co-production. • Maximising the use of support staff. • Using resources effectively.
Teachers
20
Using the Nurture Approach to Enhance Your Classroom Practice
• Benefits of the nurture approach. • Practical strategies to support young people. • Transforming responses.
Teachers
20
Improving Attendance and Engagement
• Improving lesson attendance by creating a desire to be present. • Ways of making all pupils feel included. • Encouraging full and positive participation by all. • Engaging the whole family in the educational ethos of the school.
Senior leaders
20
Emotional Regulation/De-escalation Training
• • • •
Teachers
20
SEND
Inclusion by Design
Behaviour and Attitudes
Looking for patterns and antecedents. Distraction techniques. After crisis talk down. Suggestion versus direction.
Module Title
Description
Personal Development
Creating a Careers Curriculum
• Statutory responsibilities. • Embedding careers in the curriculum through Gatsby benchmark 4. • Stakeholder support. • Wider support available.
Building a Personal Development Curriculum
• What aspects of provision comprise the personal development judgement. • Applying curriculum design principles to personal development. • How the personal development curriculum is inspected.
Promoting British Values Through the Curriculum
• • • •
Schools’ responsibilities for British values. Embedding British values in the curriculum. Monitoring implementation. Evidencing coverage for external visitors.
Audience
Approx. length (mins)
Career leads
20
Senior leaders
20
Senior/middl e leaders
20