Whole School Staff Inset Days

EXAMPLE: FULL DAY WHOLE SCHOOL STAFF CPD INSET DAY

INSET DAY: Establishing a Culture of High Quality Teaching & Learning Across Your School

PROGRAMME

10.00 – 10.10am: Welcome & Introduction

10.10 – 10.50am: Session 1: Establishing a Strong Teaching and Learning Ethic Across the School

• Maintaining consistently high expectations; what does it take to establish and communicate the vision across the school?
• Establishing a strong work ethic and dedicated focus amongst students to achieve the very best of which they are capable
• Ensuring consistency of stretch and challenge across the school; focus on effective teaching strategies that aid successful learning

10.50 – 11.10am: BREAK & REFRESHMENTS

11.10 – 11.50am: Session 2: Establishing a Strong Learning Ethic

• Promoting high quality teacher reflection
• Facilitating effective teacher collaboration
• Developing leaders of teaching & learning
• The challenge of motivating and stretching highly able learners
• Making the central core of your school a success and creating an outstanding learning ethos

11.50 – 12.10 pm: Discussion, Q & A Panel Session

12.10 – 1.00pm: BREAKOUT STRAND 1

1A: Outstanding Teaching & Learning: Taking Risks and Pushing Boundaries

• Going above and beyond to Inspire outstanding learning
• Implementing outstanding teaching & learning techniques to drive forward learning excellence
• Creating an inspirational setting for inspired learning
• Stimulating learning excitement with reinvigorated methods and approaches
• What do students sound like when exciting learning is happening?

1B: Instructional Coaching To Improve Teaching & Learning Effectiveness

• Establishing classroom procedures that build successful habits
• Techniques to improve the focus on effective teaching strategies
• Probing problems in teacher delivery; how to identify concrete action steps that lead to improvement
• Building confidence, and resilience, in coaches to successfully lead teacher development

1.00 – 2.00pm: LUNCH

2.00 -3.00pm: BREAKOUT STRAND 2: Practical Workshop Sessions

1A: Extending Students’ Oracy Skills to demonstrate their Depth of Learning

• Critical, Evaluative Skills Effective approaches to develop students’ ability to demonstrate flair, creative thinking, knowledge and understanding
•  Embedding skills of debate: justifying and forming a valid opinion, and evaluating an informed judgement

1B:  Effectively Measuring the Quality of TLA in your department/Faculty

• How to do effectively measure the quality of TLA in a culture of non-graded observations?
• What is the evidence needed to measure the quality of teaching and learning?
• Motivating your team to aspire to greater efforts and embed the whole school vision

3.00- 3.10pm: AFTERNOON TEA

3.10 – 3.30pm: Summary of the Day, Final Key Points

3.30pm: Depart

INSET DAY: Effective Leadership Styles and Behaviours

PROGRAMME

10.00 – 10.10am: Welcome & Introduction

10.10 – 10.50am: Session 1: Exploring the Behaviours of an Outstanding & Inspiring Leader

• Explore the different skills needed to be effective as a manager and inspirational as a leader
• Explore the behaviours of successful leaders
• Understand your natural style of leadership
• Explore different styles of leadership and understanding when each style is effective and what the pitfalls might be
• Hone your leadership style and creating impact
• Role Modelling – Inspiring and supporting others to step up

10.50 – 11.10am: Q & A, Discussion

11.10 – 11.30am: BREAK & REFRESHMENTS

11.30 – 12.40pm: Managing Challenging Conversation

• Getting the balance right – picking the right medium to communicate certain messages
• How to have difficult conversations with staff – effective strategies, techniques and approaches
• Understand personality types and how best to motivate them
• Strategies to give challenging feedback to your team in a positive way
• Getting the balance right between support and challenge to create a thriving, hardworking culture

12.40 – 1.40pm: LUNCH

1.40 – 2.30pm: BREAKOUT STRAND 1

1A: Managing People Effectively & With Confidence

• Understanding when to manage and when to lead to get the best out of your team
• Managing the way we communicate with our team
• Exploring the different styles of leadership  – to delegate, to simply tell people what to do, and what the middle ground looks like
• Learn how to be assertive to influence and persuade

1B: Top Tips for Running Effective Meetings

• Have clear objectives so your meeting serves a useful purpose and achieves a desired outcome
• Winning hearts and minds – setting exciting and challenging department actions, targets, areas of change which engage the full team
• Learn how to connect every member of your team with a positive meeting, working to people’s strengths
• Make it fun, inspiring, productive – and achieves what was set out for the meeting

2.30 – 2.40pm: AFTERNOON TEA

2.40 – 3.20pm: Leading Change in Your Department

• Effective techniques to drive departmental improvement
• Balancing your role as a manager and leader running a flourishing, effective, efficient department, with your role as  leader, exciting people with your change
• Ensure meetings are effective, appraisals are engaging, feedback is delivered with impact
• Ensuring you create long term, sustainable department improvement

3.20 – 3.30pm: Summary of the Day, Final Key Points

3.30pm: Depart