Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This brand-new course offers the opportunity for high-quality professional development within a smaller group setting. The course is designed to be fully interactive: key ideas are introduced in the Keynote Sessions, and then worked through via discussion-based workshops, allowing you to think about how the learning from the day can be applied within your own context.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

A great opportunity to reflect on your current practice and find innovative ways to upskill and refine your approaches. The interactive and discussion-based nature of the day also creates an ideal way to meet with people from other schools, network and share best practice.

PROGRAMME

Keynote Session 1: Preparing for Exams – The Students’ Perspective

10.00am

• The ingredients needed to stay motivated.
• An effective route-map for learning.
• Hearing and remembering feedback.

Break

11.00am

Workshop 1: Practical Interventions to Boost Student Performance

11.20am 

• Messaging in the classroom.
• Framing and delivering an effective learning route, lesson by lesson.
• Feedback: How, When, and why?

Lunch

12.30pm

Keynote Session 2: Preparing for Exams – The Teachers’ Perspective

1.0pm 

• Where is the difficulty? What do we focus on in lessons and why?
• Tracking and reporting: noticing and acting early enough
• Professional review: Is this supporting effective reflection after each exam cycle?

Break

2.00pm

Workshop 2: Practical Interventions in Teacher-Planning

2.20pm

• The power of foregrounding, repetition, and recall
• Getting the balance right between building knowledge and using knowledge
• What be learned when the results are in and how

Conclusions

3.30pm

• Distilling the day’s ideas: What offers the maximum impact in your context?

Depart

3.40pm