Craig has delivered over 150 training sessions at conferences, on INSET days and as twilights in the last 7 years. Training sessions are tailored to suit each client's requirements so half-day sessions can be delivered as twilights and vice versa.
Craig has 3 Zoom courses which will be taking place in April and May 2024. The cost of places on each course is £80 per delegate. All courses can be booked as face-to-face sessions at individual schools. The courses are:
1) 'Monitoring and Assessment in Science and Foundation Subjects'
Tuesday 30th April 2024 - 9.15 to 11.15 a.m. via Zoom
The training session has the following objectives:·
- To think about how and why subject leaders monitor their subjects
- To consider and reflect on what subject leaders should focus on in their monitoring
- To understand the main expectations of Ofsted as to the impact of subject leaders and how this links with monitoring
- To reflect on some of the features of strong subject leader monitoring
- To think about how progression maps connect with monitoring
- To consider what schools should be focusing on in their on-going assessment
- To explore what subject leaders should expect of colleagues, particularly with regard to their ongoing assessment
- To consider some of the key messages in Ofsted subject reviews and reports
- To reflect on the characteristics of Age-Related learning and Greater Depth learning and how subject leaders might approach this through monitoring
- To analyse what subject leaders should ask pupils in monitoring work
2) 'Scaffolding, Metacognition and Self-Regulation'
Wednesday 8th May 2024 - 9.15 to 11.15 a.m. via Zoom
The training session has the following objectives:·
- To learn more about scaffolding and to understand the scaffolding framework
- To understand the research around pupils’ ability to self-regulate and develop their metacognition
- To reflect on the links between scaffolding and developing pupils’ self-regulation, metacognition and independence
- To consider the importance of having strong models to support pupils’ learning and growing independence
- To explore the term “learned helplessness” and to consider how adults can make children dependent
- To explore what we need to do in scaffolding to support children’s growing independence, self-regulation, metacognition and learning
3) 'Deep Dives - preparing to present your curriculum in the best light'
Tuesday 21st May 2024 - 9.15 to 11.15 a.m. via Zoom
The training session has the following objectives:
- To understand the rationale behind deep dives
- To consider the structure and individual elements of deep dives
- To reflect on what subject leaders should be considering to make sure that they are well-prepared for a deep dive
- To consider whether deep dives are likely to reflect that teaching is having a strong impact on learning
- To focus on how subject leaders and their colleagues can prepare sufficiently well so that a deep dive is likely to give a positive impression
The following courses have been successfully delivered in 2023 and 2024; they are all available as 2-hour twilights (see list below):
Craig's most popular twilight training courses have been:
- 'Successful Subject Leadership - impact and improvement in your curriculum'
- 'Successful Subject Leadership 2 - the practical aspects of improving teaching and learning'
- 'Scaffolding, Metacognition and Self-Regulation ... to increase pupils' independence and to accelerate their learning'
- 'Know More, Remember More'
- 'Improving Talk, Valuing Vocabulary and Narrowing the Word Gap'
- 'Increasing the Impact of Teaching Assistants on pupils' independence and learning'
- 'Effective TA Deployment and Practice'
- 'Deep Dives - preparing to present your curriculum in the best light'
- 'Governors and Ofsted - what to expect and how to prepare'
If you want more details or feedback from previous participants on any of these courses then please contact Craig.