Craig has delivered over 200 training sessions at conferences, on INSET days and as twilights in the last 8 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 5 Zoom courses which will be taking place in November and December 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) 'Pupil Premium 2024/25: Making a Difference!'
Friday 15th November 2024 - 9.15 to 11.15 a.m. via Zoom
The training session has the following objectives:·
- To understand the main purpose of the Pupil Premium grant
- To understand evidence around the potential additional challenges for disadvantaged pupils
- To consider how the DfE guidance around Pupil Premium strategies changed in 2021/22 and again in 2022/23 and understand how this informs what should be happening in 2024/25
- To consider the role of tutoring beyond the National Tutoring Scheme
- To reflect on the guidance of trusted sources of educational research, such as the EEF, as to which approaches schools might take with disadvantaged pupils
- To make the links between schools’ future plans and strong overall practice which will benefit all pupils
- To think about the provision schools already have in place and best practice in working with all families, including disadvantaged, to support all pupils
2) 'Increasing the impact of Teaching Assistants on pupils' independence and learning'
Tuesday 19th November 2024 - 9.15 to 11.15 a.m. via Zoom
The training session has the following objectives:·
- To become more familiar with the research over the last 20 years around Teaching Assistants
- To understand the main implications of the research for schools now and in the future
- To reflect on what outstanding impact of Teaching Assistants looks like in lessons
- To think about each of the 7 recommendations in the EEF report, ‘Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants’
- To look at the key principles of effective modelling and the integral role this plays in the work of Teachers and TAs
- To consider how Teachers and Teaching Assistants work together
- To focus on the key areas of improving pupils’ independence and learning
3) 'Leading, Managing and Making a Difference'
Thursday 21st November 2024 - 9.15 to 11.15 a.m. via Zoom
The training session has the following objectives:
- To identify our personal leadership ambitions and challenges
- To develop a clearer understanding of the differences between leading and managing
- To develop knowledge and understanding of some of the features of strong leadership and strong management
- To reflect on the importance of communicating our leadership vision to others
- To consider the potential barriers to achieving our vision
- To practice some of the skills which we need in our work as leaders
4) 'Monitoring and Assessment in Science and Foundation Subjects'
Friday 29th November 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
5) 'Adaptive Teaching and the Inclusive Classroom'
Tuesday 3rd December 2024 - 9.15 to 11.15 a.m. via Zoom
The training session has the following objectives:·
- To understand the need for an adaptive teaching approach and how this fits in with an ongoing commitment to inclusion
- To consider the key documentation that underpins the expectation that all teachers will implement an inclusive approach to teaching
- To reflect on when teachers need to consider differentiation, its place in an inclusive approach and how this is different to adapting lessons
- To consider whether teachers are confident and have the necessary skills and knowledge to adapt their own teaching and how and why they should deploy support staff in an adaptive manner
- To focus on how scaffolding can support an adaptive approach, how to implement scaffolding and the potential value this can add to pupils’ independence and learning
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.