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Outstanding Teaching and Learning: A systematic approach to improvement

Outstanding Teaching and Learning: A systematic approach to improvement

£299.00
Phase: 
Primary, Secondary
ISBN: 
978-1-907927-14-0
Published: 
Sep 2012

Overview

Outstanding Teaching and Learning is a deliver-it-yourself training package that focuses on the key ingredients of outstanding teaching to help teachers understand what outstanding looks like for them and the range of ways they can achieve it. 

Rather than provide a ‘one size fits all’ mold, this unique course helps teachers improve practice by developing their own understanding of outstanding teaching which both meets Ofsted criteria and resonates for them so that they genuinely believe in it.

Benefits

Outstanding Teaching and Learning will enable your teachers to:

  • Raise standards achieved by pupils using methods that close attainment gaps
  • Increase the amount of progress made by pupils relative to their starting points
  • Reduce workload involved in effective personalisation
  • Ensure pupils achieve objectives by following a logical process for setting them, sharing them, and planning activities that move pupils towards them
  • Engage with assessment as something they want to do because it makes a difference to their teaching and to pupils’ learning.

Why buy an Optimus Education DIY Training resource?

Outstanding Teaching and Learning: A systematic approach to improvement is part of the Optimus Education D-I-Y (deliver it yourself) training portfolio. Our D-I-Y training packages provide:

  • value for money – training sessions can be delivered multiple times to different groups of staff
  • comprehensive training materials – detailed training plans, presentations, handouts and a variety of practical activities to engage participants are all provided in the package
  • flexibility – training sessions can be customised with case studies, questions or exercises which are specific to your school’s needs
  • excellent quality – the training materials have been written by experienced trainers with expertise in the topic area; you benefit from their knowledge and guidance
  • measurable outcomes – each package includes ways to monitor effectiveness and learning outcomes.

 

Summary of contents

Outstanding Teaching and Learning contains six practical sessions which explore the common features of outstanding lessons and look at progression and personalisation, covering methods designed to raise standards and increase progress for all pupils whilst giving teachers the freedom to define their own development.

  • Raise whole-school achievement
  • Close attainment gaps
  • Increase pupil progress
  • Improve assessment and personalization

Session Breakdown

Training session 1 – Your classroom

Learning Outcomes:

  • Compare different classroom styles and recognise the variety of forms ‘outstanding’ can take
  • Begin to identify the common features of different outstanding classrooms
  • Define the type of classroom you aspire to create

Training session 2 – Planning and activities

Learning Outcomes:

  • Have a clear step by step process for planning a lesson
  • Understand the crucial importance of planning purposeful tasks based on explicit objectives

Training session 3 – Assessment and progress 1: Checking progress and questioning

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the purpose of assessment
  • Have an increased repertoire of assessment strategies at your disposal
  • Be able to use effective questioning to promote learning

Training session 4 – Assessment and progress 2: Keeping progress going

Learning Outcomes:

  • Know how to use assessment as a tool to move pupils on and ensure they make ‘rapid and sustained progress’
  • Know how to challenge all pupils regardless of the speed at which they learn

Training session 5 – Personalisation

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand the reasons for personalisation
  • Have an expanded repertoire of techniques for personalising

Training session 6 – What does this mean for us?

Learning Outcomes:

  • Synthesise and share your view of what outstanding teaching means to you
  • Develop a shared school view of how the learning from these sessions should impact on the school

About the expert

Loic Menzies is Director of the education and youth development organisation, LKMco, where he researches issues that affect young people and works with schools training teachers and delivering improvement programmes.  He was previously Head of History and Social Sciences and Associate Senior Manager at a school in North West London.

Details

  • A4 Ringbinder, c. 64 pages
  • Video clips of lessons, supplied by Classroom Observation Video and Teachers Media, provide stimulus for discussion in each training session. Presentations, handouts and video clips are provided on a DVD-Rom.

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