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Module 1: Curriuclum Impact (Thursday 11 March, 1pm - 3.15pm)
1pm - Key actions to narrow the achievement gap and ensure your curriculum and interventions have impact
- Evidence on how best to narrow the gap: interventions that are equalising or targeted at disadvantage
- Importance of curriculum and interventions: how should we focus our efforts for most impact?
- High quality teaching and high expectations for all pupils: every teacher, every day, every lesson
Rob Coe, Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education and Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation
1.40pm - Lessons from blended learning: a review of what's worked and implications for education in the future
- What does the evidence say?
- It's not what you do, it's the way you do it
- Considerations for successful implementation and delivery of remote learning
Mark Anderson, ICT Evangelist
2.20pm - Building challenge, mastery and engagement
- Low preparation but high impact strategies for accelerating progress for all
- Avoid passivity in your pupils
- Ensure pupils are working at least as hard as their teacher
Claire Gadsby, Educational Consultant and author of Dynamically Different Classrooms
3pm - Breakout groups for discussion, reflections and networking
Module 2: Building a diverse, rich and ambitious curriculum (Tuesday 16 March, 1pm - 3.15pm)
1pm - Build a diverse curriculum that prepares young people for their future
- Who is the curriculum for?
- Why do we need a diverse curriculum?
- Belonging
Alison Kriel, Education Consultant and Founder, AMAYA Trust
1.40pm - Create a culture of constructive feedback, peer review and questioning to build learning
- Focus your energy on the kind of feedback that is proven to work
- Empower pupils to take an active role in the feedback process
- Use questioning to promote engagement and to close gaps in learning
Claire Gadsby, Educational Consultant and author of Dynamically Different Classrooms
2.20pm - Creativity and critical thinking skills
- Understand what creativity is
- Find out how to create the climate for creativity to flourish and which teaching methods work best in the classroom
- Explore examples and develop practical tools to use in every subject of your school curriculum
Professor Bill Lucas, Director, Centre for Real-World Learning
3pm - Primary and secondary breakout groups: curriculum diversity and ambition
Module 3: (Thursday 18 March, 3pm - 5pm)
3pm - Evidence your quality of education
- Curriculum design, implementation and ambition - what are your USPs and are they fit for purpose?
- In practical terms, how do all staff members contribute to the overall Quality of Education judgement?
- Tracking progress and monitoring impact - the five levels of evidence available
Tom Fay, Executive Director of Primary Education, West Yorkshire
3.40pm - Empower and equip subject leaders to bring your curriculum to life
- Curriculum Infrastructure
- The role of the subject lead
- Subject intent and vision
- Tools and practical strategies to facilitate leadership and support the jump from ‘curriculum to classroom'
Lekha Sharma, Vice Principal - Quality of Education, Ark Oval Primary and author of 'Curriculum to Classroom'
4.20pm - Taking learning beyond the classroom walls
- What is Physically Active Learning (PAL)?
- Why is PAL especially important now?
- Top take-away tips for PAL with children and teachers
Ian Holmes and Bryn Llewellyn, Co-Directors of Move & Learn (CIC)
PLUS access to recorded session:
Exploring principles for cross-curricular literacy
- Building a rationale
- Examples and exploration: vocabulary, challenging texts, oracy
- Ideas for progression
Bob Cox, Education Consultant and Author
Module 4: (Tuesday 23 March, 3pm - 5pm)
3pm - Build and monitor your subject department - suitable for primary and secondary
- Identify the key steps in developing a coaching model
- Develop a strategy to ‘even out’ variance in teacher performance across your team
- Recognise the value of ‘skilled support’ to help drive school improvement
Steve Garnett, CPD Provider and Author
3.40pm - Curriculum Design: Measure what you value, don't value what you measure
- A series of provocations to encourage delegates to consider what the purpose of school actually is
- Practical ways to ensure your curriculum is aligned with your values
- Strategies and approaches to ensure coherence across the entire school curriculum – in and outside of the classroom
Jennie Giovanelli, Headteacher, Kingsthorpe College
4.20pm - Evidence-informed teaching
- How to ensure your subject teaching is evidence informed
- Applying strategies from research to reduce workload and increase impact
- Effective tools to keep on top of research and evidence in education
Amjad Ali, Try This Teaching