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SUMMARY:Compassionate Curriculum for Thriving Communities
DESCRIPTION:Suitable for primary curriculum leaders\, principals or consultants. If you are a primary subject leader\, a curriculum phase leader or a senior leader responsible for overall school curriculum design and implementation\, this workshop is for you! \nWhy consider this course? \nAn opportunity to: \n• Develop some key questions in order to be able to explore with your school community\, key aspects of your curriculum purpose. \n• Consider examples of how schools (from a range of contexts) and a Trust have approached the redesign of their curriculum from the UK and internationally using a curriculum framework \n• Understand the implications of curriculum and pedagogic intentions \nWhat will I learn from the programme? \n• A shared understanding of ‘curriculum’\, how it shapes every aspect of school life\, develops character\, and enables all children and young people to make good choices. \n• How to analyse the extent to which your curriculum presents an ambitious\, enriching and equitable education for all children and young people. \n• How to build a picture of your subject and effectively monitor your subject/curriculum for improvement \nWho is delivering the session? \nNarinder Gill\, School Improvement Director for Elevate Multi-academy Trust and Strategic director for the Curriculum Foundation. Head teachers from the Trust will join to share practical case studies of how they have worked innovatively to create a world class curriculum based on values and principles\, securing for their pupils\, key competencies for learning and life. \nHow will I engage with the programme? \nThe sessions will be a blend of formal presentation\, practical activities\, discussion points\, case studies shared from leaders in the field \nClick here to book your place via Eventbrite.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/compassionate-curriculum-for-thriving-communities/
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CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:How to Review\, Evaluate and Support Effective Governance
DESCRIPTION:This module will examine the need for an effective and accountable governance structure\, how to review and evaluate the impact of governance within different school settings. \nThe participant will gain an understanding of: \n\nhow the governance structures in different settings hold school leaders to account.\nhow governors can be supported to fulfil their role effectively.\nthe importance of the Nolan principles in guiding the work of governance.\nhow to evaluate the effectiveness of the governance structure\n\n  \nCourse leader – Steve Hodsman \nFollowing a successful career in the police\, Steve retired in 2016. Involved in school governance since 2010\, he was appointed to the Board of a large MAT in 2014. Becoming Chair of his school trust in 2015\, Steve led major changes in trust development\, successfully re-structuring both Trustees and Members at the trust. Having undertaken a complete re-focussing of trust governance and leadership in 2016\, he continues to deliver long term educational and financial sustainability. \nAs Chair of one of the highest performing multi academy trusts in England\, Steve delivers impactive school and MAT leadership across 52 academies. Steve is actively involved in working with Regional Schools Commissioners and Academy Ambassadors to promote trust governance at national and regional levels. \nParticipants will be asked to come to the session with an exemplar of an intervention or improvement strategy in which they have been involved. More information will be provided on signing up to the course. \n\nBook your place on Eventbrite here.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/how-to-review-evaluate-and-support-effective-governance-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:Effective Leadership of Curriculum and Assessment
DESCRIPTION:The first of the two half-day courses is for primary and secondary headteachers\, senior and middle leaders in schools who design and implement curriculum and assessment. It is also intended for those who advise on curriculum\, education advisers\, LA advisers\, MAT CEOs. \nDesigning a curriculum means establishing the Intent (Values and Vision)\, Implementation (Pedagogy and Assessment) and Impact (Pupils’ Progress and Learning Standards). To do this\, we identify what works best in the context of each school and its pupil profile. \nWhat will I learn from this course? \nThis course focuses on Intent and Implementation. We outline curriculum mapping\, sequencing\, and assessment within the context of challenges faced by schools; students’ learning gaps and mental well- being. Through a focus on case studies using a variety of adaptive teaching strategies and techniques\, including digital tools\, we look at how schools strengthen pupils’ ‘knowledge and skills recall’\, so they can achieve their full academic potential. Strengthening primary and secondary schools’ formative assessment systems through ‘powerful teacher feedback’ for pupils is key. This enables pupils to take responsibility for their own learning and to move away from right/wrong answers towards cognitive process and self-reflection. \nMost importantly\, we examine how schools fully integrate skills into the knowledge- led curriculum\, thereby ensuring that all pupils develop oracy\, critical and conceptual thinking\, problem solving and reasoning skills in line with the NI CCEA\, Welsh Curriculum\, and the National Curriculum. \nHow will we arrive at this? \nA practical handbook with template\, including a curriculum template\, accompanies the course. This is a unique cross nation collaboration as English and Welsh Primary and secondary school leaders contribute to the workshop through practical case studies. They showcase how they make the theoretical concepts underlying curriculum mapping\, such as ‘sequencing’ and ‘interleaving’ work for them. We illustrate how we can construct a knowledge and skills- based approach to learning that benefits all primary and secondary pupils. We will also hear from school pupils about how they evidence their progress over time\, resulting from the impact of teacher feedback. \nBest practice in teaching/ learning /assessment and Interactive resources\, as well as digital learner profiles are discussed through “break out group chats”. Our aim: to ensure the curriculum is diverse\, inclusive\, and equitable\, all pupil groups’ needs are met\, with ample opportunity for students’ cultural capital. \nWho is leading this course? \nThe course leader is Meena Kumari Wood\, author of the popular ‘Secondary Curriculum Transformed; Enabling All to Achieve’ (Wood and Haddon\, Routledge 2021). The book has led to a series of training webinars in UK\, Northern Ireland\, Dubai and India and features on the core reading list for the MEd in Educational Leadership (University of Birmingham). She has hosted educational webinars and published articles and blogs for SchoolsWeek\, Teach Secondary\, Chartered College\, Edge Foundation and RSA and is currently writing a third book on inspection and school improvement. In addition\, she is a keynote speaker at Edu-Conferences\, including\, Education and Training Inspectorate(NI) British Schools in the Middle East\, (BSME)\, RSA\, Foundation of Educational Development (FED) and for Mary Myatt&Co. \nMeena Wood was a former HMI Ofsted\, Local Authority Adviser\, Principal of an Adult College\, and Principal of a Secondary Academy and is now Honorary Fellow of Education Leadership Academy (University of Birmingham) and KHDA inspector (Emirates). \nMeena is a widely experienced International Educational Consultant\, Author\, and Trainer. In the UK working with academies and MATs\, including Alternative Provision providers\, conducting reviews of curriculum and assessment\, the quality of education\, peer reviews\, instructional coaching\, inspection\, and governance. In addition\, she supports British and International Schools in the Middle East (Dubai). \nPre-course reading \nA copy of the book ‘Secondary Curriculum Transformed’ will be provided as part of the course materials. It is highly recommended that course participants are familiar with it\, as we refer to appendices and models within the book. The relevant parts will be signposted for participants before the course. \n  \nBook your place via Eventbrite here
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/effective-leadership-of-curriculum-and-assessment-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:Assessing the Context for Organisational Improvement
DESCRIPTION:This module aims to focus on key factors which influence the professional motivation of staff. \nThe programme will be particularly useful for those considering accreditation for the Senior Associate level of the AoEA as well as those working at Associate level who wish to develop their knowledge and skills in assessing and creating an organisational environment in which staff are enthusiastically motivated to seek high standards and sustained improvement. \nWhat is the problem we are trying to solve? \nMost of us will have come across highly successful organisations or departments where there is a keen sense of commitment to working with colleagues to achieve high outcomes. Many of us will also have come across organisations where there is a vagueness about the roles and objectives and low levels of structure and commitment. How can we assess or analyse the ‘Context for Organisational Improvement’ (COI) that leads to high performance or provides an indicator of potential decline? The AoEA has used its experience of school improvement coupled with a review of relevant leadership research to establish a way of assessing the Context for Organisational Improvement. It provides another way of analysing working relationships in leadership teams and promote discussion of factors which facilitate or impede improvement. \nWhat is the Context for Organisational Improvement?  \nThe context for organisation improvement relates to key factors which influence the professional motivation of staff. The factors can be analysed into a number of dimensions which provide an indicator of how staff feel about working in the organisation. The way in which leaders carry out their role has a vital influence on the context. \nWho is delivering? \nThe programme will be delivered by Peter Parish\, Les Walton and Ian Lane \nPeter Parish was formerly Director of Operations for Northern Education and was involved with educational project management activities including support for the establishment of a Multi-Academy Trust and academy conversions. He previously led a local authority School Improvement Service. During this time the Council was awarded Beacon Council status for ‘Tackling School Failure’. He became Head of Planning\, Commissioning and Quality Assurance in the local authority’s Children’s Services. He has much experience of contextual factors which lead to school improvement. \nLes Walton (CBE) has vast experience as a headteacher\, Director of Education\, Chief Executive and Principal of an FE College. He has led major change programmes including the reorganisation of a school system within a metropolitan borough\, the outsourcing of an education service within a large District Council and the merger of Further Education Colleges. As Director of Education\, he achieved Beacon Status for ‘tackling school failure’. Les has played a key role in providing advice to government agencies such as the YPLA and the Education Funding Agency. He has been involved in strategic interventions in schools and MATs to address governance concerns. He has a long-standing interest in leadership and quality systems. \nWhilst Ian Lane was headteacher of an inner-city secondary school\, the school was twice recognized as one of the most improved specialist schools nationally and awarded a School Achievement Award for successive years of sustained improvement. He also has past experience as part of the advisory service as a Senior Adviser\, as a School Improvement Partner\, National Challenge Adviser and accredited Ofsted Inspector. He also qualified as a professional coach. He was appointed Director of School Improvement in the same LA with oversight for Primary\, Secondary and Special Education. More recently Ian has worked as an interim CEO of a Primary MAT and then as CEO of a Secondary MAT\, whilst also undertaking some independent work as an adviser with a number of schools\, MATs and Las. \nWhat will I get from the programme? \nYou will: \n• Understand what is meant by Context for Organisational Improvement. \n• Consider the dimensions of COI. \n• Understand the relationship between leadership and COI. \n• Be able to identify the key features in the cultural landscape of your workplace. \n• Appreciate how organisational culture influences work-place COI. \n• Have assessed your own work-place COI. \n• Be capable of establishing systems for on-going measures of COI. \n• Be able to design strategies to drive up individual COI dimensions \nPrior to the session\, participants will have the opportunity to complete a survey to rate their perception of their context for organisational improvement. \nClick here to book your place via Eventbrite.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/assessing-the-context-for-organisational-improvement-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:Evaluating the Impact of Curriculum on Pupils’ Learning
DESCRIPTION:This course follows on from Effective Leadership of Curriculum and Assessment\, which you can attend on either the 21st September\, 22nd February or 9th May. It is intended for both primary and secondary headteachers\, senior and middle leaders who want to ensure that all pupils benefit from a good quality of education and optimise their learning and outcomes. It is also intended for those who advise on curriculum; education advisers\, MAT CEOs. \nWhat will I learn from this course? \nWhat do schools gain from ‘learning walks and lesson observations linked to grades of teachers and labelling’? Do these consistently lead to an improving quality of teaching and assessment? There is little evidence to suggest that this model of quality assurance has a positive impact on pupils’ learning and outcomes. \nMoving away from a ‘tick box’ judgemental mindset\, we gather valid and reliable evidence on pupils’ learning. How we optimise our pupils’ progress and outcomes is more important now\, than ever\, in view of the legacy of sickness absences and the gaps in pupils’ knowledge and skills \nPPR lies at the heart of the school’s educational provision. It establishes a culture of intrinsic motivation and professional development for staff through instructional coaching. \nHow will we arrive at this? \nA practical handbook with templates and case studies accompanies the course\, including a PPR template for advisers and school leaders. Interactive sessions are supported through group work. \nWe refer to school case studies with live contributions from both primary and secondary leaders that illustrate how an instructional coaching model for staff can facilitate continuous professional development and result in a positive impact on pupils’ learning. In addition\, we focus on supporting those pupils not achieving their potential\, as these are identified and supported through this process. \nWho is leading this course? \nThe course leader is Meena Kumari Wood\, author of the popular ‘Secondary Curriculum Transformed; Enabling All to Achieve’ (Wood and Haddon\, Routledge 2021). The book has led to a series of training webinars in UK\, Northern Ireland\, Dubai and India and features on the core reading list for the MEd in Educational Leadership (University of Birmingham). She also publishes articles for SchoolsWeek and Teach Secondary and is a key note speaker at Edu-Conferences. \nMeena Wood was a former HMI Ofsted\, Local Authority Adviser\, Principal of an Adult College and Principal of a Secondary Academy and is now Honorary Fellow of Education Leadership Academy (University of Birmingham) and KHDA inspector (Emirates). \nMeena is a widely experienced International Educational Consultant and Trainer. In the UK she works with academies and MATs\, including Alternative Provision providers\, with reviews of curriculum and assessment; the quality of education\, peer reviews\, instructional coaching\, inspection and governance. In addition\, she supports British and International Schools in the Middle East (Dubai). \nPre-course reading \nA copy of the book ‘Secondary Curriculum Transformed’ is provided as part of the course materials prior to the workshop. It is highly recommended that course participants are familiar with it\, as we refer to appendices and models within the book. The relevant parts will be signposted for participants before the course. \nBook your place on Eventbrite here.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/evaluating-the-impact-of-curriculum-on-pupils-learning/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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