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SUMMARY:Working in Concert with the School's Leadership Team
DESCRIPTION:This module will focus on how role of the advisor interacts with that of the Senior Leadership Team and is influenced by the context and drivers for that work. It will explore how advisers can analyse how SLT functions and consider implications for improvement journey.  It will further explore the significance of agreed and co constructed milestones and building in sustainable self-improvement. \nThe participant will: \n\nUnderstand how to use facilitating leadership skills without compromising the roles and responsibilities of Senior Leaders and Governors/Trustees\, and why this matters.\nHow the adviser applies situational leadership theory and skills to match the urgency and complexity of the improvement context\, drawing upon relevant examples.\nHow advisers support and challenge so that school improvement is evident and sustained.\n\nThe course will be led by Eric Halton and Martyn Beales. \nEric has a teaching and leadership background improving schools to outstanding provision. He joined Hampshire LA where he led improvement teams in coastal communities. He managed a substantial Professional Learning programme and brokered support to other Local Authorities and Multi Academy Trusts\, before leading a large Primary Education team for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. \nMartyn is a School Improvement Manager at Hampshire County Council\, and has been an accredited Associate of the AoEA since 2018. As a headteacher\, his primary school received an Outstanding Ofsted report\, and he has now been working in school improvement for two years. \nBook your place on Eventbrite here.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/working-in-concert-with-the-schools-leadership-team/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:Coaching 3: Advanced Coaching for Advisers and Leaders
DESCRIPTION:Based on best international business practice\, but rooted in education\, the AoEA Coaching offer consists of five\, half-day\, sessions over the academic year\, which are designed to take participants from an introductory stage to systemic organisational approaches either at school\, LA\, MAT\, regional or national level. All sessions will be a mix of theory and practice and build on highly successful and well received courses run over the last two years. \nThis session will build on levels 1 and 2 and look to forward and deepen coaching practice by introducing advanced coaching techniques. It will also mark a subtle change\, which demands that thinking moves towards how best to introduce coaching into the team setting\, with a view to becoming part of a small-scale system. \n  \nWe will consider your coaching approach and thoughts\, and challenge you in the practical sessions. We will explore: chemistry; the coaching state; co-active approaches; return to OSKAR and ZOUD; discuss beginnings\, middles\, and endings; intuition; body language; and BAGs. \n  \nWho is delivering the course? \nTony Markowski and Éamonn Whelan will be leading the programme. Both enjoyed successful careers in education and now advise national and regional boards\, MATs\, LAs\, Headteachers and their teams. They are accredited Executive Coaches\, therapeutic counsellors and Senior Associates of the Association of Educational Advisers\, on whose Development Board they sit. \nWhat goes on in the sessions? \nThe model is a blend of formal presentation\, question and answer sessions\, case study review and supported practical activity. As well as a general introduction to the principles and characteristics of coaching\, participants will be offered tools and strategies to support leaders and staff\, at all levels. \nWhat happens if I miss a session? \nThere will be opportunities to catch up between sessions. Information is available from the AoEA administration team – please email info@aoea.co.uk or call the office on 0191 820 3114. \nThis session will build on Levels 1&2 and look to forward and deepen coaching practice by introducing advanced coaching techniques. It will also mark a subtle change\, which demands that thinking moves towards how best to introduce coaching in the team setting\, with a view to becoming part of a small scale system. \nWe will consider your coaching approach and thoughts\, challenge you in the practical sessions\, consider chemistry\, the coaching state\, co-active approaches\, return to OSKAR and ZOUD\, discuss beginnings\, middles and ends\, intuition\, body language and BAGs. \nTwo participants will feedback on background reading designed to extend and enhance learning. \nAll sessions will be pragmatic\, pacy and outcome focused\, so that participants go away confident in a new set of practical skills they can apply between sessions. We will ask participants to keep journals of ongoing practice that will feed into their case studies for Levels 4&5. \n\nClick here to book your place via Eventbrite.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/coaching-3-advanced-coaching-for-advisers-and-leaders/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:EduKIT: No Fear of Flying: Attempts at Exceptional Practice in Autism Education
DESCRIPTION:Marie Neave was brought up and educated in Northern Ireland in a segregated system that continues to influence her passion for equality. Having trained as a teacher in London\, Marie taught history in deprived areas of southeast London before accepting a position as Head of three PRUs. She subsequently became an advisor to all 18 Kent PRUs\, then for secondary education in London. \nMarie is currently Executive Head at Drumbeat a large\, three site SEND school specialising in autism education. She is an active and enthusiastic Challenge Partner and Senior Associate at the AoEA. \nThe Edukit will be an interview of Marie to explore recent developments at Marie’s school\, Drumbeat\, which is aiming to provide exceptional provision for its students. The AoEA Keeping in Touch meeting is a way for members to listen to guest speakers\, share knowledge\, best practice and have a forum where you can discuss with your peers any areas of concern or support you require. \nOur members will automatically receive calendar invites to each EduKIT event. If you are not a member of the AoEA\, get in touch with us at info@aoea.co.uk to find out more about EduKITs and becoming a member of the AoEA. \nClick here to book your place via Eventbrite.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/edukit-education-keeping-in-touch-meeting-29th-february-2024/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:EduKIT
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SUMMARY:Using an Organisational Development Approach to School Improvement
DESCRIPTION:The organisational development approach is for advisers and school leaders who wish to support high and low performing organisations to be self-managing and self-sustaining. \nThis training programme assumes the participant has expertise in supporting and advising schools\, is a school improvement expert\, and has a deep understanding of governance and leadership. We expect applicants to wish to develop high level skills and knowledge of how organisations are developed. \nWhat is the problem we are trying to solve? \nThere are still too many schools and multi-academy trusts that become vulnerable\, either in terms of standards\, financial strength or governance. Increasingly\, schools and trusts need support to be self-sustaining in their ability to develop and grow. They also need to be able to predict what is coming\, rather than simply react to external forces. \nThe pace of change in education is probably faster than it has ever been. Keeping pace with it or\, better still\, anticipating change is a vital ingredient for a proactive leader. There is a need for advisers who have the specialist skills and resilience to help build capacity and\, in the end\, ‘be not necessary’. \nWhat is an organisational development approach? \nOrganisational development is a planned\, systematic approach to improving organisational effectiveness by: \n• achieving the desired goals of high performance in an organisation through the involvement of its people \n• aligning strategy\, people and processes. \nWho is delivering? \nLes Walton CBE \nLes has a national reputation for establishing and developing numerous organisations. He has founded\, led or supported the development of Schools North East\, Tyne Metropolitan College\, the Young People’s Learning Agency\, the Northern Education Trust and the Association of Education Advisers\, building many of the organisations into highly regarded multi-million pound organisations. \nKevin McDermid \nKevin has over 25 years of senior leadership experience in secondary schools\, including two headships of inner-city comprehensive schools and the headship of a sixth form college. He was Teaching Awards Head Teacher of the Year for the North-East & Cumbria in 2004-5. Kevin is also an accredited School Improvement Partner and National Challenge Adviser; over the last ten years he has gained extensive experience as an independent consultant working with five academy chains and several LA’s and multi-academy trusts across the North of England \nWhat will I get from the programme? \nOur model of organisational effectiveness provides an adviser or school leader with a framework to support developing organisations. \nYou will: \n• learn how to apply PESTLE analysis and understand the impact of external factors on an organisation; \n• critically evaluate the design of the curriculum and curriculum-led financial planning; \n• address system weakness by applying organisational development tools; \n• ensure roles and responsibilities are effectively focused; \n• evaluate how values and leadership styles impact on performance; \n• use the Context for Organisational Improvement (COI) evaluation framework; \n• apply a variety of measurements of success and performance indicators. \nBook your place on our Organisational Development course here!
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/using-an-organisational-development-approach-to-school-improvement/
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\nClick here to book your place via Eventbrite.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/effective-leadership-of-curriculum-and-assessment/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:Using a Quality Systems Approach to School Improvement
DESCRIPTION:The quality systems approach is for advisers and school leaders who wish to work at the highest level in education systems improvement. This training programme assumes the participant has expertise in supporting and advising schools\, is a school improvement expert\, and has a deep understanding of governance and leadership. We expect applicants to wish to develop high level skills and knowledge of how organisations are transformed. \nWhat is the problem we are trying to solve? \nOne of the major problems in our education system is not understanding why results vary in a particular school or within groups of schools. We want to know how we can move towards the ‘ideal state’\, in which schools are in control of their processes and\, therefore\, achieve consistently higher outputs. \nSchools and MATs are also increasingly interested in a quality-systems approach to long-term success through continuous improvement and intelligent feedback\, rather than quick fixes for external inspection. \nWhat is a quality systems approach? \nQuality systems is a way of supporting systems leaders in ensuring that their systems are fit for purpose and continuously improved through carefully managed modifications responding to continuous feedback. \nWho is delivering? \nLes Walton CBE \nLes has a national reputation for leading interventions in very challenging circumstances. He has applied the quality systems approach within schools\, FE\, local authorities\, national education agencies and the private sector. His own school was once described by the British Deming Association as the ‘best example of total quality management in education’. \nTom Grieveson \nTom has extensive experience of school and system improvement and inspection. He worked as a senior HMI (Her Majesty’s Inspector) with Ofsted within the North-East Yorkshire and Humberside senior leadership team. Amongst a range of responsibilities\, Tom has direct accountability for managing and deploying the regional team of HMI and additional inspectors to deliver inspections in the region. He has consistently led some of the most high-profile section 5 and section 8 inspections in several parts of England and gained extensive expertise in working with maintained schools and academies in Ofsted categories of concern. His school inspection work began in 1996 and this extended to the inspection of local authorities in 2004. Prior to joining HMI\, Tom was a headteacher in two schools covering a twelve-year period and held senior positions in local authority school improvement teams including as head of service. \nWhat will I get from the programme? \nYou will: \n1. be introduced to powerful demonstrations\, including the ‘Red Bead Experiment’\, which will de-construct how management influences individual performance; \n2. learn how to use ‘Deep Dive’ quality techniques such as ‘Ishikawa’ and ‘Value Analysis;’ \n3. be introduced to the Kaizen approach to continuous incremental improvement and how small\, often imperceptible changes add up to substantial changes over time; \n4. examine WIN-WIN and consider how to build quality into our stems and optimise their effectiveness; \n5. examine a case study\, addressing how advisers can support organisations that require significant intervention. \nFinally\, we will ask the question – is doing nothing sometimes the best answer? \nBook your place on our Quality Systems course here!
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/using-a-quality-systems-approach-to-school-improvement/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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SUMMARY:EduKIT: Andy Hargreaves talks about The Age of Identity
DESCRIPTION:Professor Andy Hargreaves will be leading this EduKIT. He toured the UK talking about his new book\, The Age of Identity. If you did not have the chance to see him in person\, this would be a great session to attend and be able to ask your questions. \nWe are living in a time when identity is all the rage – literally as well as figuratively. How do we recognize and include all young people’s identities and honestly address the injustices and exclusions that many young people and their families face without getting drawn into culture wars? How can we do the right thing without fear of saying or doing the wrong thing?\nAndy will introduce his controversial new book with Dennis Shirley on The Age of Identity. It affirms that identity is an issue for everyone\, not just for “the others”. We should help young people develop positive senses of self and identity from the earliest years of school\, guide them through their different stages and life passages\, reach out across the generations\, and build bridges rather than put up walls between different identity groups.\nBut if we’re not careful\, we’ll fall into a massive identity trap. What we need is leadership that is courageous\, and yet collective and close to the action rather than heroic and remote. We need Leadership from the Middle\, as Andy’s other new book says\, not mandates from the top. \nAndy Hargreaves is Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa\, Research Professor at Boston College in the US\, and Honorary Professor at Swansea University. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Education\, former President of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement (2018-2020)\, adviser to the First Minister of Scotland & former Adviser to the Premier of Ontario.\nAndy is Canada’s 2023 Professor of the Year. He has published 35 books and has 8 Outstanding Writing Awards. An exceptional keynote speaker and workshop leader\, he has delivered invited addresses in more than 50 countries. He has been honoured in the UK\, Canada\, and the US for services to public education and educational research and is ranked by Education Week as the #16 scholar with the most influence on the US education policy debate. \nThe AoEA Education Keeping in Touch meetings (EduKITs) are for our members to listen to guest speakers\, share knowledge and best practice whilst also providing a forum for peer discussion & support. They occur fortnightly at 5.30pm Thursdays during term time. Reserve your place now. Look forward to seeing you there. \nClick here to book your place via Eventbrite.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/edukit-andy-hargreaves-talks-about-the-age-of-identity/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:EduKIT
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SUMMARY:Assessing the Context for Organisational Improvement
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\n\n\nWho is this for? \nThis 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/
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\nClick here to book your place via Eventbrite.
URL:https://aoea.co.uk/event/effective-leadership-of-curriculum-and-assessment-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Learning
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