ECT Subject Specific Enhancement MATHS 2021-22

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We are keen to ensure that all Early Career teachers have the opportunity to develop networks of subject specific enhancement to supplement their work on the Early Career Framework.  This training is open to all ECTs regardless of their ECF provider; we aim to be able to provide strong subject specific networks across our region.

The subject specific enhancement sessions for MATHS are being delivered by Matrix Maths Hub Herts who will also be managing bookings for these sessions.  Do not book on our website but please click the button below.

FULL DETAILS AND BOOKINGS HERE

Work Group Sessions will take place as follows:

Session 1 – Tuesday 23.11.21
1:30pm – 4:30pm (Face to face)

Session 2 – Monday 10.01.22
2:00pm – 4:00pm (online)

Session 3 – Thursday 10.02.22
2:00pm – 4:00pm (online)

Session 4 – Wednesday 30.03.22
1:30pm – 4:30pm (Face to face)

Session 5 – Tuesday 17.05.22
2:00pm – 4:00pm (online)

Session 6 – Monday 04.07.22
2:00pm – 4:00pm (online)

Areas of Focus

For full details and to book this programme please CLICK HERE

Who is this course for?

This programme is designed for secondary early career teachers (those in their first or second year of teaching).

 

 

Emerging Middle Leaders 2021-22

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This programme comprises six twilight sessions run throughout the school year. There is a celebration event for all ‘graduates’ at the end of the year.

You will be required to attend the following face to face twilight sessions which run from 4.00pm to 5.30pm.

Session 1 Wednesday 20th October 2021
at St Albans Girls’ School		 Management or leadership?
Understanding leadership styles		 Julia Pipes
Session 2 Monday, 29th November 2021
at Sandringham School		 Leading effective meetings and managing people Mark Allday
Session 3 Tuesday, 18th January 2022
at Chessbrook ESC		 Supporting students with SEND using Pupil Profile data Andy Mirkovic and Jess King
Session 4 Wednesday 9th February 2022
at Sir John Lawes School		 Future pathways.
Job applications and interview technique.		 Gweirydd Williams
Session 5 Monday 14th March 2022
at Beaumont School		 Application of data Jonathan Mountstevens
Session 6 Wednesday 11th May 2022
at St Albans Girls’ School		 Coaching and unlocking potential
Celebration Event		 Tessa Miles

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at those aspiring to middle leadership and who wish to develop leadership qualities.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

This programme will support you in:

  • Reflecting on your personal strengths
  • Developing skills of leadership
  • Exploring your own vision and values

Areas of focus

The final programme will be made available at the start of the course, however areas of focus will include:

  • Management or leadership? Understanding leadership styles
  • Leading successful change: Effective team management
  • The nuts and bolts: Action planning for change
  • Future pathways. Job applications and interview technique
  • Numbers! Target setting and whole school finance
  • Emotional intelligence, managing yourself and others

Meet the facilitators:

Facilitators on this course come from across our lead partner schools.

What did others think?

“I have learned so many new techniques that I am already trying out in order to improve my own leadership skills.”

“The middle leader course allowed me to reflect on what type of leader I want to be and start to identify my own strengths and weaknesses in leadership style.”

 

ECT Subject Specific Enhancement GEOGRAPHY 2021-22

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We are keen to ensure that all Early Career teachers have the opportunity to develop networks of subject specific enhancement to supplement their work on the Early Career Framework.  This training is open to all ECTs regardless of their ECF provider; we aim to be able to provide strong subject specific networks across our region.

The subject specific enhancement sessions for GEOGRAPHY will take place as detailed below. The method of delivery will be either face-to-face at Sandringham School or a virtual meeting which will be confirmed prior to each session.

  • SESSION 1: Monday 15th November 2021 – this will be a google meet
  • SESSION 2: Monday 24th  January 2022
  • SESSION 3: Monday, 9th May 2022

Areas of Focus

The sessions outlined below aim to provide support for Early Career Teachers as they start and hone and refine their teaching skills, with a focus on:

  • teaching and learning strategies in geography
  • effective modelling and feedback
  • the development of schemes of learning that facilitate knowledge-building, progression, and mastery

Three sessions providing essential subject specific support in Year 1 of your Early Career journey.

Session 1:  Lesson Planning: The Structure of Geography Lessons

Session 2:  Effective Feedback in Geography – Pupil Progress

Session 3: Curriculum Planning: Sequencing, Thresholds and Assessment

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers

Meet the facilitator

Neil Miller, Director of Learning: Geography, Sandringham School

Neil has a 1st (Hons) Bsc Geography from Kingston University and a MA in Terrorism, Security and Society from Kings College, London. He is entering his 6th year of teaching, and his 4th year as a head of department at Sandringham School. He has experience of teaching all key stages, including both physical and human geography at A Level. His subject specialism sits within the sphere of human geography, specifically human systems and geopolitics.

 

ECT Subject Specific Enhancement PHYSICAL EDUCATION 2021-22

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We are keen to ensure that all Early Career teachers have the opportunity to develop networks of subject specific enhancement to supplement their work on the Early Career Framework.  This training is open to all ECTs regardless of their ECF provider; we aim to be able to provide strong subject specific networks across our region.

The subject specific enhancement sessions for PHYSICAL EDUCATION will take place as detailed below.  It is intended that these meetings will be face to face at Beaumont School.

  • SESSION 1: Thursday 18th November 2021
  • SESSION 2: Wednesday 23rd March 2022
  • SESSION 3: Tuesday, 24th May 2022

Areas of Focus

To provide ECTs with an overview of the bursary-led training, support and resources available to them as provided by the National Centre for Computing Education, which will include bespoke training sessions covering tailored content relevant to their self-identified areas of development.

Session 1: 

Three sessions providing essential subject specific support in Year 1 of your Early Career journey.

Session 1 to include:

  • Going it alone – reflections of the term so far
  • Pedagogy and PE – Implementation and Impact
  • T and L ideas for practical and theory PE lessons
  • Needs analysis in preparation for next sessions

Session 2: A 90 minute bespoke training session based on identified needs from previous needs analysis

Session 3: A 90 minute bespoke training session based on identified needs from previous needs analysis

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers

Meet the facilitator

Andy Tolley, Head of PE, Beaumont School

Andy has been teaching Physical Education since 2004 and has been a Head of Department since 2010. He has taught across London in the boroughs of Sutton, Hounslow and Croydon, before moving back to Hertfordshire and taking the position of Head of PE at Beaumont in 2015.

During Andy’s career he has taken on roles such as Gifted and Talented co ordinator, Deputy Head of Department and ITT mentor. He has collaborated with the Youth Sports Trust and Sport England on various school based projects, with contributions to published materials to enhance teaching, learning and assessment in PE nationally.

He has also worked with St Mary’s, Brunel and Hertfordshire Universities contributing to their delivery of secondary PE courses to undergraduates and PGCE students. This has included leading subject specific sessions for trainees and NQT’s.

 

Primary ECT & NQT+1 Training 2021-22

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Please make a single booking for this programme.  In your course confirmation you will receive a link to select which sessions you would like to attend.  Invoicing will be based on the number of sessions booked/attended as per below pricing.

Please note Making Music will now take place on 17th June 2022.

ECT Subject Specific Enhancement MFL 2021-22

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We are keen to ensure that all Early Career teachers have the opportunity to develop networks of subject specific enhancement to supplement their work on the Early Career Framework.  This training is open to all ECTs regardless of their ECF provider; we aim to be able to provide strong subject specific networks across our region.

The subject specific enhancement programme for MFL will all now be delivered as face-to-face sessions as below:

  • SESSION 1: Tuesday, 23rd November 2021 at Roundwood Park School
  • SESSION 2: Tuesday, 22nd March 2022 at Sandringham School
  • SESSION 3: Tuesday, 7th June 2022 at Roundwood Park School

Areas of Focus

Three sessions providing essential subject specific support in Year 1 of your Early Career journey.

Session 1:  Skill progression at KS3

Session 2:  Blended Learning in the MFL classroom

Session 3:  Stretch and challenge at GCSE

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers

Meet the facilitators

Laura Davies, Head of MFL, Roundwood Park School

Laura is a Head of MFL at Roundwood Park School.  She has been a Professional Coach at the school since 2011 and has shaped the development of a coaching culture at Roundwood Park School.  She is committed to her MFL outreach work in her role as an SLE and leads the ‘Second Specialism Training’ for secondary teachers in the area.  She believes that coaching skills are key to developing staff at all levels.

Fleur Baikie, Head of MFL, Sandringham School

Fleur is Director of Learning – MFL at Sandringham School.  She has previously worked as Head of MFL and IB coordinator (Senior Leader for 6th Form) in an international school in the UAE and is passionate about staff development.  She is a coach and has trained several trainee teachers across a variety of pathways.

  

 

 

 

NQT+1 Secondary Education Recovery Programme 2021-22

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This programme is a valuable way of supporting the NQT +1 colleagues in your school through the use of some of your Education Recovering funding. This programme has been designed in response to the challenging two years that this cohort of teachers have experienced in terms of training and NQT experience.

These sessions are designed to offer invaluable support to NQT+1 and allow them to explore how they can embed strong teaching and learning practices within their classroom, consider where their career path may go and also how they can use academic research to continue their understanding of pedagogy and how it can impact their professional development.

The twilights will take place from 4pm to 5.30pm and will be delivered either virtually or face to face in accordance with COVID guidelines at the time.  Details will be sent before each session.

Who is this course for?

Recently qualified teachers (NQT+1s).

The course is aimed at those who have successfully completed their NQT induction and are now working within schools, but without the mentoring framework so valued by NQTs.

Attendance to all of the following 8 sessions is ideal however we understand that committing to all 8 may be prohibitive.  Please contact laura.lusardi@albantsh.co.uk if you wish to discuss a more flexible package.

Tuesday
28th September 2021		 Session 1: Developing independent learners Tessa Miles
Wednesday,
20th October 2021		 Session 2: Embedding classroom practice Ben Garcia
Thursday
11th November  2021		 Session 3: Differentiation Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND
Monday
17th January 2022		 Session 4: Retrieval practice Beth Fraser and Caroline Michel
Tuesday
22nd February 2022		 Session 5: Career directions Athena Pitsillis
Tuesday
22nd March 2022		 Session 6: Communication for students with complex needs Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND
Thursday
21st April 2022		 Session 7: Whole school literacy and numeracy Melissa Hall and Tom Way
Wednesday
15th June 2022		 Session 8: Using educational research to support professional development Karen Roskilly, Research School

Meet the Facilitators

Session 1: Tessa Miles, Assistant Director of Teaching School: Professional Learning at Sandringham School

Session 2: Ben Garcia, Assistant Headteacher, Sir John Lawes School

Session 3: Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND – Live Zoom session

Session 4: Beth Fraser and Caroline Michel, Sir John Lawes School

Session 5: Athena Pitsillis, Assistant Headteacher, Sandringham School

Session 6: Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND – Live Zoom session

Session 7: Melissa Hall, St Albans Girls’ School & Tom Way, Harlington Upper School, Bedford

Session 8: Karen Roskilly, Sandringham Research School

OLEVI Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme 2021-22

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This bespoke Olevi programme for teaching assistants focuses on a range of aspects of teaching and learning such as challenge, engagement, assessment, differentiation, questioning and planning. There are facilitated practical sessions and lesson observations at the host school, with linked practical tasks back in the participant’s own school to apply what they learn.

 

 

This course comprises 5 half day sessions as follows:

  • Session 1: Thursday, 11th November 2021, 9.00-11.30 at Sandringham School
  • Session 2: Tuesday, 23rd November 2021, 9.00-11.30 at Sandringham School
  • Session 3: Thursday, 13th January 2022, 9.00-11.30 at St Albans Girls’ School
  • Session 4: Monday, 24th January 2022, 12.30-15.00 at Sandringham School
  • Session 5: Monday, 7th February 2022, 9.00-11.30 at Sandringham School

Who is this course for?

Primary and secondary school teaching assistants in post or colleagues considering a role as a teaching assistant.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

On this programme participants will:

  • Be able to place a greater emphasis on the purpose and value of the lessons they support
  • To raise levels of engagement and achievement in learning
  • To use different methods and styles of support to challenge learners
  • To look at strategies for innovation and taking risks
  • To have a bigger impact on the planning and assessment for the learners they support
  • To demonstrate a higher level understanding of teaching and learning
  • Gain skills to be able to coach colleagues in raising performance

Areas of focus

The course will include:

  • Facilitated sessions
  • Observation of lessons
  • Reflection and review
  • Action planning

Meet the facilitators:

Tayla-Jay Ridley is currently a Key Stage 2 primary teacher and a Phase Leader at Simon Balle All Through School. She leads the SSAT Enhancing Teacher Programme and is a qualified OLEVI facilitator for the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme. She has led curriculum design for lower Key Stage 2.

 

 

Allyson Casby, Sandringham School

Allyson Casby is currently an English teacher at Sandringham School. She is an SLE, coach and qualified OLEVI facilitator for the Outstanding Teacher Assistant Programme. Allyson has just completed Module 2 of the MTPT project on embedding student-led coaching in lessons.

 

 

Testimonial

“I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for delivering such a brilliant programme. Although I have been in education for some time now, it was so refreshing to participate in something that was directly relevant to my role as support staff and enabled a large chunk of self reflection and collaboration.
I shall certainly take forward ideas and concepts from the Olevi programme to enhance my own practice.”

 

ECT Subject Specific Enhancement ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS 2021-22

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We are keen to ensure that all Early Career teachers have the opportunity to develop networks of subject specific enhancement to supplement their work on the Early Career Framework.  This training is open to all ECTs regardless of their ECF provider; we aim to be able to provide strong subject specific networks across our region.

The subject specific enhancement sessions for Economics and Business will take place as detailed below. It is intended that meetings will be face to face at Beaumont School however we will hold virtual meetings if need be.

  • SESSION 1: Wednesday 10th November 2021
  • SESSION 2: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
  • SESSION 3: Thursday 19th May 2022

Areas of Focus

Three sessions providing essential subject specific support in Year 1 of your Early Career journey.

Teaching Economics and Business qualifications at GCSE/L2 and A level /Level 3

Session 1:   Getting to grips with your specifications  and incorporating real-time business case studies  into  you lesson planning

Session 2:  Application and Assessment review with a focus on end of year revision and upcoming exams  – the key things you need to know so you can help students to  succeed

Session 3:  Fine-tuning and thinking about consolidation/retrieval strategies you start to plan and help students prepare for the second year of their qualification

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers delivering Economics and Business

Meet the facilitator

Brenda Austin – Head of Economics and Business, Beaumont School

Brenda has been Head of the Economics and Business department at Beaumont School since 2015 and was also a teacher of Economics and Business/Deputy Head of Sixth Form at Queens’ School in Bushey for five years.

At Beaumont which is an outstanding, fully comprehensive school, she leads a department with five staff teaching approx. 100 students at KS4 taking GCSE Business and Ctec Enterprise & Marketing courses. Over 130 students take Economics A-level courses at KS5. In addition, there are circa 80 learners on L3 Btec and Ctec Business courses. Beaumont also offers (optional) IFS courses to KS5 students as part of their enrichment programme.

Brenda has held whole school teaching and learning roles as well as having been a Governor in both schools. She is a proven management professional with a 12-year history of leadership and management with global financial institutions prior to joining the teaching profession.

 

 

 

ECT Subject Specific Enhancement HISTORY 2021-22

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We are keen to ensure that all Early Career teachers have the opportunity to develop networks of subject specific enhancement to supplement their work on the Early Career Framework.  This training is open to all ECTs regardless of their ECF provider; we aim to be able to provide strong subject specific networks across our region.

The subject specific enhancement sessions for History will take place as detailed below.  The method of delivery will be face-to-face at St Albans Girls’ School where possible. Virtual meetings may be used and this will be confirmed prior to each session.

  • SESSION 1: Tuesday 30th November 2021
  • SESSION 2: Tuesday 1st March 2022
  • SESSION 3: Tuesday 14th June 2022

Areas of Focus

Three sessions providing essential subject specific support in Year 1 of your Early Career journey.

Session 1: “Developing exam technique and resilience in GCSE and A Level History”

Session 2: “Evidence based Historical enquiries”

Session 3: “Diversity and inclusion in History”

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers delivering History

Meet the facilitator

Rachel Cardani – Curriculum Leader of History & Teacher of History and Politics, St Albans Girls’ School

Rachel has a firm commitment to raising standards of teaching and learning. As Curriculum Leader, she is convinced of the essential nature of collaboration and the sharing of good practice amongst colleagues.  Rachel has been an Olevi facilitator since 2015 for the Improving Teacher Programme and Outstanding Teacher Programme, including the ‘Power of Coaching’ element.

 

 

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