Ben Garcia – Alban Teaching School Hub

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

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 English will take place as face to face meetings as shown below:

SESSION 1: Tuesday, 9th November 2021 – Sandringham School
SESSION 2: Wednesday, 27th April 2022 – Sir John Lawes School
SESSION 3: Tuesday, 7th June 2022 – Sandringham School

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers

Meet the facilitators

Session 1 and 3: Athena Pitsillis, Assistant Headteacher, Sandringham School

Athena has worked at Sandringham as an Assistant Headteacher since September 2018. She is responsible for a number of areas including data and assessment; exams; parental engagement and parent teacher conference evenings; interventions and catch-up funding; high starters and equality and diversity. She is an SLE in CPD and, for the last year, has lead the English faculty for a maternity cover.

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

Ben has been teaching English since 2002, firstly in London schools and then, since 2007, at Sir John Lawes School in Harpenden. He was Head of English at Sir John Lawes before becoming an Assistant Headteacher in 2014. Since then, he has been a Specialist Leader in Education for English and has had responsibility for areas such as teaching and learning and exams, at Sir John Lawes and across the Scholars’ Education Trust. Ben has also been a facilitator and assessor for teacher development courses such as the HertsCam ELDP and the Chartered Teacher Programme.