Melissa Hall – Alban Teaching School Hub

This programme of five sessions will focus on the essential skills required to be an outstanding middle leader. It would be ideal and more beneficial to attend all four sessions, however if you know you are unable to attend a session at the time of booking please contact laura.lusardi@albantsh.co.uk to discuss a flexible booking option.

Twilight sessions will run from 4.00pm to 5.30pm on the following dates:

Session 1: Tuesday, 18th January 2022 at Chessbrook ESC, Watford
Session 2: Tuesday, 8th February 2022 at Sandringham School
Session 3: Thursday, 17th March 2022, St Albans Girls’ School
Session 4: Wednesday, 27th April 2022, St Albans Girls’ School
Session 5: Thursday, 16th June 2022, St Albans Girls’ School

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at those who are already in positions of middle leadership and who wish to develop, refine and enhance their leadership qualities. The sessions will provide an opportunity to reconsider aspects of leadership including vision, strategic direction and managing teams. These sessions are aimed at both curriculum and pastoral leaders.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

These sessions will support you in:

Redefining your vision and values as a middle leader
Drawing together theory and practice
Sustaining effective leadership

Areas of Focus

The areas of focus will include:

Session 1: Effective approaches to support and develop your team
Session 2: Tracking students progress, data analysis and interpretation to improve student motivation.
Session 3: Self-evaluation, monitoring and moving forward to build capacity
Session 4: The nuts and bolts of middle leadership
Session 5: Collaborative problem solving based on real scenarios

Meet the facilitators

Session 1: Susan Miller, Centre Lead – Primary Outreach Manager, Chessbrook, Watford

Session 2: Tom Way, Lead Teacher – Behaviour and Engagement, Harlington Upper School

Session 3: Yvonne Adshead, Deputy Headteacher, Simon Balle All-through School, Hertford

Session 4: Melissa Hall, Curriculum Leader of English, St Albans Girls’ School, St Albans

Session 5: Paul Kershaw and Karen Thomas, Deputy Headteachers at St Albans Girls’ School, St Albans

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

Developing Effective Middle Leadership 2021-22

Who is this course for?

What are the objectives or outcomes?

Areas of Focus

Meet the facilitators

NQT+1 Secondary Education Recovery Programme 2021-22

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Who is this course for?

What are the objectives or outcomes?

Areas of Focus

Meet the facilitators

Meet the Facilitators

Our 5 Pillars

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