Developing Effective Middle Leadership 2021-22

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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

 

 

 

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.”

 

So you want to be an Assistant Headteacher? 2021-22

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This twilight session will take place on Thursday, 20th January 2022 and will have a focus on self reflection, aspects of the role of an Assistant Headteacher, and preparing for interviews at leadership level.

Who is this course for?

This session is ideal for established middle leaders considering their next steps to leadership position.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

In this twilight participants will:

  • Understand the role of and demands of an Assistant Headteacher
  • Receive practical, ‘tried and tested’ interview questions
  • Discuss applying for leadership positions

Meet the facilitator:

Vicki Blackburn started teaching in 2005 in a mixed comprehensive school in London. She has held the positions of; Deputy Curriculum Leader for PE, Curriculum Leader for PE, Head of Year and held responsibilities for Teaching and Learning as part of a secondment to SLT. During her journey to Senior Leadership Vicki also completed NPQML and NPQSL. Following this, she was successfully appointed as Assistant Headteacher at St Albans Girls’ School in 2017.

Maths for Non-Specialists 2021-22

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This programme is designed to upskill teachers who are teaching Maths as a non-specialist subject and will consist of four sessions from 2.30 to 4.30pm on the following dates:

  • Session 1: Tuesday, 18th January 2022 – at St Albans Girls’ School (start date postponed from November)
  • Session 2: Tuesday, 22nd March 2022 at St Albans Girls’ School
  • Session 3: Tuesday, 17th May 2022 at St Albans Girls’ School
  • Session 4: to be confirmed

The objectives of this programme are to:

  • improve subject knowledge of mathematics content.
  • to enhance knowledge of subject specific pedagogy and teaching and learning ideas.
  • Increase confidence in delivering mathematics lessons up to GCSE level.

Outline of each session:

Session 1: Teaching Number and Proportion
This session will explore the structure of the number system and go into some more detail about how we deal with proportion in maths. We will look at how we can help students understand these concepts through use of physical (or virtual) manipulatives and visual models.
Session 2: Teaching Shape/Space/Geometry
This session will look at what is expected of students at KS3 in terms of shape and space, how to make sense of length/area/volume formulae and units. We will also look at the power of examples and non-examples for helping students understand definitions and pre-empting misconceptions.
Session 3: Removing the mysteries of scientific Casio calculators & Teaching Data/Probability
Introduction to the use of scientific Casio calculators, suitable for non-specialist maths teachers and teaching assistants.
We will also look at some of the data and probability work which comes up at KS3 and how students can take a practical and active approach in lessons to understanding these concepts
Session 4: Teaching Algebra
This session will build on the foundations from the rest of the course to look at some of the Algebra that is taught at KS3 and beyond and how you can help students understand it with a series of questions involving minimal variations which provoke discussion

Reporting instructions will be emailed to you a few days before each session and sessions will take place either virtually or face to face in accordance with COVID guidelines at the time.

Who is this course for?

Non-specialist teachers of Mathematics

Meet the facilitators:

Jeff Hughes started his career as a qualified teacher in Hertfordshire and since then has worked in schools in South Africa and London before returning to Hertfordshire as Curriculum Lead for Maths at St Albans Girls’ 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, 12.00-14.30 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 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.

 

 

ECT Subject Specific Enhancement RE 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 RE will take place at St Albans Girls’ School on the following dates:

  • Tuesday 11th January 2022
  • Thursday 3rd March 2022
  • Thursday 9th June 2022

Areas of Focus

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

Session 1:

Title: “Depth over Breadth” at KS3

Building an academically rigorous KS3 lesson

How to build depth into your KS3 Curriculum

Including sources of wisdom and authority in your KS3 teaching

 Session 2:

Title:  Teaching RE to exam classes

Key tips for teaching GCSE RE

Key tips for teaching A-Level Religious Studies

Session 3:

Title: RE vs the ‘National Curriculum’

Looking at RE’s place in the curriculum and identifying challenges you may face

Looking at RE’s place nationally and how to build the profile of RE in your school

Ofsted’s report on RE – what is ‘good RE’?

Challenges and Solutions (as highlighted by ECT’s in session 1 and 2)

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers delivering RE

Meet the facilitator

Rebecca Bradbury, Curriculum Leader for REP (Religion, Ethics and Philosophy), St Albans Girls’ School

I trained with Teach First in 2012 and began my career in a mixed gender school in Enfield, London. Since then, I have held different positions in schools varying in nature including teaching in Beijing, China. I have worked in a variety of roles including Head of Year, Boarding Housemistress, Co-ordinator of Mental Health and Wellbeing and I have been the Curriculum Leader for REP (Religion, Ethics and Philosophy) at St Albans Girls’ School for 2 years. I have also been an RE GCSE examiner for the majority of my career.

I am passionate about creating an academically rigorous RE curriculum which allows learners to develop their theological, ethical and philosophical literacy as well as exploring their own relationship with the world around them. I believe our subject is on par with other academic subjects such as History and Geography and should therefore be planned for and treated as such.

 

 

Sixth Form Leaders Network 2021-22

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The ATSA are delighted to continue the Sixth Form Leaders Network for the academic year of 2021-22.

We intend to return to holding these sessions face to face to give delegates that opportunity to be able to enter into dynamic and fluid discussions during these twilight sessions which will be held from 4pm to 5.30pm at St Albans Girls’ School on the following dates:

  • Monday, 22nd November 2021 (new start date)
  • Thursday, 24th February 2022
  • Thursday, 16th June 2022

Who is this course for?

Sixth Form Leaders

What are the objectives or outcomes?

  • To share best practice to support post 16 students
  • To discuss changes to the post 16 educational landscape
  • To discuss common challenges that face sixth form

Areas of focus:

The course will include:

  • Changes to the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework and its implications for post 16 education
  • Pastoral care
  • The introduction of T Levels and the implication for sixth forms
  • Independent learning
  • Metacognition

Meet the facilitator:

Julia Pipes, Assistant Headteacher, St Albans Girls’ School

Head of Mathematics Network 2021-22

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This network is a chance for Heads of Mathematics to meet to discuss current issues in secondary phase mathematics education, to form good cross-school relationships and share best practice.

The group will meet termly from 4.00pm to 5.30pm on the following dates:

  • Wednesday, 24th November 2021 at St Albans Girls’ School (new start date)
  • Tuesday, 25th January 2022
  • Tuesday, 14th June 2022

Reporting instructions will be emailed to you during the week before each session.  The meetings may be a combination of virtual or face to face across the year.

Who is this course for?

Heads of Mathematics

What are the objectives or outcomes?

On this programme participants will:

  • Discuss and reflect on changes to the mathematics curriculum and examinations
  • Discuss the challenges facing Heads of Mathematics
  • Share best practice

Areas of focus:

The course will include:

  • Mathematics curriculum
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Stretching More Able Students and Enrichment
  • Budget

Meet the facilitators:

Jeff Hughes started his career as a qualified teacher in Hertfordshire and since then has worked in schools in South Africa and London before returning to Hertfordshire as Curriculum Lead for Maths at St Albans Girls’ School.

Developing Leaders (non-teaching staff) 2021-22

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We are delighted to offer this programme consisting of three sessions for support staff leaders in schools hosted at St Albans Girls’ School as follows:

  • Session 1: Thursday, 4th November 2021 9-11am – Leadership styles and having difficult conversations
  • Session 2: Monday, 22nd November 1.30-3.30pm – Leading within the school community
  • Session 3: Thursday, 9th December 9-11am – Strategies to promote effective change

Who is this course for?

Colleagues involved in managing and leading others within a school setting.  Delegates may be aspiring to be in role or currently in a position of leading a team.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

On this programme participants will:

  • Reflect on their personal strengths
  • Develop skills of leadership
  • Explore their own vision and values

Areas of Focus

The areas of focus will include:

  • Management or leadership? Understanding leadership styles
  • The nuts and bolts: Action planning for change
  • Leading successful change
  • Effective team management
  • Emotional intelligence, managing yourself and others

Meet the facilitators

 

Tessa Miles

During her career, Tessa has held a number of roles: Head of History, Head of House, Head of Faculty and Professional Learning Mentor. She was awarded AST status in 2008 and has since used her skills and knowledge to support NQTs in Hertfordshire as well as colleagues in her own school to develop their teaching and learning strategies.

 

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