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

 

 

 

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

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 normally run from 2.30 to 4.30pm.

PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ON THIS PROGRAMME BY EMAILING laura.lusardi@albantsh.co.uk

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.

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 or online (tbc) on the following dates:

  • Tuesday 11th January 2022 – confirmed online
  • Thursday 14th 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.

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