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Buckinghamshire County Council

Workshop CWorking with other colleagues in

school

Cathy TracyBucks LA Primary Consultant

ISP and G&T

[email protected]


Improving gifted and talented educationFour workshops (for leading teachers)1: Your teaching and learning role – exploring what works

in your classroom

2: Your teaching and learning role – working with colleagues in school

3: Your leadership and management role – school-wide self-evaluation and action planning

4: Your leadership and management role – widening opportunities

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/447711


Improving gifted and talented education

Five workshops (for senior leaders)

1:Hearts and minds: what do we believe about G&T education?

2:G&T practice in our school: where are we now?

3:Exploring what works: Quality First teaching

4:Leading improvement in G&T provision

5:Small steps to change: planning improvement in G&T education

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/415631


Key principles• Schools need to implement a clear, consistent and

shared understanding of Quality First teaching (QFT)

• QFT is central to effective mainstreaming of gifted and talented (G&T) provision

• All teachers are accountable for the quality of teaching in their lessons. They have a responsibility to ensure that barriers to academic achievement and longer-term success of their pupils are identified and reduced through a whole-school focus on QFT


Objectives

• To reflect on effective approaches for working with other teachers

• To explore how to share with colleagues the impact of effective practice in the leading teacher’s own classroom

• To explore strategies for effective collaborative CPD with a focus on effective G&T provision in the classroom and developing QFT


About this session...This session is about:• reflecting on how you can use examples of effective

teaching and learning from your own classroom practice (identified in workshop 1) to work with colleagues

• using these examples as a stimulus, exploring strategies for working collaboratively and supporting school colleagues in planning and implementing similar approaches in their classrooms

Shared reflection will be a key part of this cycle, resulting inevidence of impact for dissemination across the school

There will be two activities to work through


Reflecting on effective CPD support

• What approaches have you used for engaging/supporting staff to develop their classroom practice?

• Has this included using your own practice as a basis for supporting colleagues?

• What has worked well and how do you know?


Activity 2: Four parts

1. Developing teachers’ confidence in providing challenge

2. Collaborative planning and review model

3. Developing learning conversations for staff

4. Using a lesson study approach to enquiry


Activity 3: QFT Resources: handout 2.5 and handout 2.6• Review the characteristics of QFT and account of

practice in science and agree:– Which aspects of practice from Activity 1 does this

confirm?– What new ideas are worth exploring further?

• Sum up what they think is their school’s view of QFT• Identify key messages about development of QFT in the

school


Next steps

• How can you support colleagues to focus on G&T so that this focus supports excellence for all and school-wide improvement of teaching and learning?

• What will your role be?• Who do you need to talk to?• What do you need to say?• How/when will you start?• How will you overcome any barriers/difficulties?

Who/what will help you?


Key Messages

• You don’t have to be perfect to lead!• Learn alongside others• Select the colleagues to work with carefully• You need the back-up from the School

Development Plan

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