All training / support is tailored to meet the needs of the school or cluster. It may include:
Whole school support:
-
Staff meetings
-
Twilight sessions
-
Training days
-
Cluster conferences
- Teaching Assistant CPD
- Parents' evenings or workshops
In-Class options:
- Demonstration lessons/ Workshops/ Writing projects
- Team teaching
- Lesson observations and feedback
- Lesson study/co coaching
- Shared and Guided Writing
- Shared and Guided Reading
Teacher support:
- Planning – linked to assessment for learning
- Assessing/ levelling/ moderating/ next steps
- Reviewing and evaluating learning
- Book scrutiny
- Developing subject knowledge - individual CPD
Focus areas:
- Experiential Writing - 'Writing for Real' - motivating children to write, making learning fun!
- Closing the Gender Gap eg. Raising standards in boys’ writing
- Narrowing the gaps eg. FSM/non FSM, vulnerable groups, EAL
- Writing across the Curriculum – the Creative Curriculum, thematic approach
- Early reading and phonic support
- Developing Reading Comprehension in creative ways
- Speaking and Listening /Talk for Reading and Writing
- Visual Literacy
- Film projects
- Drama workshops/Drama productions
- Transition projects, particularly between Y2 and Y3, Y6 and Y7
- Extending the More Able, G & T
- Links with the Community
- Any other focus area you may wish to discuss
The support could be delivered:
-
to one school, as classroom support/CPD/ workshop/coordinator support;
- to a pair of schools, sharing the cost and the in-school hours or creating joint CPD opportunities;
- to a cluster of schools, dividing the support between them but clustering together for joint CPD sessions, classroom workshops, lesson study, planning / assessment sessions, etc.
- over a concentrated period of time eg. one or two terms / post or pre OfSTED
- over an extended period of time eg. one year /two years
