Professional Development

*Please note that this is a new programme for 2017-2018 and not a repeat.

About the Session:

Session 1-Mathematics Mastery:  Developing fluency and conceptual understanding – the CPA approach.

• Exploring the range of models and images (‘new’ alongside ‘old’) and how they can support ALL learners in developing understanding and fluency.
• Main models will include:  Bar model, part-whole, Tens Frames, exchange boards, number tracks/lines.

Session 2 – Mathematics Mastery:  Slowly does it – Intelligent practice and reasoning.

• Mastery practice involves giving pupils (and teachers) more time to secure understanding.
• Time to scaffold their understandings, to ‘wallow’ in their learning, to play with ideas and explore mathematical contexts.  Talk it out, reason through – the important role of language.

Sessions 3 – Mastery Planning and Assessment – developing ‘progress packages’.

• Incorporating planning for mastery and planning opportunities for assessment.
• How could we evidence progress?  What would this look like in children’s books?  How could we track the impact on learning and ensure learning is secure over time?

Facilitator:

Gill Haysham

Date and Time:

Session 1: 15th September 2017

Session 2:  17th January 2018

Session 3: 4th May 2018

1.00pm to 3.45pm

(Light refreshments will be available from 12.45pm)

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

Primary Teachers & Maths Subject Leads

Course Fee:

Members: £120
Non members: £150
for the programme

Aims of the Session:

• To develop the skills of the subject leader.
• To receive updates on current developments in Maths and English.

Course Content:

This course aims to give subject leaders a chance to meet together and build up their own leaderships skills.  For the three sessions, Gill Haysham will take an in depth look at recent developments in Maths and Jonathan Bond will update delegates on English.

If available, any developments in KS1 & 2 testing, assessment without levels, the new curriculum and Ofsted will be included.

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Facilitator:

Jonathan Bond and Gill Haysham

Date and Time:

17th January 2018
4th May 2018

9.15am to 11.45pm

(Light refreshments will be available from 9.00am)

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All English & Maths Subject Leaders

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session or £100 for both sessions.

Focus of the Course:

To understand the pedagogy behind assessing reading without levels.

To know a range of practical strategies for assessing reading.

To be able to use assessment to aid pupil progress.

Course Content:

Research shows that ‘assessment without levels’ continues to be a weakness in many schools, failing to give teachers the information they need to make a difference to pupil progress.  This course will explore the pedagogy behind the changes and the impact this has on everyday practice in reading.  Participants will explore a full range of practical approaches for assessing reading so that final judgements are both accurate, robust and useful.  Assessment is the most urgent issue in primary education at the moment, making this course a ‘must’.

Facilitator:

Jonathan Bond

Date and Time:

8th November 2017

1.00pm to 3.45pm

(light refreshments will be available from 12.45pm)

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

Primary Teachers & English Subject Leads

Course Fee:

Members: £40
Non-members: £50

About the Session:

Do your PEPs make a difference….a REAL difference?  Do you sometimes feel they are a paper exercise that doesn’t impact outcomes for a child in the way you would wish?  Then this is the course for you!

Participants will have the chance to reflect upon their current practice relating to the PEPs they write and learn about a new approach that can be trialled in school as part of the CTSA/PLN ‘Improving Outcomes for Children in Care’ project.

Facilitators:

Verity Boreham and Liz Allen

Date and Time:

2nd November 2017

1.00pm to 4.00pm

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

• Designated Teacher for CiC, SGO and adopted from care
• Teachers who have a CiC in their class

Course Fee:

FREE

About the Session:

Learning mentors provide a complementary service to teachers and other staff, addressing the needs of children who require assistance in overcoming barriers to learning in order to achieve their full potential.  They meet regularly with vulnerable children, generally on a one-to-one basis, and provide support, advice and challenge in order for the children to learn appropriate and personalised skills.  The approach in particularly useful for stressed and anxious children.  Mentors have to be patient, good listerners.  They also have to constantly problem solve.  They must be reliable and will be expected to keep records of the mentoring.  Confidentiality is the key to learning mentoring and mentors must also be familiar with child protection guidelines.

Aims of the Programme:

• To know how to carry out the role of a learning mentor
• To learn the skills and structures needed for this role
• To understand pupil behaviour

This programme offers an opportunity for LSAs to train for this important role in addition to their present responsibilities.  Participant will receive 3 full days of training before they begin mentoring a child in their school and they will then attend 3 progress meetings while they are mentoring.

Facilitator:

Jonathan Bond

Date:

Training Days

Day 1 – 29th September
Day 2 – 18th October
Day 3 – 17th November
All sessions are between 9.15am – 3.00pm

Progress Meetings

Meeting 1 – 12th January 9.00am – 11.45am
Meeting 2 – 7th February 1.15pm – 4.00pm
Meeting 3 – 21st March 9.00am – 11.45am

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex  CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All current and prospective learning mentors

Course Fee:

Members: £300
Non Members: £350

Fee covers all sessions

About the Session:

A series of 3 full day sessions exemplifying the process that outstanding schools use to ensure that all aspects of teaching and learning are as good as they can be and that the school culture positively supports continual improvement.

Each day will guide school leaders through the steps needed to create a continually improving school and will identify the most urgent/important actions to be taken.  By the end of the 3 days all school leaders will understand and share a common approach to focused, rigorous school improvement and will have made significant progress in addressing identified issues.

Day 1
Identifying the key elements that enable schools to be successful at all levels; clarifying leadership strengths and areas for development for your school; understanding how an inclusive culture, trust, believability and collaboration are crucial to school improvement; introducing the change process and benchmarking your school’s leadership of Teaching and Learning; prioritising developments.
Day 2
Recognising progress from Day 1, resolving issues; identifying key issues and understanding how these impact on school improvement; recognising barriers to improvement and overcoming them; planning to resolve the big issues; developing change teams to drive school improvement at all levels; prioritising next steps.
Day 3
Recognising progress from Day 2, resolving issues; understanding how to sustain and develop school approaches to improvement; clarifying and enhancing the school’s annual cycle of improvement; identifying how to measure the impact of improvements; prioritising next steps.

Facilitators:

Susannah Edom-Baker
Jeremy Crook

Dates and Times:

Day 1 – 9th November 2017
Day 2 – 26th January 2018
Day 3 – 26th April 2018

All sessions 9.30am to 3.45pm

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

Primary School Leaders, including Governors

Course Fee:

Members: £200 per school
Non-members: £225 per school

For TWO delegates for all three sessions.

About the Session:

This new programme for recently qualified teachers designed by the Eastern Leadership Centre is now being offered to teachers in our  locality.

With a focus on reflective practice and a coaching style the programme is centred around six twilight sessions with associated inter-sessional activities:

• Great Teaching-becoming an expert practitioner in the classroom through impact, reflection and risk!
• Leading Learning-taking others with you through inspiration, vision and values.
• Forgoing ahead-pathways to further success.

Participants will share and develop exciting good practice.  They will explore different ways to use research, observation and monitoring strategies to enhance teaching and leadership.  They will also learn more about themselves and working with others through reflecting on personal styles, use of emotional intelligence and overcoming barriers.

Facilitator:

Carol Gooding, Headteacher, Danbury Park School

Dates:

Wednesday, 1st November 2017

Wednesday, 6th December 2017

Wednesday, 17th January 2018

Wednesday, 7th March 2018

Wednesday, 25th April 2018

Wednesday, 27th June 2018

All sessions 4.00pm – 5.30pm

Venue:

Danbury Park Primary School
Well Lane
Chelmsford
CM3 4AB

Target Audience:

Primary Teachers in their 2nd-5th year of teaching

Course Fee:

All CTSA Schools: FREE
Other Schools: £60.00

(fee covers all 6 sessions)

About the Session:

This new programme for recently qualified teachers designed by the Eastern Leadership Centre is now being offered to teachers in our  locality.

With a focus on reflective practice and a coaching style the programme is centred around six twilight sessions with associated inter-sessional activities:

• Great Teaching-becoming an expert practitioner in the classroom through impact, reflection and risk!
• Leading Learning-taking others with you through inspiration, vision and values.
• Forgoing ahead-pathways to further success.

Participants will share and develop exciting good practice.  They will explore different ways to use research, observation and monitoring strategies to enhance teaching and leadership.  They will also learn more about themselves and working with others through reflecting on personal styles, use of emotional intelligence and overcoming barriers.

Facilitator:

Krysia Sosin, Assistant Heateacher, Hylands School

Dates:

Wednesday, 4th October 2017

Tuesday, 28th November 2017

Thursday, 25th January 2018

Monday, 26th February 2018

Thursday, 26th April 2018

Wednesday, 13th June 2018

Time:

4.00pm – 5.30pm

Venue:

Hylands School
Chelmsford Road
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 3ET

Target Audience:

Secondary Teachers in their 2nd-5th year of teaching

Course Fee:

All Mid Essex Schools:  FREE
Other Schools:  £60.00

(fee covers all 6 sessions)

About the Session:

Gary Wilson will be working with us to share good practice regarding ‘Raising Boys Achievement’.  This will follow on from some work he has completed with students during the day but could potentially be an opportunity to pick up some golden nuggets of advice and good practice.

Date and Time:

2nd November 2017

3.45pm to 5.45pm

Venue:

St John Payne Catholic School
Patching Hall Lane
Chelmford
CM1 4BS

Target Audience:

Secondary School Teachers

Course Fee:

FREE

About the Session:

During the sessions we will be covering:

• Progression in scientific knowledge and understand the skills of working scientifically
• Using pre-assessment to ensure children are appropriately challenged
• Planning lessons that enable children to ask their own relevant questions and to use different types of scientific enquiry to answer them
• Effective success criteria for practical activities
• Identifying the science in real-life contexts
• How to teach the tricky science concepts
• Deepening children’s learning in science – what mastery looks like
• Simple strategies for assessing children’s learning during lessons
• What makes effective recording in science for children to record their scientific thinking and learning
• How to use children’s recording to reliably assess children’s attainment and plan next steps
• Ofsted’s latest expectations of science in primary schools
• Using problem solving to enable children to apply their scientific knowledge and understanding

Facilitator:

Jeremy Crook

Date and Time:

28th February 2018
13th June 2018

All sessions 9.30am – 12.00pm

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All Science Subject Leaders

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session

or

£100 for both sessions

About the Session:

As schools continue to further embed the Computing Curriculum and meet the ongoing challenges of online safety, these meetings will ensure Subject Leaders are kept up-to-date with the latest news and developments, both locally and nationally.  There will be time for discussion, training and review of resources to ensure Computing & Online Safety Subject Leaders have a toolkit of resources to meet the needs of the Computing Curriculum.

The following objectives will be focused upon across the network meetings:

• To develop the skills and knowledge of the Computing & Online Safety Subject Leader
• To discuss current developments in Computing & Online Safety
• To provide up-to-date information on local and national issues
• To offer opportunities for schools to work together and learn from each other on curriculum development, assessment and resources
• To give an overview of new and emerging technologies in Computing and for use across the curriculum
• To consider the use of evaluation and other data to plan improved provision
• To develop monitoring and evaluation skills, such as work scrutiny, pupil voice and learning walks
• To enhance work with governors with regard to accountability/value for money and safeguarding responsibilities

Facilitator:

Amanda Jackson & Dave Smith (Havering Education Services)

Date and Time:

21st February 2018
23rd May 2018

All sessions 1.00pm – 4.00pm

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

Subject Leaders

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session

or

£100 for both sessions

About the Session:

Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants (MITA) is an evidence-based approach to improving the ways school utilise TAs.  Developed and delivered with reference to Education Endowment Foundation guidance for the use of TAs and the research behind the ground-breaking Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) project – the MITA programme will help you review and rethink the way your school deploys and prepares TAs.  Over 100 Essex schools (Primary, Secondary and Special) have already participated in the programme and seen the benefits.

The MITA programme offers your school:

• The opportunity to engage with leading research
• Practical tools and guidance on auditing practice in your school
• Guidance from experts
• Classroom-tested strategies
• The chance to collaborate with other schools
• A way of demonstrating investment in your TA workforce

Session 1: Deployment – Development of TA ‘Deployment Policy’
Session 2: Preparedness – Equipping teachers to deploy their TAs effectively in the day to day classroom
Session 3: Practice – How to develop high quality interactions between TAs and pupils in order to develop independent learners

These sessions will provide the tools to audit current practice and the opportunity to explore models of TA deployment which will lead to improved outcomes for young people

Facilitator:

Jacky Wragg (SuperSENCO)

 

Date and Time:

Session 1 – 22nd November 2017
Session 2 – 7th March 2018
Session 3 – 27th June 2018

1.15pm – 3.30pm (Light refreshments will be available from 1.00pm)

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Traget Audience:

This course is designed for senior leaders, including SENCOs.  Schools who have seen the biggest impact as a result of engaging with the programme are those who ensure leaders at all levels are involved in the programme.

Course Fee:

£255 per school (this will secure a place for up to 3 delegates)

About the Course:

This course, which takes place over three mornings, aims to give teaching assistants specific, practical guidance on their role in improving outcomes for pupils.

Based on extensive and ground-breaking research, this course introduces a classroom-tested framework as the basis for practical strategies and reflective activities to help TAs improve the support they provide to pupils.  It will focus on how, through effective talk and interaction with pupils, we can develop their independence and ownership of their own learning.

The course will cover:

• Latest research and guidance on the complementary roles of teachers and TAs
• Scaffolding as a framework for developing pupil independence
• Reflect on their practice and develop specific scaffolding strategies
• How to contribute to assessment for learning
• Effective delivery of intervention programmes
• Supporting collaborative group work
• Planning changes to their practice

Facilitator:

Jacky Wragg (SuperSENCO)

Date and Time:

Session 1 – 22nd November 2017
Session 2 – 7th March 2018
Session 3 – 27th June 2018

9.30am – 12.30pm (Light refreshments will be available from 9.15am)

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

Learning Support Assistants/Classroom Support Staff

Course Fee:

Members £120

Non members £150

The conferences for NQTs in Secondary Schools, are personalised to meet the needs of the NQTs and address aspects of all the Teaching Standards.

These sessions will provide opportunities for delegates to:

• Develop their understanding of teaching and learning
• Develop professional relationships with colleagues from other schools
• Reflect on their learning to date and plan for their continued professional development

Format of the programme:

All sessions will start with a networking opportunity at 4.00pm where NQTs will be able to share concerns and seek advice from an experienced colleague.  The session will end with time for NQTs to raise any questions regarding the topic discussed.  The Teach Meet format is an excellent wa to share good practice and for NQTs to start forming the habit of becoming lifelong learners.

Programme Details:

13th September 2017, 4-5.30pm at Notley High School
Welcome & Introduction to the NQT Year Behaviour for Learning – Work/Life balance

9th October 2017, 4-5.30pm at Notley High School
Role of the Tutor

1st November 2017, 4-5.30pm at Chelmer Valley High School
Using Data, knowing your students & evidencing learning

29th November 2017, 4-5.30pm at Chelmer Valley High School
Assessment, marking & feedback for progress

15th January 2018, 4-5.30pm at Notley High School
Differentiation 1

31st January 2018, 4-5.30pm at Notley High School
Differentiation 2

4th July 2018, 4-6pm at Notley High School
Moving Forward to Year 2

TBC, 5-7.30pm at Notley High School
Teach Meet

 

Programme FREE to NQT’s in Mid Essex