Excellence in Teaching Conference 2019
A Model for Teaching Excellence
Expert ways to achieve teaching excellence
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Practical toolkit and free framework to build teacher excellence
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Complete leaders’ guide to becoming an expert at improving teaching
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Scottish case studies: schools sharing their journey to excellence
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How to overcome the three big blocks to teacher improvement
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Practical sessions to embed great practice
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Description
‘The differences within schools are greater than the differences between schools’ – Professor John Hattie. Find out why we need to be better learners. Discover how your school can be a fertile place for adult learning.
Discover techniques to:
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Reduce the variance of teaching within schools and across clusters
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Understand the three barriers to teachers being higher performers:
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Cognitive overload
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Low relational trust
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Perception gaps
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Crystal-clear clarity
Help leaders and teachers to be clear about:
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What education is for
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Your school’s aims and vision
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The pedagogy that has the biggest impact on children and young people
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The difference between deep and moderate subject understanding
The jenga of trust
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Build a culture of reflection, evaluation and risk-taking
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How to develop relational trust – and what not to do
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Create a high-trust, high-accountability organisation
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How to model openness to learning
Did you see the gorilla?
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How we delude ourselves that we’re better than we really are
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Build systems that enable us to close perception gaps:
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Baseline diagnostics
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Rubrics to improve practice
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Video analysis
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Stakeholder surveys
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Every teacher improves every year
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Ensure your systems and culture enable teachers to make more impact on learners
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Improve teachers’ time management
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Design agendas for effective meetings
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Improve teachers in the workflow – lesson feedback and informal learning
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Design high-impact professional training that can be delivered in-house
