Teaching and Learning: principles not straitjackets

  • Ensure the rigorous principles of Outstanding lessons whilst removing rigid lesson planning

  • Tried and tested methods to spread Outstanding practice across the school

  • Collaborative techniques achieve:

    • high attainment

    • excellent progress

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Description

Replacing the straitjacket

Critically examine restrictive teaching, learning and assessment policies

Respond to the relaxation in inspection demands

Ease the pressure to:

  • meet performance targets

  • retain staff motivation and employment

A guide to applying a school-wide principles-led model

Outline the key principles that underpin Outstanding lessons

Discuss what these principles look like in practice

Develop a menu of strategies that meet the principles

Successfully balance the conflict between:

  • ‘head’ (data, progress, attainment, inspection)

  • ‘heart’ (autonomy, creativity, variety of practice, passion)

Staff development that visionary leaders can employ

A partnership to combine rigour, creativity and professional autonomy

Trust professional teachers to make decisions based on the principles

Develop handbooks to:

  • reduce workload

  • spread best practice

  • monitor progress across a school or partnership

Suitable for primary, middle and secondary schools

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Course Type

Leadership & Management
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Key Stage

Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5