Blog of the Week
Dani Walley – Middle leaders – ‘the forgotten leaders?’
Dani articulates both the importance and the pressures of being a curriculum leader in a secondary school, emphasising the need for proper professional development for middle leaders.
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Sam Atkins – Tackling educational disadvantage in geography
Durrington’s head of geography Sam blogs about how he has used SPDS to support his team in tackling educational disadvantage.
Research School Blog
Chris Runeckles – Durrington Professional Development Twilights 2023 – 24
Me, trailing our open professional development offer for next year. Get involved!
Other Useful Links
- Via the TES is this piece from Alex Quigely – Is it time to ditch classroom displays?
- From Inner Drive’s Bradley Busch is this piece connected to what has been a fairly contentious topic on Twitter recently – Four teaching strategies to link oracy and cognitive science.
- Dr Jo Castelino gives some suggestions for our most reluctant learners – Motivating the least confident students
- Thahmina Begum helps us in dealing with those end of term requests – Can we have a fun lesson today?
- Taking inspiration from Thahmina is Lekha Sharma with this piece – Spotlight on Great Practice- Hidden in Plain Light
- For those thinking about PD for next year, Mark Miller helps with interpreting the mechanisms – Connecting the Cogs of Effective Professional Development
- Pete Foster considers how we can give feedback from teacher observations most effectively – How to make lesson feedback a conversation
- Words matter and Xristos Curtis explains why in this blog – Crying over words. They are more than tiers
Durrington Professional Development Twilights 2023 – 24
Next year we are offering twilight training programmes on the following areas of evidence-informed practice. They will take the format of three 90 minute online sessions spread over 6 – 8 weeks. You can book via this form.
The five sessions are:
- Mobilising Metacognition
- Supporting SEND Students in Mainstream Schools
- Tackling Educational Disadvantage
- Feedback to Improve Learning
- Effective Professional Development
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