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100 things 1% better
On Friday at our DMAT Leadership Conference, Humphrey Walters talked to us about his experience of working with winning teams – you can read more about it here. One of the points he made is that winning teams don’t make … Continue reading
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Tagged Appraisal, CPD, Disciplined Inquiry, Formative Assessment, Inquiry Question
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Learning from our most successful teams
Today’s INSET day had a very clear focus – ‘Getting better at getting better’. The quotes above were shared, because they summarise what it means to be a teacher at Durrington: Regardless of our experience, we are all committed to … Continue reading
Durrington Research School Training Programme 2018-19
Now is the time of year in schools, when leaders are beginning to plan their improvement priorities and plans for next year. At the Durrington Research School, we have planned our training programme for next year, around key themes that … Continue reading
Guest Blog from Jack Tavassoly-Marsh, Senior Assistant Headteacher at Farnham Heath End School.
Guest Blog from Jack Tavassoly-Marsh, Senior Assistant Headteacher at Farnham Heath End School. As a Research School, we are very keen to work with colleagues from other schools and share ideas about effective teaching and learning. Last term, we had … Continue reading
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Bright Spots: SPDS
One of our greatest successes at Durrington High School is our subject planning and development sessions (SPDS). These are fortnightly, subject-specific CPD sessions in which curriculum teams meet to develop subject and pedagogical knowledge and ideas. To ensure the most effective practice … Continue reading
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Mobilising the evidence – Part 2
On our January INSET day, five teachers presented to the rest of the teaching staff, about how they had taken the research evidence that had been presented to them at previous INSET days and other CPD activities and mobilised it … Continue reading
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Tagged INSET, Modelling, Retrieval practice, Revision, Vocabulary
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Explicit Vocabulary Instruction as a Whole-School Literacy Strategy
Whole-School Literacy: Where to Begin Last week at Durrington High School we spent a part of our INSET refocusing our whole-school literacy strategy. This began through comparing literacy to a toolbox that students can, and should, have available in every curriculum area. In … Continue reading
Effective CPD – Subject Planning and Development Sessions in Maths
Last year at Durrington we introduced a new approach to CPD – Subject Planning & Development Sessions. The idea behind them is very straightforward – once a fortnight subject teams meet and discuss, what are we teaching over the next … Continue reading
What will the Durrington Research School do for you?
We are incredibly excited to have been designated as a Research School this year, as a part of the Research Schools Network. We will share what we know about putting research into practice and will support local primary and secondary … Continue reading
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