Course Details

Centre for Educational Excellence in the North 

A Partnership between Salford Professional Development Ltd and the National Education Trust 

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Tuesday 2nd July 2013, 09.30-15.15, Media CityUK

It is easy to assume that, as soon as students embark on Post 16 study, they automatically become well-motivated independent learners. More often, these young people have been spoon-fed, tracked and monitored, as schools have responded to the need to improve outcomes at KS4 at all costs. At the same time, teaching and learning at Post 16 is still often seen as a ‘secret garden’: there is often less focus on pedagogy than elsewhere and an assumption that anyone with a good degree will teach well at this level. There is consequently often less monitoring of the quality of teaching, learning and provision than in other phases of education. The course will take a three-fold approach: on the needs of individual students, the development of effective teaching and learning and the importance of consistent approaches across the whole institution and how all these should work together to encourage students to become genuine independent learners.

Effective leadership and teaching at Post 16 is crucial to the life chances of young people as they seek to move on into an increasingly competitive higher education and employment environment. As a result of this, the Centre for Educational Excellence is delivering an intensive one day course designed to help schools and colleges deliver the best outcomes for their students. The course provides detailed guidance on every aspect of Post 16 provision and practical strategies for delivering it.

Attendance at this course will provide you with a knowledge and skills set that you will be able to take back with you to the benefit of your school and institution, including:

• Effective transition from Key Stage 4
• How to challenge and support teaching and learning at post 16
• Strategies to help students become independent learners
• Developing student voice and student leadership
• Creating the right environment for learning
• Leading the effective tutor team
• Building successful enrichment and study skills programmes
• Identifying and building the key skills and qualities of successful post 16 leaders
• How to support students in making their next steps

Agenda

09:30  Registration and Coffee

10:00  Opening Presentation: What is effective Post 16 provision?

• Identifying the features of successful Post 16 provision
• Dealing with barriers to progress and success
• The importance of leadership at Post 16
• Creating a culture of consistency and high expectations
• Ethos and environment for learning

11.00  Coffee

11.30 Best Practice Focus: Teaching and learning at post 16

• How to evaluate the quality of teaching and learning
• Strategies to promote independent learning
• Effective group work
• Stretch and challenge: meeting the most demanding assessment criteria
• Challenge through assessment and feedback
• Students leading learning

12:15  Best Practice Focus: Effective pastoral provision

• Tutorial and study skills programmes

• Monitoring and tracking systems
• Intervening with underachieving students
• Managing transition and progression
• Working with parents
• Effective advice and guidance
• Managing attendance

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Best Practice Focus: Environment and ethos

• Effective enrichment programmes
• Consistent leadership: setting high expectations and …..
• …Responsive leadership: dealing with students as individuals
• Providing opportunities for student leadership
• Creating the right environment for learning

14:45  Final thoughts: How successful post 16 leaders, teachers and tutors get the best out of students

15:15  Close

Tutor

David Birch is Deputy Director and leads the Trust's work with Advocacy Schools, and NET's professional development and school improvement programmes across the country.

David taught English in schools in London and Oxfordshire before becoming a secondary headteacher in Devon for 12 years. He has been a School Improvement Partner with nine schools in the South West and continues to work with schools in three local authorities as a school improvement adviser and, as a freelance consultant, works on school evaluation and improvement projects nationally. Much of his recent work has focused on leadership & management coaching in primary and secondary schools, improving teaching and learning and leadership in sixth forms, and developing the teaching of English and literacy 3 -19. He also writes and leads training courses, and is an A level English examiner and subject consultant for Ofqual.

Target Audience

The audience on the day will include: Head Teachers/teachers; Heads of School; Directors of Education; Directors of Children’s Services; Education Consultants;  Academia; School Inspectors and all relevant job roles from across the Education Lancscape and organisations including Secondary Schools; Colleges; LEAs; Voluntary and Community Sector; Academia;  Private Sector and all those with an interest or engaged in Effective Leadership and Teaching at Post 16