Description
Section 2: Inspiring innovative teaching & learning
(From our toolkit: Leading your curriculum to inspire outstanding T&L)
When you have the right curriculum model in place, driven by a vision that best fits your students’ needs, you need to ensure that you achieve quality T&L within that to improve whole-school achievement.
This means having the right T&L strategies and techniques in use to ensure your staff put your new curriculum into practice with success. So this section looks at how to inspire innovative T&L among all your staff, providing information and tools that allow you to explore how to:
➤use your curriculum vision to inform your planning
➤inspire the right environment for outstanding T&L
➤frame the main building blocks for learning within your new curriculum
➤incorporate the types of skills you want your teaching staff to develop in learners
➤identify the teaching strategies that will give your students the best chance to develop these skills so they are better equipped to achieve their potential
➤work with your staff to research and develop new T&L methods
➤boost thinking for learning in all classrooms
➤develop in students a language for learning
➤achieve meaningful reflection on learning by students.
Use this resource to identify the changes you want to make to T&L strategies and formats, and then plan the best ways to prepare your teaching staff to put these into practice.
Also includes:
➤ PDF of practical tools
➤ Introductory section setting out whole framework for becoming an inspirational curriculum leader including cycle of improvement, what inspirational looks like in your core responsibilities, and how to gain inspiration from others
Practical tools:
- Choosing right training provider
- Assessing impact of new T&L approach
- Assessing thinking opportunities: questionnaire for staff
- Thinking about your thinking: questionnaire for students
- Exploring new T&L approach: planning for success
Examples of practical resources and development activities:
- Focus areas for T&L research
- Key stages to go through with collaborative research
- Questions for thinking hats
- Inspiring staff to focus on literacy and numeracy
- Features of quality learning conversations
- Cycle of learning
– Format: ebook
– Pages: 40 A4
– Author: Angela Dewsbury, Publisher: Inspiration in Education
– ISBN: 978-1-913503-04-8
– Also includes an additional 22pp ebook of all the tools and activities in an expanded and easy-to-use format
– Publication date: 2020
