Teaching, learning, CPD and leadership in education

• development and facilitation of teacher networks
• development and facilitation of 'peer enquiry' approaches to school improvement - involving teachers evaluating within and across schools, and feedback from students 
• development of models of consultancy for school support, including the use of ASTs and other lead teachers
• coaching individual teachers - including team-teaching and review
• support for subject departments in schools 
• delivery of middle leader development programmes
• delivery of action-research based CPD programmes 
• development and delivery of tailored training sessions and other CPD - around, for instance, Assessment for Learning, teacher/learner interaction and dialogue, science pedagogy, and more
• production of various teacher support materials
  for various schools, colleges and local authorities (including Central Bedfordshire, Bedford Borough, Isle of Wight, Cambridgeshire, Milton Keynes, Thurrock, Lincolnshire)

Evaluation  

• development of national guidance for the evaluation of educational initiatives
  for the National STEM Centre
• evaluation and advice on the development of an Assessment for Learning toolkit and methodology - APP Science and APP ICT - now in use nationally (includes use of teacher focus groups & questionnaires) 
  for QCDA
• evaluation of the impact of schemes and curriculum resources designed to enhance and enrich the curriculum (includes use of teacher interview, focus groups & questionnaires; and student focus groups & questionnaires)
  for Nuffield, Gatsby, STEMNET
• evaluation of the impact of a national CPD programme (includes use of CPD provider observation and interview; and provider and teacher questionnaires)
  for GlaxoSmithKline/Millgate House
• advice regarding national curriculum change - such as at GCSE and A level
  for QCDA

Strategy

• development of strategies to coordinate the work of high profile educational bodies
  for Department for Education/National STEM Programme
• consultations on liaison and contractual arrangements between key partners from Government agencies, private sector, education etc.; and advice and development of a toolkit to help educational support organisations meet schools' needs
  for STEMNET

References for quality of work can be provided for any previous client organisations.


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