NQT Conference Outstanding Teaching
Venue: Faculty of Health and Social Care 17th May 2014
NQT Conference: Outstanding Teaching I 17th May 2014
Contents Welcome from Robert Smedley, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean Faculty of Education
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Keynote Speaker: Faisal Ahmed
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A welcome from the NQT Support Programme Team Conference Programme Workshop Leaders The NQT wiki Exhibitors
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Welcome from Robert Smedley, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean of Faculty of Education We are delighted to welcome you to Edge Hill University for this NQT Conference and programme. If you qualified with us in the Summer then 'welcome back', if you qualified as a teacher somewhere else then we are pleased that you have chosen to work with us on your continued development as a teacher.
Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean, Faculty of Education
Robert Smedley
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The Faculty of Education at Edge Hill is one of the most significant providers of teacher training and education in the country and we are committed to providing the very highest quality opportunities to support you in becoming an even better teacher in the classroom and to progress your career as a teacher. We want to be part of your future and hope that this conference and programme is the start of something much bigger in your continued relationship with the Faculty of Education. Please tell us what else we could be doing to support your needs as an NQT this year and we'll see what we can do.
NQT Conference: Outstanding Teaching I 17th May 2014
A welcome from the NQT Programme Team Welcome to the third and final of this year’s NQT Conferences provided by the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. We are delighted that you have seen the value of today’s conference and taken the time to meet up with old friends, University tutors and to take part in a wide range of workshops. This year, the conference has been extended to include workshops for graduates from post compulsory education and training. A special welcome to any graduates from such programmes. We are excited about hosting a ‘TeachMeet’ session again and we welcome and thank colleagues who have volunteered to share their outstanding practice. Today’s programme is the result of work with teachers who have recently been successful in completing their NQT year. They have helped shape the programme based on their experiences. We are delighted that they too are here today and extend a warm welcome. Whilst on welcomes, we are delighted to have Faisal Ahmed from Streford High School in Manchester as our guest speaker.
Finally, from everyone in the NQT Team, have a great day and do let us know how we can support you whether in your NQT year or still seeking that first post.
Trish Byrne, David Grimes, Sue Harrop, Lindsey March, Justine Smith, Paul Spencer, Judith Thomas and Sarah Wright.
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Keynote Speaker Faisal Ahmed joined Stretford High School as an Edge Hill University Religious Education PGCE trainee in September 2010 and quickly established himself as a valued member of the Humanities and Social Sciences department; having a wider school impact with personalised learning and the use of technology in the classroom.
In February 2011; Faisal was able to secure a full time post as Teacher of Humanities. He took up the position in September 2011 after successful completion of the PGCE; creating new schemes of work, redefining form time and student leadership, spearheading the school literacy drive and endeavouring to instil a love for learning in all his students. Director of Academic School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Stretford High School.
Faisal Ahmed,
As an RQT, Faisal was teaching four GCSE subjects including Religious Studies, Modern World History, Sociology and Psychology, leading extra curricular subjects, Student Council facilitator and sharing his practice with colleagues, Edge Hill University graduates and trainees. He played an integral part in the creation of the NQT conference and continues to share his expertise. In March 2013, after a national search, he was successfully appointed Director of Academic School for Humanities and Social Sciences. He is currently in the process of completing his Masters in Education and NPQML qualification.
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Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Hot Buffet Lunch, networking and visit exhibition (Room available for NQT survey) Workshop 3 Evaluation, Closing remarks, Goodie Bag, Prizes and Certificate of Attendance
11.00 - 11.55
12.00 - 12.55
1.00 - 1.40
1.45 - 2.40
2.45 - 3.00
Challenging contexts – Teaching mixed ages Yvonne Shone Farnborough Road Junior School, Southport
‘Why be good, when you can be outstanding instead?’ Faisal Ahmedand Mez Munshi Stretford High School Manchester
Setting the right level of challenge Andrew Holt Assistant Headteacher St Bede’s CHS, Ormskirk
Digital Literacy in today’s classroom (KS1&2) Cherise Duxbury Computing Coordinator St Mary’s CE Primary Bolton
Fun to be Five Alison Hughes EYFS Teacher St. Stephen’s CE Primary School Bolton.
The use of ipads to support T&L (KS2) Tanasha Robinson Literacy Leader and former ICT Leader St Silas Liverpool
‘Taking the temperature of learning’ How to demonstrate progress Michelle Rathor Strategic Lead Tameside LEA
Concept Mapping Strategies (Assessment in Primary Science) (KS1 and 2) David Barker Senior Lecturer Edge Hill University
Using assessment to improve your teaching and the learning outcomes of your pupils. (KS1&2) Deborah Green Deputy Headteacher
Teachers as advocates for widening participation to Higher Education Louise Higham ARC Network
Assessment in Colleges Use of data to support planning and T&L Paula Litherland and Kris Robinson Hopwood Hall College Middleton
A Toolkit for Behaviour: working in challenging contexts Kirsty Pugh and Klare Athorn The Alternative School Barnoldswick
Secondary and FET (formerly PCET)
An Introduction to Forest School Alice Savery Shropshire Forest School
Theatre of Learning: “The Magic Plane” Cross-curricular creativity Sue Phillips Theatre of Learning
Cooperative Learning with Kagan Emma Rollins Teacher to Teacher (UK)
‘Get that job!’ Employability Jon-Leigh Pritchard ATL
‘Re-energise, creativity for the tired teacher!’ Sarah Wright Edge Hill University
‘So How Do You Handle It?’ Lisa Miller Behaviour consultant Practical Tactics Consultancy
Generic Workshops (Suitable for practitioner in all sectors)
Welcome / Keynote Speaker: Faisal Ahmed / NQT TeachMeet
10.00 – 10.55
Early Years and Primary
Registration, networking and visit exhibition
9.30 – 9.55
Workshops: Delegates may choose any 3 of the following workshops
Conference Programme
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Workshop Activities and Leaders Generic workshops for all age ranges So How Do You Handle It? Lisa Miller Behaviour Consultant, Practical Tactics consultancy
In this behaviour management workshop, Lisa Miller will respond to specific examples from delegates and provide tailored guidance on how to manage individuals and classes across all age ranges who exhibit challenging behaviour.
Cooperative learning with Kagan Emma Rollins Teacher to Teacher (UK)
Emma is a teacher with 11 years experience covering all ages and abilities in secondary education. Emma is an outstanding teacher, and has been an Advanced Skills Teacher in Learning and Teaching for the last 5 years. She is a Certified National Kagan Trainer working with schools throughout the UK. In this workshop you will learn ways to release the power of Kagan Structures in your own classrooms at any key stage. You will find that when you use structures students are kinder to each other and enjoy class and academic content more.
‘Re-energise – creativity for the tired teacher!’ Sarah Wright Edge Hill University
A range of quick and easy ideas that will uplift lessons, show progress and creativity with minimum preparation. A practical session which will provide a toolkit of starters, plenaries and learning approaches that are ready to take straight back into any classroom.
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NQT Conference: Outstanding Teaching I 17th May 2014
Theatre of Learning: “The Magic Plane” Cross curricular creativity A Multisensory, Active and Experiential Approach to Learning Across the Curriculum Sue Phillips Theatre of Learning
This pioneering and innovative teaching method has been developed by AST Sue Phillips in her school in Southern England in response to disaffected pupils who said that RE was “nothing to do with them or anything that they knew”. They were so bored that over half of them refused to sit the final examination.
This fantasy story told in five episodes explored over a term, or a year has been adapted for younger children from The Island now used widely in secondary schools to provide a framework for RE. It also provides a cross curricular framework for teaching Citizenship, History, Geography, Values and whatever your imagination takes you to! It is a very engaging tool for building relationships in your classes through talking and listening in a circle and to develop critical thinking through the questioning engendered by the activity.
An Introduction to Forest School Alice Savery Shropshire Forest School
This workshop will involve going outside and playing in the natural environment (please wear suitable clothing and footwear). We will then return inside to discuss how Forest School is used as a learning opportunity and how this is linked to classroom work. This is suitable for all ages. Alice Savery is the Forest School Development Officer for Shropshire Council. She delivers Forest School Training and CPD courses. She also delivers Forest School sessions with a range of age groups from pre-school to Year 11.
‘Get that Job!’: Employability Jon-Leigh Pritchard ATL
Jon-Leigh is an Organiser for the ATL in the North West. Jon-Leigh has done considerable work in developing support for new entrants into teaching. He has extensive links with ITT providers and developed and delivered educational programmes across the country.
This workshop does exactly what it says on the tin!.
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Early Years and Primary workshops Using assessment to improve your teaching and the learning outcomes of your pupils Deborah Green Deputy Head Teacher St Thomas C.E. Primary School, Westhoughton, Bolton Deborah is currently the Deputy Head teacher at St Thomas C.E. Primary School, Westhoughton, Bolton, whilst being seconded for one day a week to Edge Hill University as a Partnership Lead Trainer. She has a wealth of experience having taught for 22 years in schools of very different social economic background across the Key Stages. At present she is in charge of the assessment procedures and analysis of data within her school, as well as managing the curriculum content and being the Science and RE leader. This workshop will look at how we assess, what to assess and what to do with the results, before considering how this affects the planning and delivery of future lessons. It will explain the bigger picture of how children are tracked across their Primary education at present and discuss the importance of this in uncertain times. This workshop is suitable for Key Stages 1 and 2.
Concept Mapping Strategies (Assessment in Primary Science) David Barker Edge Hill University
David Barker is Senior Lecturer in Primary and Early Years Science Education. He has taught for 12 years in both Key Stages and was part- time primary science consultant for Bury Authority for 5 years.
The workshop will focus on developing the use of concept maps as an AfL tool. Concept maps are very useful in showing children’s thinking which can be the starting point for science teaching. The workshop will share strategies with participants for developing their use in Key Stages 1 and 2.
‘Fun to be Five’ Alison Hughes EYFS teacher, St. Stephen’s CE Primary School, Bolton
Come and join in and dare to get those fingers dirty! A hands on workshop with lots of fun things to keep the funky fives focused! Alison is an experienced teacher of early years children who will provide a workshop with helpful handy hints, full of practical fun activities which are guaranteed to excite and engage early years’ children.
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Digital Literacy in today’s classroom Cherise Duxbury Computing Coordinator St Mary’s CE Primary, Bolton
Cherise has more than 10 years experience in the classroom and has taught across both key stages from year 1 to year 6. She is currently ‘Computing coordinator’ at St Mary’s C of E primary in Bolton. It was in year 6 that she first began blogging and it has helped to transform her teaching and the learning in her classroom as well as providing a great platform to engage parents. She has successfully blogged for 3 years with her blogs getting over 25 000 hits. In 2012 – 2013, her class won ‘Child Education’ class blog of the year and was a finalist in international ‘Edu Blogs’ class blog of the year. She will share her experience of using blogs to help engage and motivate the learners on today’s classroom.
The workshop will be focusing on ‘Cover it Live’ – a live blogging tool, 5 sentence and 100 word challenges, capturing audio using various tools and QR codes. This workshop is aimed at both key stages 1 and 2.
The use if ipads to support T&L Tanasha Robinson Literacy Leader, St Silas Liverpool
Tanasha is a Year 3 primary school teacher in Liverpool. She is Literacy leader and previous to that was ICT Leader. Tanasha utilises iPads to support teaching, assessment, and learning in all subjects.
The workshop will provide ideas of how to use various iPads apps to engage children in learning and extend activities across the curriculum. It will show how they can be used to create teaching tools that can be used to support teaching and learning and offer assessment opportunities. This workshop is more aimed at KS2. ‘Challenging contexts – teaching mixed age groups Yvonne Shone Farnborough Road Junior School, Southport
Yvonne is a highly experienced Primary school teacher. In this workshop she will share practical strategies of teaching vertical groupings in small schools including up to date strategies for differentiation.
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Secondary and FET workshops ‘Taking the temperature of learning’: Demonstrating progress Michelle Rathor Strategic Lead, Tameside LEA
Michelle is currently strategic lead for English across all schools in Tameside LEA. She will be introducing strategies that will help you to improve student engagement with their own progress and meet the needs of the lowest achieving pupils. Drawing upon her previous experience as Director of Teaching and member of the senior leadership team, Michelle will share the key classroom strategies for outstanding teacher and learning which can be implemented in your own school. This session will cover all subjects as ideas will be predominantly generic.
A Toolkit for Behaviour: working in challenging contexts Kirsty Pugh and Klare Athorn The Alternative School
Kirsty is the founder of an independent school called The Alternative School and Klare is Assistant Head. The Alternative School provides a focused approach to the barriers our young people face to school. The workshop will focus on i) How to survive your first year: create your own wheel of support; resilience and stress management; planning and preparation and ii) Behaviour Management: create a positive classroom; barriers to learning; nurture and restorative approaches.
Setting the right level of challenge Andrew Holt Assistant Headteacher, St Bede’s, Ormskirk
Andrew is a highly experienced teacher, Head of Department and Senior Leader. He has a wealth of experience and interest in enhancing Teaching and Learning. In this workshop Andrew will focus on one of the current key priorities for schools and Ofsted: differentiation and challenge. He will provide practical strategies on how to challenge all pupils in the classroom regardless of abilities. He will also focus on the use of data for planning, teaching and learning.
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Assessment in Colleges Paula Litherland and Kris Robinson Hopwood Hall College
This workshop will explore how colleges use data for the use of planning lessons and developing the environment for teaching, learning and assessment. Paula and Kris will develop your understanding on how to raise achievement and how to improve motivation of low performing students by setting strategies using the data available. Why be good, when you can be outstanding instead? Faisal Ahmed and Mez Munshi Stretford High School, Manchester
Finding out about a lesson observation is always daunting but how about if you had a sure way of keeping the students engaged, challenged and motivated without hours of tedious planning? We will showcase procedures and processes of outstanding lessons which we have either observed or delivered, thus developing strategies and techniques that will allow you to take a subject of your choice and plan, deliver and reflect upon a good or better outcome. Teacher’s as advocates for widening participation in Higher Education Louise Higham ARC Network
This workshop will encourage teachers to reflect on their role in promoting higher education to students of all ages, from primary school to post-16, irrespective of their background. The workshop will introduce activities and resources to support teachers in this role.
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The Edge Hill University NQT wiki All participants in the Edge Hill University NQT Programme will have access to the NQT wiki. This can be accessed via http://bit.ly/1crvqsd. The NQT wiki will host all the resources from this and previous conferences enabling you to download and adapt for your own pupils and students. The 'News & Updates' area will provide the latest information on matters concerning the NQT year.
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Exhibitors (Correct at time of going to press) We are keen to offer support and advice to our graduates and keep them involved in the life of the University. As an alumnus you can make use of a range of services designed to help graduates plan their careers, undertake further study or to keep in touch with us and each other. Alumni Team T: 01695 584861 E: alumni@edgehill.ac.uk FB: facebook.com/ehualumni
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ATL is the union for education professionals across the UK. Active in the maintained, independent and post-16 sectors, we use our members' experiences to influence education policy, and we work with government and employers to defend your pay, conditions and career development. From early years to HE, teachers to support staff, lecturers to leaders, we support and represent our members throughout their career.
Association of Teachers and Lecturers
Edge Hill University has successfully been awarded the prestigious “Confucius Institute”. Confucius Institutes are non-profit public institutions supported by an off shoot of the Chinese Ministry of Education known as Hanban. They aim to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching, and facilitate cultural exchanges. There are almost 300 worldwide with only 12 Confucius institutes in the UK. The Confucius Institute at Edge Hill University is able to offer a variety of courses for students, teachers and the community to develop an understanding of the Chinese culture and learn Mandarin Chinese.
Confucius Institute, Edge Hill University
The Schools’ University is working collaboratively with schools and their communities, to promote excellence and actively drive up and realise the aspirations of children, young people and their families. Schools’ University is offering a dynamic, meaningful and bespoke leadership accreditation framework which supports children and young people to empower themselves and their local and wider communities.
Schools’ University, Edge Hill University
As part of Edge Hill University’s commitment to nurturing and developing the next generation of outstanding Teachers we have been running the Tomorrow’s Teachers Programme for the last three years in 30 schools and Colleges.
Tomorrow’s Teachers, Edge Hill University
Designed primarily for sixth form students, but also now being run for pupils in year 10 and 11 interested in a career in education. The programme gives aspiring primary and secondary teachers a realistic taste of the demands of a typical teaching day and supports pupils, helping them to make a more informed career choice.
The course will help anyone interested in a career in teaching understand just what’s involved and decide whether or not it is for them before embarking on an ITT course or a degree.
If you think that your School might like to be involved in this exciting project or that you would like to help your pupils explore a career in Teaching or Education please drop me a line on ashtonm@edgehill.ac.uk
The Inclusion Team at Edge Hill University facilitate a variety of programmes including the National Award for SEN Co-ordination and PG Cert Specialist Dyslexia Training. Our innovative development activities focus on impact for school improvement, are practice-based and facilitate personalised learning. We also offer opportunities for teachers and support staff to engage in CPD Workshops incorporating a wide range of areas related to SEND and Inclusion which suit your development needs, supporting and strengthening your subject knowledge or specific knowledge and skills from Undergraduate to Masters level and beyond.
The Inclusion Team, Edge Hill University
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