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Woodlands School

Woodlands School. World class professional development and Training School. What are training schools?. Training schools are at the heart of the Government’s agenda for a world-class school workforce.

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Woodlands School

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  1. Woodlands School World class professional development and Training School

  2. What are training schools? • Training schools are at the heart of the Government’s agenda for a world-class school workforce. • They should lead the way in recruiting, training and developing their staff. Training schools ensure that this expert knowledge and practice is disseminated through collaborative outreach with partner schools, local authorities, higher Education institute (HEI) providers and other relevant agencies that contribute to the well-being of the child. • Training schools receive £60-90k of funding (dependent on pupil numbers), of which at least 50 per cent must be used for outreach to other schools.

  3. Woodlands School • 1500 pupils. • Large urban 11-16 Community school in Basildon. • Numerous awards. • All staff (teaching and support staff) have CPD and Performance Management.

  4. Vision for CPD at Woodlands • Having a highly professional workforce of teaching and support staff who are: • Confident in their teaching, subject and administrative expertise. • Committed to working cooperatively with other staff, schools, partnership colleges and universities. • Research, development, reflection and evaluation. • Committed to finding new ways to demonstrate good practice in teaching and teacher training. • Committed to professional development which centres on raising standards in the classroom and developing the full potential of all pupils in order to raise standards. • Committed to developing new skills and tackling innovation demanded by legislation, technology and professional growth.

  5. Key aims of our Training School: • To increase the skills, knowledge, understanding and application of staff, teaching assistants, support staff, trainees and local partner schools in the areas of: • Classroom management • Strategies for gifted and talented pupils • Multicultural education • Management of adults /support in the classroom • ICT for teaching and learning • Enhanced leadership and management competencies

  6. Raising Achievement through Professional Development

  7. Types of professional development (CPD) on offer… • Weekly induction/workshops for GTPS,ITTs and NQTs. • Weekly induction through line management. • Weekly CPD workshops for all staff- focused on teaching and learning. • External and internal courses. • International CPD.

  8. Types of professional Development on offer: • Research and development projects. • Job enrichment and job rotation. • NPQH opportunities. • Leadership and middle management opportunities with the London Institute and NCSL. • Cambridge Diploma course for Support staff. • Visits/teaching in primary and 6th form colleges • Mentoring opportunities.

  9. Types of professional development on offer: • Lesson observation and feedback. • ICT Training (twilight and whole school). • Participation in Review groups and sub review groups. • Performance Management. • Presentations at Governors meeting and SMT. • Participation in department reviews.

  10. Types of professional development on offer: • Timetabled curriculum development. • Department and whole school residential conferences. • Delivering Inset to colleagues and for other schools/colleges/providers. • Participation in Year Team/pastoral workshops. • Shadowing opportunities- pupils and staff.

  11. Outreach Work • Work with LA in delivering ARRA and ICT Courses at Woodlands (150 GTPS are trained each year) • Local network meetings -Secondary schools- James Hornsby and De La Salle. Also invited Chalvedon and Barstable, Bromfords and Mayflower and two LA representatives. Those who cannot attend we have introduced a newsletter. • We have also worked with the NHS in developing a DVD on Mental health and are planning another collaborative project.

  12. Outreach Work • PA Dept work with our special School- Castledon and our local secondary schools produce joint festivals. • We also attend HEI(Anglia Ruskin) steering Group meetings . • PA staff teach in local primary school cluster. • MFL teacher teaches and supports De La Salle for 3hrs a week.

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