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Teaching and Learning Guidance September 2025
Teaching and Learning Guidance September 2025
Improving the quality of teaching: a key enabler to curriculum reform
Improving the quality of teaching: a key enabler to curriculum reform
Highly effective schools have improved the quality of teaching across their organisation consistently. They have achieved this through a well thought out strategic approach to improving quality, which includes professional learning. They do not rely on 'off the shelf' materials, instead they tailor their approach, focussing on:
how leaders ensure high-quality teaching and learning,
how teachers refine and improve practice,
how leaders identify PL to ensure highly effective teaching practices.
The document aims to:
develop teachers’ and leaders’ understanding of the Curriculum for Wales framework
provide guidance about the importance the quality of teaching as the key enabler to curriculum reform
explore the importance of articulating the expectations of a shared whole school approach to teaching and curriculum planning
identify the forensic elements that impact most on the quality of teaching, pupil progress and wellbeing, through effective self-evaluation and improvement planning
signpost leaders and teachers to relevant professional learning and resources
support the recommendations outlined in ESTYN’s report of 2022 “The Curriculum for Wales - How are local authorities supporting schools?”
How should we use this guidance?
How should we use this guidance?
This document should be seen as a starting point to consider the relationship between effective teaching as an enabler to curriculum reform. By that we mean, how effective whole school approaches to teaching, alongside effective curriculum planning can support all schools in developing their Curriculum for Wales provision. This document aims to support coaching and mentoring conversations with staff, which in turn will support improved knowledge and skills in understanding the effective characteristics of teaching and curriculum planning. This document also provides supporting professional learning resources to help school leaders and their staff to improve the quality of teaching and learning in their school or setting.
Please contact the relevant EAS Team member for a copy. The resource is also available via the Hwb EAS information sharing site in the folder 0 - Resources, look for your LA specific version.
Caerphilly version
Blaenau Gwent version
Monmouthshire version
Newport version
Torfaen version
Professional Learning - An introduction to the Teaching and Learning guidence
Professional Learning - An introduction to the Teaching and Learning guidence
Introduction to the teaching and learning guidance
Introduction to the teaching and learning guidance
A half day half day session aimed at senior leaders. Leaders will become familiar with the new teaching and learning guidance and how it can be used to develop teaching and learning across their own school.
Resources :Teaching and Learning Guidance, including templates.
Leadership of Teaching and Learning
Leadership of Teaching and Learning
Developing a teaching and learning strategy
Developing a teaching and learning strategy
Bespoke support available from leadership and teaching team on how to develop a clear, concise teaching and learning strategy. See examples of strategies below. Contact daniel.davies@sewaleseas.org.uk for more information.
Teaching and Learning Programmes
Teaching and Learning Programmes
We offer a range of programmes that compliment out teaching and learning guidance. Programmes can be tailored to the needs of individual need schools, and facilitated in a variety of ways e.g. INSET days, twilights, staff meetings. Contact daniel.davies@sewaleseas.org.uk for more information.
Examples of programmes
Examples of programmes
- Clarity in teaching - aimed at teachers and TAs. Participants will explore learning intentions, co constructing success criteria and bump it up walls.
- Effective questioning - aimed at teachers. Participants will be introduced to effective questioning strategies and implement them in their classroom.
- Challenge, expectations and differentiation - aimed at teachers. Practitioners will explore practical ways of differentiating and implement strategies in their classroom.
For more information contact - daniel.davies@sewaleseas.org.uk
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