LEO Professional Learning Newsletter
LEO Professional Learning Newsletter
Thursday 4th July 2024
Thursday 4th July 2024
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Professional Learning Spotlight
Professional Learning Spotlight
Second year ECT Practitioner Inquiries
What a fantastic day at the @LEOacademies ECT Celebration & Presentation event!
The inquiry presentations were absolutely incredible & we were so proud of them all.
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with this fantastic group of ECTs throughout their induction!
Thank you to our ECTs for the fantastic presentations and to our SLT colleagues for joining the event also.
First year Mentors Online Learning Community
First year Mentors from across Sutton joined together for their final mentoring professional learning session of this academic year.
This session was a great opportunity to:
To develop a shared understanding of some of the key components of effective planning.
To explore how mentors can support early career teachers to develop their practice through collaborative planning.
To provide an opportunity for mentors to engage in deliberate practice of modelling their thinking as part of collaborative planning.
ECT School Visits at Cheam Park Farm
Thank you to @cheamparkfarm for hosting a school visit for ECTs across Sutton as part of the @HCACP_TSHub ECT Programme.
Brilliant to see teaching and learning in action across the school & to take part in a Q&A with the English and Maths leads.
A wonderful morning!
Second year Mentors Online Learning Community
UCL Mentors from across Sutton joined together for their final mentoring professional learning session.
This session was a great opportunity to:
Reflect on the programme as a whole.
Consider how you can support your ECT to develop their resilience.
Reflect on your own development as a mentor.ntas a mentor
ECT Professional Learning - Science
ECTs from @LEOacademies & @SuttonEdTrust joined together for a professional learning session focused on science. This included the opportunity to see science teaching and learning in action from EYFS to KS2.
Thank you to Cheam Park Farm for hosting the visit and to Miss F Gibney for facilitating the professional learning.
Publications, Vlogs, Blogs and News
Publications, Vlogs, Blogs and News
Effective Questioning for Retrieval Practice: What does the latest research say?
By Inner Drive
Retrieval Practice strengthens memory. However, the effectiveness of Retrieval Practice largely depends on the quality of the questions we pose to students. Fortunately a wealth of research exists about this. This includes different types of questions, the timing of those questions, as well as what should happen after they get asked.
So, read on if you would like to learn more about:
The significance of effective questioning during Retrieval Practice
Outline strategies for using these techniques in the classroom with examples
The latest research on effective questioning
Tips for using effective questioning for Retrieval Practice
Click here to find out more.
Major updates to Read&Write
By Text Help
Two years ago, Texthelp and Don Johnston Inc joined forces to provide the most comprehensive suite of tools for students, educators, and even beyond education, into the workplace. Since then we've been listening closely to our customers and what your needs are. The number one ask has been the availability of all the great tools in Read&Write, Co:Writer, and Snap&Read, all in one place. Now, the wait for that is over.
Click here to find out more.
How to do disciplinary literacy?
ByAlex Quigley
How pupils read, write, talk, and the vocabulary they use in every classroom is specialist and unique. There are general words and literacy strategies to deploy, but as pupils move up through school, the language they use gets more specialist and subject specific. As a result, the language of the subject discipline matters.
'Disciplinary literacy' matters.
Click here to find out more.
Oracy, dialogic teaching and maths mastery
By Maths no Problem
Classrooms should be places where children can express thoughts and ideas, engage in conversation and learn to be effective communicators. In other words, they should be in environments that support oracy.
Click here to find out more.
Five-a-day for pupils with SEND - a cluster of adaptive approaches
By EEF
What is adaptive teaching?
The Initial Teacher Training framework talks about responsiveness and ‘targeted support’, while Alex Quigley writes of the need for both ‘microadaptations’ and ‘significant adaptations’. Adaptive teaching is also described by Education Southwest as ‘being responsive to information about learning, then adjusting teaching to better match pupil need’, breaking it down into a 4‑step process:
1. Anticipate barriers
2. Plan to address them
3. Use assessment to elicit evidence of learning
4. Make in-the-moment adaptations
Click here to find out more.
External Professional Learning Opportunities
External Professional Learning Opportunities
Explorify Hosts Podcasts
In each podcast episode, an Explorify Engagement Leader hosts a conversation about an aspect of primary science with a guest expert. In their chat they share stories, tips and tricks and they signpost to other support and great resources.
Click here to find out more.
Introduction to Generative AI Learning Path with Google
This learning path provides an overview of generative AI concepts, from the fundamentals of large language models to responsible AI principles.
Find out more here.
Mind the Gap with Tom & Emma
In the show, Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe, Tom and Emma interview experts from the US, UK and beyond, and share timely insights on K-12 trends; research-based approaches in need of greater reach; and innovative strategies to close global gaps.
Click here to find out more.
The Open University - Open Learn
Design your own CPD with these free resources from The Open University, created for teachers and teaching assistants working across the UK.
All the content in this hub has been selected by academics across The Open University, specifically for teachers, teaching assistants and support staff working across the secondary, primary and early years sectors, including those involved in home education, special schools and pupil referral units.
Click here to access a range of online professional learning sessions from a range of areas.
WWF Training Courses
There are lots of free training courses available on the WWF website.
Climate Change and Climate System
ESD: Driving change towards sustainable schools
Click here to find out more.
LGFL School Staff Training
LGfL in school support, training and conference events are integral parts of the LGfL Energise curriculum service provided at no extra charge for schools.
Click here to see the training opportunities that are on offer.
Free short online course: Learning for a Sustainable Future
Join a personal and professional global learning journey towards a sustainable future. What on Earth could be more important?
Click here to find out more.
Becoming a Google Certified Coach
A Google Certified Coach is someone who is :
→ Eager to support educators
→ Wanting to drive impactful technology into classrooms
→ Looking to learn research-proven strategies & skills
Does this sound like you?
Click here to find out more.
On-demand training at your fingertips
View the Google on-demand series of webinars designed to help schools and educators in the UK and Ireland get the most out of Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks.
Whether you are an educator, Senior Leadership or IT Administrator you can find a session to suit you.
Click here to find out more.
Adobe Professional Development Courses
Find out all about the free professional learning opportunities on offer from Adobe.
Creativity for all
Adobe Creative Cloud Express in the Classroom
Engaging Video Projects in the Classroom
and many more...
Click here to find out more.
Free online professional development webinars for educators
Oxford University Press has a range of digital webinars to help you continue your professional development online. You can find links to recordings of previously-held webinars, as well as register your interest for upcoming sessions. The recorded webinars are available to watch on demand via Brainshark and you will receive a CPD certificate after watching each one.
Click here to find out more.
Financial Education - Free Online Teacher Training
Complete a free online course, in your own time and at your own speed…
The engaging eLearning courses are self-paced and take between 1.5-2.5 hours to complete. Along the way you will:
Learn how financial education can be made real and relevant to the young people you work with
See where financial education most effectively fits within your curriculum
Discover key tools to assist in the development of financial education
Find out how to access further support and resources to aid financial education delivery
Develop a financial education Action Plan for your own
Click here to find out more.
Developing Reading for Pleasure
Join the Open Learn FREE Developing Reading for Pleasure badged online course.
Developing the skill to read and the will to read are interrelated, however, this course focuses on the latter; it is an exploration of Reading for Pleasure and its significance for children’s lives and development. You will consider current research, debates and challenges that impact on children’s reading and gain knowledge and strategies to help you promote reader engagement across schools, homes and communities.
Click here to find out more.
Online PE CPD for Teachers
England Football's Online PE CPD for Teachers course is designed to increase confidence in the delivery of engaging, inclusive, high-quality Physical Education lessons through the invasion game of football.
Click here to find out more.
Free Anti-Bullying CPD online training
The following online training courses are available:
Click here to find out more.
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