Key 'take-aways' for teachers

Return to your school with a renewed energy and enthusiasm for mathematics that will help you to:

• inspire both pupils and colleagues to make mathematics an engaging, exciting and relevant subject
• enrich whole-school mathematics teaching with activities that teachers and pupils alike will love
• develop a problem-solving mentality that encourages learning beyond the classroom in pupils from an early age
• transform your mathematics teaching style with access to a toolkit full of 'essential' resources

Nick is Assistant Head and SENCo at the 'outstanding' rated Radnor House independent school in Twickenham. In overcoming his own fear of teaching maths, he developed his teaching to an outstanding level, committed to making learning enjoyable for both pupils and teachers alike.

He was recently described by author and Guardian writer Phil Beadle as 'a talent at maths teaching on a national level' for his effortless ability to combine traditional and creative learning to powerful effect.

Learn strategies and techniques to:

• Optimise staff performance to deliver extraordinary results
• Drive up pupil achievement in core subjects and raise expectations of achievement
• Transform your school and your community by delivering real and lasting change
• Embed an improved school culture based on beliefs not targets

Dave Harris believes in pushing the boundaries of education to help pupils reach their potential. He believes that innovative partnerships, high expectations of both staff and students and being brave enough to do what you feel just might work are the secret to succeeding in these challenging times.

Dave is currently Principal of the highly innovative and successful Nottingham University Samworth Academy and author of Brave Heads and Are You Dropping the Baton? – A Guide to Effective Transition.

Learn skills and approaches you can put into immediate positive effect, including how to:

• Create a shift from negative to positive attitudes and behaviours
• Manage difficult feedback conversations
• Understand and overcome the psychological blocks to change
• Think imaginatively and creatively through conversation
• Encourage solution-focused thinking to trigger motivation and commitment to change
• Raise staff aspiration levels and create conditions in which they can thrive
• Be an emotionally intelligent leader
• Use coaching in meetings to improve efficiency and engagement
• Improve your own personal resilience and influence
• Create a coaching culture as part of your performance management programme for all staff

Andy has spent the past 35 years as a teacher, trainer and coach, working across the UK and internationally to support sustained improvement.

Andy learned early on in his career that it is what the teacher does, rather than what the child does, that is the deciding influence in most classroom interactions and this led him to develop his work in coaching and mentoring with both classroom teachers and school leaders.

• Explore how to use storytelling to engage children in maths and help them learn more easily
• Learn techniques to help children memorise maths facts
• Acquire new skills in maths problem generation that tap into the natural problem solving abilities of young children
• Explore how to use outdoor maths to generate creative and enriching learning experiences

Trisha Lee believes in letting children’s imaginations and creativity lead maths learning. This innovative approach has led her to develop a range of creative strategies and resources that help teachers boost pupil engagement in maths by making it fun and easier to understand.

Trisha is the author of numerous books including, Teaching Mathematics Creatively and Success in the Creative Classroom.

Outstanding assessment:

• criteria that is accessible to pupils and fuels self-improvement
• techniques to drive differentiated learning
• to personalise pupils' learning journeys
• that evidences learning and identifies areas for improvement

Ian has enjoyed a meteoric rise from his first teaching job in one of Middlesbrough's toughest schools to leading a team of 65 maths departments. With a national reputation for raising teaching standards, he is a phenomenon when it comes to bringing maths alive for the most disaffected, back-of-the-classroom student.

Sustainable progress through marking and feedback

• make marking matter to your pupils and to Ofsted/ESTYN
• gain techniques for effective feedback that fuels further learning and saves teachers' time
• know how to exploit AfL to maximise learning for all
• create tiered target-setting geared for self- improvement
• embed collaborative work and peer assessment into your lesson routine

Winner of the IPDA International Prize for Education and described by the TES as an 'inspirational, evangelical preacher of education', Nina is a tour-de-force when it comes to enlivening teaching to appeal to all learners.

Her second book ' Access All Areas' will give teachers the tools to ensure all children have access to all that the curriculum has to offer. Her background in thinking skills, technology for learning and SEND as a leading practitioner of Outstanding Learning & Teaching led her to devise the exceptional 'Therapy Programmes' – intensive interventions that support teachers working with disaffected and poorly motivated learners.

Workshop outcomes

Delegates will return to school:

• clear on the rationale for observation and its role in raising teaching and learning standards
• prepared to engage in peer observations that generate accurate and consistent judgements and will contribute to raising standards in teaching and learning
• confident in their understanding of Ofsted's judgement criteria and grade descriptors and how to evidence and demonstrate good progress against them
• skilled and informed on the best practice approaches to recording observations and delivering productive feedback

David has many years' experience as a section 5 and 8 Ofsted inspector, handling inspections across all phases and types of schools in the UK as well as in the Middle East and New York. He also has considerable experience leading schools out of challenging circumstances as a headteacher and associate head in the West Midlands. As an educational professional David is dedicated to helping schools make the most of the inspection process.

'The best free consultancy a school can get' is how he often refers to an Ofsted inspection! He understands the potential all schools have to be better at serving their young people, regardless of their background, and works to tailor his extensive experience to help any school with their individual circumstances.

'...the strategies shared during lesson observations were extremely helpful in terms of understanding the Ofsted framework and lesson judgements more clearly'

'Undertaking a joint observation with such an experienced practitioner was very valuable and gave me further insight into what inspectors are really looking for...'

Learn how to use simple classroom technologies to:

• Actively support curriculum planning
• Increase collaboration, creativity and communication in your classroom
• Engage and motivate your students to make exceptional progress in learning
• Support your existing teaching practice in a more time and cost efficient manner
• Build and sustain rapport with learners
• Deliver imaginative teaching and learning activities that will exceed Ofsteds expectations
• Create a buzz factor that enthuses and surprises students
• Generate dialogue – to increase understanding through discussion and questioning

David Riley is on a quest to inspire imaginative teaching through wonderfully simple technology. A former English teacher, David left the classroom two years ago to focus his attentions on the creation of a free desktop teaching application to help teachers all over the world create fun, interactive and engaging lessons.

• Develop a new set of teaching skills based on understanding how to engage the learning brain
• Hear how to boost pupil engagement and motivation and ignite a passion for learning
• Take away a range of highly adaptable, ideas, tools and strategies to use in the classroom
• Wow Ofsted with outstanding teaching techniques that will make an Ofsted inspection tingle with excitement

WILL RYAN

Will Ryan has over 30 years experience as a teacher, headteacher and local authority adviser. As a headteacher Will led a school that prided itself on genuine pupil creativity and was described by Ofsted as ‘outstanding’.

JONATHAN LEAR

Jonathan Lear is deputy head of a primary school in Sheffield. He has been working on his compelling mix of wonderful creativity, sound pedagogy and classroom risk taking for many years. Jonathan has a passion for taking the sorts of pedagogical risks that will ensure all children succeed in their learning.

Attend this course to discover the knowledge, skills and tools that will help you:

• lead your school in rapid, consistent and sustainable progress
• communicate and embed an ambitious vision that inspires a shared commitment to excellence across one or more schools
• empower staff and pupils to reach their highest potential
• build and maintain respectful and honest relationships that will support you and your school through times of change
• create a whole-school culture where professional dialogue about learning and teaching is highly valued and integral to the fabric of the school

Gill is the Principal of City Academy Bristol, and CEO of The One World Trust, which incorporates City Academy and Bannerman Road Community Academy. Both situated in the 14th most deprived ward in the country, Gill is faced with challenges of low literacy and numeracy levels and a significant number of students with English as an additional language and other additional learning needs.

At City Academy, Gill had the unenviable task of taking over from a popular and effective head and is now embracing the challenge of driving forward change and raising performance standards. The new partnerships, working practices and expectations are taking the school to the next level and bringing higher than ever results. Previously as a deputy she oversaw the transformation of teaching and learning through a major BSF project. Her book, Where Will I Do My Pineapples?, is based on this experience and focuses on the human face of change management.

Key themes include:

• how to immerse children in mathematics
• matching teaching styles to the needs of the 21st century learner
• hands-on approaches to tackling problem solving
• how to use an enterprise education approach to develop confident mathematicians
• exploring mathematics through stories and poetry
• taking mathematics outside
• activities to encourage creative thinking and independent enquiry
• how to plan and effectively implement inspirational approaches to assessment
• harnessing the power of team work to engage and boost learning
• embedding mathematics into the wider curriculum

Will Ryan has over 30 years' experience as a teacher, headteacher and local authority adviser. As a headteacher Will led a school that prided itself on genuine pupil creativity and was described by Ofsted as 'outstanding'.

His most recent book, 'Inspirational Teachers Inspirational Learners', was given 10/10 review in the Times Educational Supplement and described as 'the inspirational text that should be on the reading list of all educational administrators and on the bedside table of all school leaders and classroom teachers'.

• Bring to life high quality literacy in all curriculum areas
• Explore and exploit low-cost natural materials, the local neighbourhood and further afield
• Embed outdoor learning as an outstanding habit, not an add-on
• Use differentiated outdoor activities to boost attainment for boys and shy pupils
• Make crucial connections between literacy and the real world
• Rain or shine, it’s literacy outdoors all the time

Juliet is one of the UK's leading proponents of outdoor learning, having written several key Scottish outdoor learning documents on behalf of Education Scotland. She also designed and developed national Forest Kindergarten training for Early Years practitioners. Juliet writes the award-winning blog "I'm a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here!

• The low-down on number, money, measurement, shape, position, movement and data handling outdoors
• Use sticks, stones and playground markings to create challenges
• Outdoor tasks as an inclusive and diverse approach to teaching
• Practical guidance about lesson planning, a whole-school approach, resources, websites and assessment outdoors
• Whole-class activities to take outside all year round

Juliet is one of the UK's leading proponents of outdoor learning, having written several key Scottish outdoor learning documents on behalf of Education Scotland. She also designed and developed national Forest Kindergarten training for Early Years practitioners. Juliet writes the award-winning blog "I'm a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here!

• Raise whole-school literacy standards
• How to ensure every teacher is a teacher of English
• Techniques to develop oracy in all subjects
• Leadership tools to close the literacy gap

Wherever Phil teaches there are remarkable rises in English GCSE results - from 50% A-C in 2009 to 85% in 2011 in his current National Challenge School. He won Teacher of the Year, and a Royal Television Society Award for encouraging his pupils to read Shakespeare to cows and perform Kung Fu to learn punctuation in the TV series 'The Unteachables'. He has numerous educational bestsellers under his belt and is a columnist 'On Teaching' for the Guardian.

• Ofsted 2013: what it means for the perfect lesson
• The perfect lesson in 7 steps
• Effective AfL through assessment as learning, peer and self-tutoring
• Be fully prepared for no-notice observations

Jackie is the author of 2012's teachers' bible 'The Perfect Ofsted Lesson'. Through her varied career as a leading national and international educational trainer, headteacher, School Improvement Partner, AST, AST assessor and NLP Master Practitioner she has found the perfect formula for delivering and sustaining outstanding teaching and learning. She was even awarded an OBE for it.

• Fine tune your personal leadership skills and experiment with new techniques
• Translate your vision for your school into a roadmap
• Drive creativity inside every classroom to maximise pupil engagement and learning outcomes
• Identify key indicators and implement systems for self-evaluation and improvement planning

Will Ryan has been inspiring audiences all over Britain and further afield with his unique approach to primary school leadership. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book Leadership with a Moral Purpose.

Will maintains that our best schools are built from a deep understanding of the community they work in coupled with the passionate and deeply held views of school leaders. These outstanding organisations collaborate well but also work rigorously to fulfil their own unique vision.

Practical lessons and inspiring approaches to enhance the quality of your teaching and set you on the path to ‘outstanding’

• Create learning experiences brimming with mystery, fun, excitement and surprise
• Increase independent thinking, research and exploration with effective questioning techniques
• Encourage pupils to ask about “know-why” as well as "know-how"
• Build a truly creative classroom, where you can take risks on a daily basis and encourage students to do the same

Jonathan Lear is regarded as a true master of his profession. As an award-winning teacher and now deputy head of St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School in Sheffield, Jonathan creates amazing learning experiences through his daily practice that instil a desire to learn in all the children in his classes.

His ability to mix wonderful creativity, sound pedagogy and no small amount of professional risk taking has led to his involvement in a number of creative partnerships and projects including performance skills with Johnny ‘Think of a Number’ Ball. He has also delivered workshops and presentations for the local authority, networks of schools, and Sheffield Hallam University, as well as being a regular contributor to Teach Primary magazine. His work with Independent Thinking also saw him wowing audiences in Chile with his novel approaches to classroom success.

Delegates will go back to their classroom armed with:

• Practical wisdom to enhance your teaching practice and set you on the path to ‘outstanding’
• Strategies and ideas to create positive and engaging classroom climates for learning
• Teaching practices that promote effective student learning and progress across the curriculum
• Creative approaches to whole-school speaking and listening to develop students’ oracy

Phil Beadle has an undisputed reputation as an outstanding classroom teacher. A former Teacher of the Year award winner, he has the rare knack of bringing out the very best in one of education’s most hard-to-reach groups - disaffected students from inner-city schools.

A prolific advocate of the right to a decent education, Phil has written a column for Education Guardian for many years, and his recent "How to Teach" manual was awarded ten out of ten in the TES, who wrote of it, "There should be a national exam to check its message has been understood before all teachers take an oath, written in blood and sworn on their payslip, that they will implement at least some of Beadle’s ideas."

Key SEND update 2013:

• What the SEND green paper means for you
• A brief overview of government policy, legislation, code of practice and SEND reforms What are Ofsted demanding from all teachers and SENCOs?
• Ensure high-impact use of the Pupil Premium

Winner of the IPDA International Prize for Education and described by the TES as an 'inspirational, evangelical preacher of education', Nina is a tour-de-force when it comes to enlivening teaching to appeal to all learners.

Her second book ' Access All Areas' will give teachers the tools to ensure all children have access to all that the curriculum has to offer. Her background in thinking skills, technology for learning and SEND as a leading practitioner of Outstanding Learning & Teaching led her to devise the exceptional 'Therapy Programmes' – intensive interventions that support teachers working with disaffected and poorly motivated learners.

• Magical teaching and learning ideas to incorporate into your lesson planning - from SEN to G&T
• An armoury of engagement strategies to connect with different types of learners
• A solid understanding of how to implement inclusive learning through differentiation
• Learning with Literacy: An understanding of the 8 key learning behaviours

Winner of the IPDA International Prize for Education and described by the TES as an 'inspirational, evangelical preacher of education', Nina is a tour-de-force when it comes to enlivening teaching to appeal to all learners. Her second book ' Access All Areas' will give teachers the tools to ensure all children have access to all that the curriculum has to offer.

Her background in thinking skills, technology for learning and SEND as a leading practitioner of Outstanding Learning & Teaching led her to devise the exceptional 'Therapy Programmes' – intensive interventions that support teachers working with disaffected and poorly motivated learners.

Generate high levels of student engagement in every lesson
Acquire the skills to:

• Use lies, deceit, traps and trickery to lure students into outstanding learning
• Stimulate and sustain intrinsic learning motivators
• Build and sustain rapport with learners
• Ignite the passion for independent thinking
• Fuel eureka moments for students
• Liberate your teaching through unexpected dramatic, creative, and outstanding activities
• Develop your own pedagogy tailored to the personalities of your class

Hywel Roberts is a creative educator with sixteen years’ experience in the classroom teaching secondary Drama and English in schools, both rough and smooth. Hywel is now a freelance consultant and Independent Thinking Associate specialising in designing wonderfully engaging lessons through strategies such as Mantle of the Expert and Lures into Learning, proven to work across all phases of learning.

Literacy in 2013

• Literacy in the world of the New Ofsted Framework
• Moving children beyond learning to read, to reading well
• The relationship between reading, talking and writing
• Placing reading and writing in the real world

With a sparkle, Stephanie can transform even the most mundane literacy task, using levels of creativity and imagination that make the learning both engaging and memorable.

As a former classroom teacher and experienced literacy adviser, Stephanie has much wisdom to share from many hours of ‘hands on’ experience, in all sorts of schools, dealing with all sorts of children.

From good to outstanding teaching and learning:

• Lesson schedule
• Embedding challenge and support
• Independent thinking
• High impact outcomes

Ian has enjoyed a meteoric rise from his first teaching job in one of Middlesbrough's toughest schools to leading a team of 42 maths departments. With a national reputation for raising teaching standards, he is a phenomenon when it comes to bringing maths alive for the most disaffected, back-of-the-classroom student.

Benefit from Dave's wealth of experience in dealing with challenging and challenged students and return to your school with plenty of insight, tools and strategies to:

• better understand challenging behaviour in order to facilitate effective early identification and intervention
• embed a learning framework that will naturally lead to good behaviour
• give students more options and responsibility to find their own resolution to difficulties
• create a calm and purposeful learning environment that will give all students a fair chance to thrive and learn
• be better prepared to meet Ofsted's criteria for outstanding behaviour management
• execute a whole-school approach to behaviour management that is widely disseminated, readily understood and implemented by staff, pupils and parents
• make greater use of curriculum flexibilities to engage pupils at risk of disaffection

Dave Whitaker is Executive Principal at Springwell Community Special School, where the approach to the children in its care can be summed up in one phrase – unconditional positive regard. And while many teachers may have heard the phrase, at Springwell and under Dave's leadership, it is lived and breathed in every interaction. Before moving into special education Dave worked as a senior leader in a large secondary school where he was responsible for inclusion and Special Educational Needs. He is on the executive committees for the Yorkshire & Humber PRU & Special School Heads and is a tutor for The National College on the special school leaders programme.

Tools, techniques and strategies to:

• Give all staff the confidence to teach literacy skills explicitly
• Give students consistent, cross-curricular messages about reading, writing and oracy
• Create ‘literacy-rich’ classroom and whole-school environments
• Make literacy an integral part of every lesson plan
• Deliver outstanding Ofsted literacy standards
• Promote independent student writing and reading
• Engage parents in supporting school efforts to promote literacy
• Help students assess and improve their work
• Evaluate and measure the impact of your literacy initiatives and track pupil progress

David Didau is unrelenting in his efforts to understand what lies behind the transformation of teaching and learning. He is passionate about preparing himself, the staff in his department and teachers everywhere to be reflective about the science and art of effective pedagogy.

In his current role as SLT member and Director of English and Literacy at Clevedon School in North Somerset, David is not only working his magic within the English department (as laid out in his best-selling book ‘The Perfect English Lesson’) but leading literacy teaching in every lesson.

• How to get the best out of the new school autonomy for G&T pupils
• Supply the 7 step cure for talented underachievers
• Get the low-down from the latest best practice and case study
• Raise whole class engagement through differentiation

A former teacher, Associate Director of Nene College (University of Northampton), and now an internationally respected authority and author on gifted education, David is an inspirational tour-de-force in transforming gifted and talented provision in any school.

Don't miss this opportunity to:

• Re-energise your personal leadership skills with essential outstanding leadership tools
• Be a transformational leader confident in vastly improving your school's success
• Learn how to delegate effectively, empower your team and take risks with Distributed Leadership methods
• Embed creativity at the heart of the curriculum for independent life-long learning
• Deliver sustained improvement in teaching and learning through a coaching culture that drives performance management
• Promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development through parental engagement and whole-school strategies
• Build a collaborative local community equipped to meet the needs of the most challenging pupils

Speakers include:

Vic Goddard

Gill Kelly

Dave Harris

Dave Whitaker

Jackie Beere OBE

Will Ryan

David King