Developing your Middle Leadership Skills as a TLR holder – 3-day Module Autumn

Course date: 22nd Oct 2024
This 3-day module is a rolling programme. The days can be completed in any order and can also be booked as stand-alone days.
£570.00 + VAT (20%)

Target Group: Teachers/TLR holders keen to widen their understanding and practice of evaluating and improving learning
Day 1 - Tue 22nd October 2024
  • Values based leadership
  • Balancing the moral imperative to lead with effective systems and processes
  • High quality evaluative practices for your areas of responsibility
  • Writing evaluatively
Day 2 - Wed 19th February 2025
  • CfW: what is going well, what needs to be better
  • What is high-quality teaching and how to develop it
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • How to evaluative quality of teaching
Day 3 - Wed 4th June 2025
  • Action planning
  • Middle leadership types
  • Holding difficult conversations
  • Success at interviews

course attendee quote What people say about the Middle Leadership Skills course...

"Very well structured and thoughtful content that I'm sure will have an impact in school." "Useful advice and guidance around CfW, assessment and ALN. Diolch yn faur." "Really useful content and ways for myself to move forward and drive my responsibilities. Great content  - has given me lots to think about!" Course attendees 10/11/21

              

Course Presenter: Gareth Coombes

LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT/ ASSESSMENT for LEARNING - Gareth Coombes is an Educational Consultant, he has 17 years’ advisory experience. Previously he has worked as a Challenge Adviser, a Lead Adviser in Newport LA, with a key responsibility for leadership and teaching and learning across the city's 54 primary schools. Prior to that Gareth worked in Torfaen and in an earlier life was a very successful primary headteacher. Gareth Coombes is an Estyn Inspector of both Key Stage 2 and Foundation Phase. He is experienced in international working, particularly in the Far East, most recently in Dubai and Myanmar. In his INSET, he will outline successful strategies, citing the many instances of excellent and good practices that he observes on his travels. His Inset is underpinned by up-to-date educational research. He believes in supporting schools with the 'how to do it' as opposed to the 'what to do'. His style is engaging and varied! He tells it as it is! He has presented at range of conferences. Gareth’s fields of expertise are all aspects of leadership and effective teaching and learning. He has created a series of supportive educational products, particularly Leadership Continua, Middle Leaders Continua, Continua for LSAs, Continua for Kids and materials to support effective self-evaluation and work scrutiny! Most recently he is supporting schools in writing high-quality and much shorter SERs! In partnership, he has re-launched Teaching Continua, currently used in over 500 schools, as an on-line developmental self-evaluation tool for teachers and school development. Gareth Coombes is currently working on materials to support schools in developing Successful Futures. Search for Courses

Course Location: South Wales - Cardiff

ADDRESS: Future Inn, Hemingway Road, Cardiff Bay, CF10 4AU
  START TIME: 8.30am coffee and registration for a 9.00am start
 
The Future Inn, Cardiff Bay https://www.futureinns.co.uk/cardiff/