Posts by Neil Brown

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #8 – High quality interactions   Audience – Staff working with all ages Time – 6 or 12 hours Develop an early years learning environment that prioritises high quality interactions. Audit your learning environment as well as planned language and vocabulary learning opportunities. Deepen leaders’ understanding of…

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #7 – Use Rosenshine’s principles to improve teaching and learning   This training can be delivered as a package (6 hours) or as individual components Bridge the gap between Rosenshine’s 10 principles of instruction and the cognitive science research that underpins them. Opportunity #7a – Introduction to…

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #6 – Curing the spelling headaches!   Audience – Key stages 1, 2 and 3 Time – 1 to 2 hours approximately Explore why spelling matters and the impact of being a weak speller. Research is explored and followed up with strategies to support application into writing.…

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #5 – Understanding effective leadership in early years as a headteacher   Audience – Headteachers and senior leaders Time – 6 or 12 hours Identify priorities for early years and begin to implement change. Consider the quality of provision in relation to the four key principles of…

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #4 – Phonics subject knowledge   Audience – EYFS, key stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 Time – 2 hours approximately Develop staff knowledge of the key concepts around phonics, including; considering what comes before phonics, the Simple View of Reading, the concepts of phonics and understanding…

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #3 – Planning for practice in mathematics   Audience – Key stages 1 and 2 Time – 1 to 1.5 hours approximately Unpick tasks and activities, look at how calculations are ordered, what stays the same and what changes and the questions that teachers should ask to…

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #2 – Diving deeper as a subject leader   Audience – Subject leaders, groups or individuals Time – 3 hours approximately Support for subject leaders to practise “talking the talk” to an inspector, governors or school development partners about their subject including; • the vision, • the…

< 20 Opportunities to improve your school Opportunity #1 – Helping words stick   Audience – Key Stages 1, 2, 3 and 4 Time – 1 to 3 hours approximately Explore what it means to ‘know a word’, how to select the right words to teach, and some effective strategies to use in the classroom,…