Leadership Short Courses

Training Overview:

This course explores the WONDER curriculum as a case study to show how school and subject leaders can create an engaging, effective, and well implemented curriculum in their own setting.  The WONDER Curriculum serves as a comprehensive framework that incorporates key elements, that we cover in this course. By examining the principles and strategies employed in the WONDER Curriculum, participants will gain valuable insights and practical tools to enhance their own curriculum implementation.

Training aims:

1. Examine the key components and features of the WONDER Curriculum.
2. Analyse the six-part lesson employed in the WONDER Curriculum and explore its application in different educational contexts. Explore the benefits of utilising Teacher Packs to support teachers and enhance subject knowledge.
3. Investigate the importance of mapping conceptual prerequisites or “golden nuggets”.
4. Provide strategies for responsive teaching with clear learning objectives to drive student achievement.

Intended Audience:

Senior Leaders and Subject Leads

Duration:

3 hrs

Price

£29.99 autumn introductory offer (usually £49.00) – offer applicable on September and October courses only

Availability

Booking Form: Leadership Short Courses

Training Overview:

In the first part of this three-part course, we considered how teacher educators identify what they want their teachers to learn, how to sequence a teaching curriculum and the mechanisms needed to help teachers to change their teaching practices.

Training Aims:

1. Attendees will leave with an appreciation of the persistent problems and a recognition of the importance of accurately diagnosing problems contextually.

2. To equip teacher educators with the knowledge and skills they need to sequence an effective teaching curriculum.
3. To have an overview of the EEF mechanisms needed to help teachers change their practice.

Intended Audience:

Teacher Educators – Leads in all subjects and years in primary and secondary phase.

Duration:

3hrs

Price

£29.99 introductory autumn offer (usually £49.00) – offer applicable on September and October courses only

 Availability

Booking Form: Leadership Short Courses

Training Overview:

In the second part of this three-part course, we considered how we can support teachers of all levels to effectively transfer what they have learned into their teaching practice. The ‘knowing doing gap’ can appear after delivering professional development, where teachers have acquired the knowledge but are not sure how to implement what they have learned.

Training Aims:

1. Attendees will consider the role of instruction and modelling to support teachers of all levels, to achieve transference to help avoid the “knowing doing” gap (EEF 2021).
2. To equip teacher educators with an appreciation of the role of formative assessment and feedback in preventing misconceptions within newly acquired teaching practice.
3. How to provide opportunities for teachers to gain insight and build greater awareness of the importance of the teacher knowledge that they are engaging in.

 Intended Audience:

Teacher Educators – Leads in all subjects and years in primary and secondary phase.

Duration:

3hrs

Price

£29.99 introductory autumn offer (usually £49.00) – offer applicable on September and October courses only

Availability

Booking Form: Leadership Short Courses

Training Overview:

The Wonder Learning Partnership has developed a unique approach to the Key Stage 3 English curriculum. Rich in substantive knowledge and mapped against the key disciplinary knowledge that we feel all pupils need; the curriculum is based entirely on the view that the curriculum is the progression model. This means that we teach the aspects of English that we believe have innate value and have created a curriculum that allows pupils to seamlessly transition from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4.

This course will talk you through our rationale and work-to-date and will invite you to join us on our curriculum journey.

Training Aims:

1. To explore the current research base around English curriculum planning.
2. To explore how to implement best practice, and how to introduce curricular changes

Intended Audience:

Heads of English and KS3 English leads.

Duration:

3 hours

Price

£29.99 introductory autumn offer (usually £49.00) – offer applicable on September and October courses only

Availability

Booking Form: Leadership Short Courses

Training Overview:

Knowing your subject as it grows and develops from Early Years to Year 6 and beyond – as well as how it manifests in the day-to-day experiences of children at your school is vital.  However, monitoring and evaluation can sometimes – at its worst – become an end in itself and lack efficiency. This course is designed for primary leaders seeking to enhance their subject review processes by conducting quick, incisive, precise reviews of their provision.

Training Aims:

1. An appreciation of subject review processes for improving school performance.
2. An understanding of the key focus areas and their impact on enhancing subject education – and how these align to a Deep Dive.
3. How to achieve curricular intent through teaching decisions and assessing the current effectiveness of this in school.
4. Developing effective targets and actions to foster a climate of high expectations where pupils’ love of subjects can flourish.

Intended Audience:

Subject leaders – all subjects, primary phase.

Duration:

3hrs

Price

£29.99 introductory autumn offer (usually £49.00) – offer applicable on September and October courses only

Availability

Booking Form: Leadership Short Courses

Training Overview:

This course introduces the concept of business intelligence and data analysis, and how it can be applied to the effective analysis and tracking of school attendance data. The course introduces Microsoft Power BI a powerful tool available to school leaders and attendance officers and explains how this can be used to build attendance dashboards to monitor and analyse attendance data to effectively target attendance interventions. No prior knowledge of business intelligence, Power BI or data analytics is required, although experience of working with Microsoft Excel and spreadsheets is helpful.

Training Aims:

1. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how business intelligence and data analytics can be used in their own setting to drive improvements in attendance tracking and interventions.

Intended Audience:

Senior Leaders, Attendance Officers

Duration:

3 hours

Price

£29.99 introductory autumn offer (usually £49.00) – offer applicable on September and October courses only

Availability

Booking Form: Leadership Short Courses

Conceptual prerequisites refer to the essential knowledge, skills, or competencies that learners need to possess or acquire before engaging in specific curriculum content or activities. These prerequisites serve as foundational building blocks that support students in comprehending and successfully engaging with new material. At Wonder we call these prerequisites “golden nuggets” in all of our planning to highlight their value and importance in the curriculum planning process. They are immensely valuable as they lay the groundwork for students’ understanding and progress within a particular subject or discipline. Securing these “golden nuggets” ensures that learners have the necessary foundation to grasp and benefit from subsequent curriculum components.

Training aims:

1. Understand the importance of securing functional prerequisites in curriculum planning.
2. Develop skills to identify functional prerequisites for effective curriculum design.
3. Learn strategies for aligning curriculum objectives with functional prerequisites.
4. Explore methods for assessing/ addressing gaps in students’ prerequisite knowledge.
5. Acquire tools and techniques to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of secured functional prerequisites in the classroom without creating additional workload.

Intended Audience:

Senior Leaders and Subject Leads

Duration:

3 hrs

Price

£49.00

Availability

Designed for secondary colleagues who aim to enhance their subject review processes by conducting quick, incisive, and precise reviews of their provision. By incorporating effective strategies and methodologies, participants will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to streamline their review processes while maximising the impact on teaching and learning.

Training Aims

1. An appreciation of subject review processes for improving school performance.
2. An understanding of the key focus areas and their impact on enhancing subject education – and how these align to a Deep Dive.
3. How to achieve curricular intent through teaching decisions and assessing the current effectiveness of this in school.
4. Developing effective targets and actions to foster a climate of high expectations where pupils’ love of subjects can flourish.

Intended Audience:

Secondary Subject leads

Duration:

3 hrs

Price

£49.00

Availability

At Wonder we have named our data and monitoring systems “Kingfisher” as we have been inspired by the habits of this remarkable bird: the system helps educators dive into the data, retrieve key developmental areas, and support targeted pupils.  Using Kingfisher, schools can identify which pupils are making the least/most progress, access progress scores for Year 6, track and explore attainment/ assessment information from Early Years to Year 6, and gain insights into areas of reading/mathematics that students need to work on.   Kingfisher also provides an automated governor report, streamlining the reporting process.

Training aims:

1. To understand the Kingfisher features/benefits for tracking pupil performance.
2. How to identify and target pupils who require additional support or are making significant progress using Kingfisher.
3. To explore the skills and curriculum analysis feature to drive pupil improvement.
4. To understand the automated governor report and its role in efficiently reporting pupil performance.

Intended Audience:

Primary leaders, primary teachers and primary administrators

Duration:

3 hours

Price

£49.00

Availability

In the final part of this three-part course, we will look at how we can support teachers’ development. What do we as teacher educators need to consider, to enable teacher improvement? How can we develop a coherent professional development in the culture of our schools and how we assess the effectiveness of professional development programmes.

Training Aims:

1. An appreciation of how to create a supportive professional environment and the impact that this can have on professional development and student outcomes.

2. The importance of aligning professional development with the broader school culture and the how culture and complexities can impact the effectiveness of professional development.

3. Finally we consider how we can assess the effectiveness of professional development and the possible limitations we may face.

Intended Audience:

Teacher Educators – Leads in all subjects and years in primary and secondary phase.

Duration:

3hrs

Price

£49.00

Availability

Feedback is one of the most impactful things that we can do as teachers. The DfE has highlighted, however, that marking and feedback contribute to teacher workload.

As subject or curriculum leaders, how can we design approaches to feedback that are evidence-informed, impactful and contribute positively to managing teacher workload?

Training Aims:

1.    To provide middle leaders with evidence-informed feedback strategies.

Intended Audience:

Subject and curriculum leaders, from KS2 to KS4

Duration:

3hrs

Price

£49.00

Availability

Are you new to subject leadership? Need an approach to monitoring your subject that is manageable? This course might be for you. This course shares the Wonder Learning Partnership Subject Leader monitoring documentation which is a one-stop resource for successfully monitoring the impact of your subject and setting clear targets for improvement. The trainer will lead you through the process so that you have the confidence to identify and address areas of under-performance in your subject area.

Training Aims:

1. Attendees will leave with all the models and formats they need to monitor the health of their subject.
2. To equip subject leaders with the knowledge and skills they need to run an effective monitoring process.

Intended Audience:

Subject leaders – all subjects, primary phase.

Duration:

3hrs

Price

£49.00

Availability

This course builds upon the previous course and extends the use of business intelligence and data analysis, and how it can be applied to the effective analysis and tracking of school Rewards and Behaviour data, to drive improvements in behaviour. The course explains how Microsoft Power BI can be used by school leaders and pastoral teams to build Rewards and Behaviour dashboards to monitor and analyse behaviour data to effectively target pupil interventions. No prior knowledge of business intelligence, Power BI or data analytics is required, although attendance at the first session or experience of working with Microsoft Excel and spreadsheets is helpful.

Training Aims:

1. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how business intelligence and data analytics can be used in their own setting to drive improvements in behaviour tracking and interventions.

Intended Audience:

Senior Leaders, Pastoral Leaders

Duration:

3 hours

Price

£49.00

 Availability

This course builds upon the previous courses and extends the use of business intelligence and data analysis, and how it can be applied to school research projects. The course explains how Microsoft Power BI can be used by school leaders to inform school improvement research models to test hypotheses and measure impact of strategies, including SEN and disadvantaged pupils. No prior knowledge of business intelligence, Power BI or data analytics is required, although attendance at the first and second sessions or experience of working with Microsoft Excel and spreadsheets is helpful.

Training Aims:

1. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how business intelligence and data analytics can be used in their own setting to drive whole school improvement through research projects.

Intended Audience:

Senior Leaders

Duration:

3 hours

Price

£49.00

 Availability

Training for new head teachers on what to expect in their first 100 days in headship. This course will cover some keys areas and actions to help make a positive start to a new headship/those in their first role as headship. it will also help you to develop your own approach to reviewing and rewriting your school’s core purpose, vision, and values.

 Training Aims:

This course will help to prepare you so that you know:

1. what to expect in headship and
2. how to establish your school’s core purpose, vision, and values through a consultative approach to headship.

Intended Audience:

New to headship/ head teachers changing schools.

Duration:

3hrs

Price

£49.00

Availability