St Michaels Catholic High School Teaching Learning CPD

St Michael’s Catholic High School Teaching & Learning CPD ‘SNAPSHOTS’ DATE THEME T&L LEADS 26/02/15 Setting & selling the vision in the classroom Personalised learning for our different students STF / NME 19/03/15 AEP / MAM 23/04/15 Teaching strategies for boys and girls SJH / SPC 14/05/15 Asking the right questions KSV / ATH 11/06/15 Staff well-being and minding ourselves LD / MJL 02/07/15 Teaching the sixth form ATP / STF 8. 15 – 8. 30 AM / ROOM 2 / REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED “If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. GUY KAWASAKI They are society’s heroes“

CPD ‘SNAPSHOTS’ AIMS To utilise the ‘in-house’ expertise of our own staff to lead and deliver continued professional development sessions on areas of significance and areas of need, improving standards of teaching and learning in the classroom as a result. SELF-EVALUATION It is hoped that each member of our teaching staff is able to identify their own area(s) for development (EBI’s) in their day to day teaching and select ‘snapshot’ sessions that are appropriate to them. Some of these areas for development may be informed by your previous lesson observations i. e. is there a part of your teaching that is consistently highlighted as being an area for improvement? WHAT WE ASK… We encourage you to attend as many of the ‘snapshot’ sessions as you choose to, from now until the end of the academic year. We also ask that if you have an area of expertise or a significant strength, please let us know. We would like you to lead a session. CONCEPT One ‘snapshot’ session every three weeks (Thursday’s) Each ‘snapshot’ session lasts for FIFTEEN minutes only Sessions run from 8. 15 – 8. 30 am sharp The outcome and outline of each session are summarised on the T&L blog Refreshments / hot drinks provided FOLLOW UP… Following each ‘snapshot’ session, a learning walk will take place around the school. This could be anytime in the three weeks following the session. The focus of the learning walk will include looking at theme from the ‘snapshot’ session. Ultimately, along with lesson observations, work scrutiny and feedback from external agencies, we can use these sessions and the subsequent follow-up to improve the standards of T&L across the school.