Ashlawn Teaching School
Ashlawn School is an 11-18 bilateral mixed secondary school in Rugby. Our strapline of ‘transforming lives through learning and leadership’ declares our commitment of offering outstanding educational provision for our students and staff.
Becoming a Teacher through Ashlawn Teaching School can occur through many routes: we support our universities (Warwick, Nottingham Trent, Leicester and Newman) through their core PGCE course; Schools Direct applicants train mostly at Ashlawn and are supported by our partners (Cambridge Partnerships and Leicester University); the School Experience Programme allows potential teachers to gain a 10-day work experience through Ashlawn. The strong partnerships that exist between Ashlawn and our schools ensure that trainee teachers are supported and developed in different contexts and benefit from a range of different experiences.
Training and Developing Teachers and Leaders is an area in which Ashlawn has specialised for many years. We have worked closely with the National College and other institutions as a provider of professional leadership training. We offer a range of training and developmental programmes to help teachers transition into leadership and for leaders to develop their expertise at different levels. Our bespoke programme of coaching, mentoring and teacher training ensures that teachers who train with us are equipped with the latest evidence-based research, pedagogy and skills-sets to maximise the learning, progress and achievement of young people.
Supporting Schools to Improve is a collaborative partnership process with sharing, learning and developing being at the heart of a culture of self-sustaining improvement. Support can come in many guises whether it be intensive support from an experienced NLE or specialist and targeted support from SLEs or just sharing what works in different contexts from teachers and leaders who have been successful in their area of expertise.
We are pleased to take enquires and these should be made directly to Ashlawn School by using the email dixonl@ashlawn.org.uk or by telephone on 01788 573425.
Southam Teaching Alliance
Southam College are proud to introduce the recently established Southam Teaching Alliance, based in Coventry and Warwickshire. We work closely as an alliance of secondary, primary and special schools and universities. Our vision is to use expertise and collaboration (both within and outside our alliance) to secure outstanding learning opportunities for students, through a practical, teacher-centred approach.
Networks
Our initial work will be in developing purposeful networks across schools, education phases and subject areas. These will provide educators opportunities to develop valuable links with other professionals to share ideas, strategies and resources. We feel this is especially important at a time of significant curriculum change.
CPD
We are building a collection of professional development opportunities that will suit a wide range of school contexts, time frames and staff (from trainee teachers and support staff through to experienced middle and senior leaders). These will include:
· Innovative twilight sessions and workshops, focussing on practical strategies.
· Experience days - offering practical elements of training within a school environment.
· Longer term CPD programmes – spanning a term or a year.
· Developing a team of Specialist Leaders in Education - to facilitate the sharing of excellent practice and work between schools, on a department / one-to-one / school need basis.
It is of upmost importance to us that all CPD opportunities are led by practicing teachers and leaders with a proven track record of excellence and we will be advertising most of our CPD offers in 2017.
School-to-school work
Bespoke school to school connections – both informal as well as more structured – are always mutually beneficial so please get in touch if you would like to link with any school to develop an area of interest. This might be just popping in for a morning to look at one aspect of learning, teaching, achievement or leadership or setting up a longer term relationship and programme. We pride ourselves on our links with others and our professional relationships, developed by getting to know needs and contexts fully in order to find the best CPD and school to school connection experiences to meet current and evolving needs.
We would love to hear from you, whether it’s about CPD opportunities you would like to see being offered, staff in your school who would like to be involved in extra opportunities or to discuss staff visiting another school to look at practice within a particular area of interest.
Laura Edmonds, Head of Teaching School: morris.l10@welearn365.com
Jo Gough, Teaching School Coordinator: gill.j1@welearn365.com
Karen Davies, Primary CPD Co-ordinator: davies.k6@welearn365.com
For further information you can also visit the website: http://www.southamcollege.com/teaching-school
The Community Academies Trust Teaching School
The CAT Teaching School is a unique blend of two Teaching Schools; The Polesworth School and Birchwood Primary. Covering a wide geographical area including Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Telford & Wrekin, we operate in a variety of contexts, bringing about continuous school improvement in our local areas across primary and secondary sectors.
Teacher Subject Specialism Training (TSST)
Working in partnership with Birmingham City University and the University of Plymouth, we offer FREE TSST Courses in Year 6/7 Maths, Secondary Maths, French and Physics to:
- Qualified teachers whose initial training was not in these subjects and who find themselves spending a considerable time teaching them
- Teachers who are returning to teaching after a career break;
- Teachers from a different phase of education.
- Initial Teacher Training – School Direct
Our Alliance offers both salaried and non-salaried training places in both primary and secondary settings and provides the opportunity for trainees to experience teaching in a wide variety of contexts. All of our training courses are supported by University of Warwick or University of Chester.
We strongly advocate school based ITT training to sustain and develop the teaching workforce in schools. The benefits of engaging with this route are:
You are more likely to recruit the right person for you;
You can customise the training to suit the needs of your school and trainee;
Your trainees get on board very quickly;
You will snap up the best new talent;
We represent our partners at national and regional Train to Teach events in Birmingham, Derby, Shrewsbury, Coventry and Nuneaton. Attendance at these events has led to a number of successful recruitment outcomes and we intend to maintain our presence at these high profile events in future.
Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE)
Bespoke Subject Knowledge Enhancement courses are available to trainees who receive a conditional offer of an ITT place. We deliver courses in Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry Geography, D&T and French. These can be from 8 to 36 weeks and can be completed by distance learning in some subjects. Bursaries are available for trainees and courses can be undertaken either before or during the ITT training course.
For further information please see our website http://catteachingschool.org.
Alternatively you can contact:
Michelle Borders, Teaching School Administrator at m.borders@thepolesworthschool.com; tel: 01827 702205.
Alexis Rickus, Deputy Headteacher The Polesworth School and Director of Teaching School A.Rickus@thepolesworthschool.com
The Griffin Teaching School Alliance
The Griffin Teaching School Alliance represents a group of schools drawn from a wide range of different contexts. Together we are committed to building a networked learning community which supports the development of the education system across our region. If you are interested in joining a Teaching School alliance we welcome schools who are happy to share their expertise with others in a cooperative.
As a Teaching School our offer is broad, from responsibility for CPD for Newly Qualified Teachers on behalf of the LA, to bespoke training for schools around specific issues. We support a team of Specialist Leaders of Education who can be deployed to assist in their defined areas of expertise.
We help to recruit and train graduates into teaching through the School Direct recruitment programme.
Our activities are cross-phase; we support a Primary Partnership group who run development sessions such as lesson observations and training for teaching assistants. This group has developed along the lines of the established Secondary Partnership Plus group which we now administer.
A recent innovation has been our Teaching and Learning Programme, aimed at teachers who want to improve their teaching practice, deliver consistently good lessons and have the capacity and commitment to improve. As part of this course delegates have the opportunity to observe outstanding teachers in action, as well as providing a range of teaching and learning methods to develop the skills and techniques to deliver in school.
Since 2012 we have held a license to deliver National Professional Qualifications for the National College. These courses, at Middle Leader, Senior Leader and Headship levels are helping to secure leadership succession for local schools.
This is only a snapshot – we aim to respond to need as it arises, and are not bound by a portfolio type offer.
Please contact us for more information.
Gwen Temple, Deputy Headteacher: gwen.temple@lawrencesheriffschool.com
Caroline Horne, Teaching School Manager: caroline.horne@lawrencesheriffschool.com
Or call direct: 01788 843789
http://www.lawrencesheriffschool.net/national-teaching-school
THE TEACHING SCHOOL ARE RUNNING TWO EVENTS THAT SCHOOLS MAY BE INTERESTED IN:
Newly Qualified Teachers Welcome to Warwickshire Event /assets/1/warwickshire_welcomes_2016_flier_1.pdf
National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership programme /assets/1/npqsl_cew1_flier.pdf