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