Creating Outstanding Primary Classrooms

Outstanding primary classrooms can be created when dedicated professional teams place children at the centre of their vocation and ensure that every child matters. By doing this they can reduce the achievement gap between children from different backgrounds. There are a number of factors that are key contributors, namely; appointing staff of the highest quality and investing in and developing them; treating children as individuals, supporting them well and expecting them to achieve well; having staff who are passionate about finding ways of doing things better, with an unremitting focus on learning, development and progress; and demonstrating high-quality leadership to promote, support and sustain the drive to perfect teaching and maximise learning.

A clear common factor across the successful primary is having high expectations. These expectations come from strong values and they are set in a way that leaves everyone – pupils, parents, staff and governors – clear about what they are. It is then important that those high expectations are applied consistently and never relaxed.

In primary schools a key driver is centred on putting children first and faith in what children can achieve and teachers can do. Transformational school leaders with a belief that all pupils can achieve high standards, given sufficient time and high-quality support, is an important background to the creation of an outstanding primary classroom.

Objectives

This is a course aimed at creating outstanding teaching and learning in the primary classroom. A copy of the specially written book ‘Sparkling Classrooms’ will be available to course participants.

Rooted in Roy Blatchford’s observations of over 8000 classrooms around the world, he will share practical ideas and approaches against the backcloth of the new Ofsted framework, and the 2012 Teachers’ Standards, which he co-authored.

Attendance at this course will provide you with a knowledge and skills set that you will be able to take back to your classroom to the benefit of your school and institution, including:

• The journey to the classroom
• The fun and fundamentals of learning
• Values and expectations
• Knowing your subject
• Knowing your students
• Smart Classrooms
• Interventions and digressions
• To teach is to learn
• Reflection and evaluation
• What have I learned as a teacher

25/09/2013 09:30 - 15:30