How to teach teaching to teachers.
Plus ultimate guides to: instructional coaching, curriculum thinking, whole leadership coaching and who's hiring.
Hello everyone,
If you’re observing the month of Ramadan, Ramadan Kareem.
If you aren’t and want to know more about it, I recommend reading this excellent thread by We Are In Beta Community member Lilika Begum.
Learn more about her work as Enrichment Coordinator at Northampton Academy here.
Here’s to a successful summer term.
We - schools - Are In Beta - always learning.
This week:
🎧 Teaching Teaching - how do you teach teachers to teach?
🎥 Curriculum Thinkers - your ultimate guide.
📝 The Power of Coaching: how to embed a whole school approach.
💼 Jobs with We Are In Beta Community members.
🎧 Teaching Teaching.
How do you teach teachers to teach? How do you get your team to do it in the most impactful way? What happens when it doesn’t go to plan?
In episode 5 (Series 4), we speak to Josh Goodrich, Sarah Martin and Carly Mitchell about how they went about implementing instructional coaching at Oasis Academy South Bank. Josh also expertly avoids a potential banana skin I put in front of him.
Even if you aren’t thinking about instructional coaching at your school, this story is a master class in learning from mistakes and iterating whole school system design. So…
Curriculum Thinkers - 🎥 Your Ultimate Guide.
To help you learn more and get more from our Curriculum Thinkers Community - where schools share how they are developing curriculum in their contexts - we’ve created this ultimate guide.
A series of very short videos on how to access, where start and how to download the app.
Plus - how to catch up on dozens of master classes and subject leader meet ups, how to access hundreds of resources and how to get your school involved.
Check out the guide (and get free trial access) here.
📝 The Power of Coaching: how to embed a whole school approach to coaching.
Not be confused with instructional coaching, leadership coaching is about probing questions to help the coachee elicit the brilliance within themselves and achieve their goal.
“Having introduced the coaching programme now across three schools, I have seen first hand the impact it has had in encouraging staff to not only enhance their practice but also enable them to think differently about themselves and others. For some colleagues, it has helped them understand their leadership strengths and areas of development; others have found it a useful space to discuss and solve problems. Coachees have mentioned how effective it was in helping them reflect and improve in and out of the classroom. For many participants partaking in the programme, they wished they could have more time with their coaches because they realised how powerful it had been for them.
“So how does one go about setting up a coaching culture in a school?”
💼 Jobs with We Are In Beta Community members.
Looking for your next role? Read on.
Looking for your next team mate? Tell the We Are In Beta community why joining you is a great choice.
Leadership
Deputy Head (curriculum, teaching and learning and assessment) at Coleridge Community College (Cambridge).
Assistant Principal (Teaching & Learning) Colchester Academy (Essex).
Assistant Head (English & Literacy) Assistant Head (Science & STEM) at St Luke’s Church of England School (Exeter).
Assistant Principal (Inclusion) at Goresbrook School (Dagenham, East London).
Director of Learning & Enrichment at Oasis Restore (the UK’s first secure school) (Kent).
Middle leadership
Pupil Pastoral Progress Manager at Solihull Academy (Solihull).
Subject Leader of Maths at Martin High School (Leicestershire).
Head of Department English at The Rise School (Feltham).
Teaching
DT and English vacancies at Holyrood Academy, Somerset.
Maths at JFS, Harrow.
Science at St Luke’s Church of England School (Exeter).
Science at The Totteridge Academy (Barnet, North London).
Science at Noel Baker Academy (Derby).
Maths at Bedford Free School (Bedford).
Religious and Personal Studies at Colonel Frank Seely Academy (Nottingham).
Interested in these roles? Looking for your next team member?
The 10,830 strong We Are In Beta community can help…
Thanks for reading.
Hope you had a great break.
Speak soon.
@NiallAlcock and the We Are In Beta team
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