CPD Courses & INSETs

School Improvement & Development Conference for School Leaders

Join TT Education, the UK’s leading school improvement and training company, for two impactful days of learning, networking, and discussion. Our experts in education will provide a programme full of knowledge-rich presentations, inspiring breakout sessions and networking opportunities.

A Guide to Teaching Maths at Key Stage 3 for the Non-Specialist

This course will build on advice from groups like DFE and NCETM to develop a pedagogy that delivers high-quality and highly engaging maths lessons at Key Stage 3. We will look at how we can be creative in maths, as well as the importance of applying maths skills in a range of contexts.

Achieving Excellence in Remote Learning (2-Part Series)

Whilst of particular importance during the COVID era, remote learning is unlikely to disappear as a feature of education in the future. In this two-part on-demand series, we bring together theory and best practice from across the country, to help you navigate this complicated - and sometimes frustrating - area of pedagogy.

Achieving Excellence in Vocabulary Acquisition

Have you heard of the 'Word Gap' - the large disparity in how many words children hear at home before they reach school age? This engaging short course outlines five powerful approaches to help your children acquire vocabulary, and use it in more sophisticated ways.

Achieving Greater Depth in English

What does it take for your children to achieve greater depth in both reading and writing? This fast-paced, practical, one-day CPD course shares the secrets behind school-wide strategies for success.

Achieving Greater Depth in Maths

How can you help your pupils to achieve greater depth in Maths? This one-day CPD course shares the secrets behind strategies for success.

Active Learning in English

Talk, collaboration and active learning are the three foundational approaches of TT Education’s award-winning Path to Success model. Children who can move while learning are more engaged and better behaved, and more likely to retain the knowledge and skills they gain in so doing. This course looks at physical literacy in English, including its spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Active Learning in Maths

Part of our ‘Active Learning’ portfolio, this course focuses on ways to get your children up and out of their seats in maths lessons. Physical tasks promote better behaviour, engagement and retention, as well as being great fun! This one-hour course will leave you buzzing, with dozens of great ideas you can implement the very next day.

Active Learning in Science

This one-hour course - part of our ‘Active Learning’ portfolio - is packed full of engaging ways to get your children moving in their science lessons. With full body engagement in a task comes increased retention and focus. These active tips and ideas will support your children’s progress in science.

Active Learning in the Foundation Subjects

Children who can move while learning are more engaged and better behaved, and more likely to retain the knowledge and skills they gain in doing so. This training - part of our 'Active Learning' portfolio and a companion to our Active Learning in the Humanities short course - looks at physical literacy in DT, art, music, foreign languages and computing.

Active Learning in the Humanities

Physical literacy refers to active methods of teaching and learning across the curriculum, and not just in P.E. Research shows that playful and active approaches allow children to disaggregate knowledge and piece it back together in a way that better suits their own brain and personality. This training - part of our 'Active Learning' portfolio - looks at physical literacy in the humanities.

An Introduction to Senior Mental Health Leadership in Schools

An Introduction to Senior Mental Health Leadership is a practical course for leaders who may be new to leadership or the role of senior mental health lead. This course has been assured for DfE grant-funded senior mental health lead training.

Art Leader Curriculum Support

The new Ofsted Inspection Framework marks a significant shift in focus, but what does this mean for your school? This three-part programme series tells you everything you need to know about the Framework, from the perspective of Art leadership.

Assessing Learning in the EYFS: Developing Observations of Children

One of the most important roles of the early years practitioner is to assess the progress of children to ensure that the learning opportunities are correctly matched to the individual child’s needs. This course will consider the best types and combinations of observations for successful progress.

Assessment for Learning

Our Back-to-Basics series focuses on the skills that underpin good quality classroom teaching. This course provides an essential guide to Assessment for Learning.

Assessment in the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

‘Start with the end in mind’ - said by more than one leader in education thinking. What does this mean for assessment? And how does this apply within the new Ofsted Inspection Framework?

Bar Modelling in Mathematics

Children often struggle to understand mathematical ideas if they move towards the “abstract” too quickly, and one of the most helpful pictorial approaches is the bar model. Watch this short course for a full explanation of how bar models work, and how they can help your children towards maths mastery.

Building Pupil Resilience

Resilience is a bit of a magic word in education: when you get it right, children learn from failure, persist in practice, manage fall-outs, overcome distractions, and much much more! So how do we teach resilience? 

But I Just Want to Play! Practical Ways to Support Reluctant Learners

Despite the wide variety of activities and learning opportunities available within a setting, there are always some children who are difficult to engage in certain areas of learning. This course will consider a range of practical ways to give children opportunities to succeed.

Challenging Conversations for SENCOs

This short course will provide SENCOs with practical tips and ideas on how to manage challenging conversations with staff and parents.

Challenging Conversations: Feedback and Support to Improve

Supporting staff can be fraught with challenges. Choosing the right tone, approach, setting to convey your message so it has impact is tricky.  Maintaining improvements after that initial conversation can be trickier.  How can we improve, whilst keeping people on board?

Challenging Pupil Behaviour & How to Overcome It

Discover ways to improve pupil behaviour at your school. This practical course provides a range of strategies and approaches to classroom practice that can help.

Character Education in Primary Schools

Alongside academic attainment, children’s personal development must surely be at the heart of a school’s purpose. Within this category, we find so-called ‘character traits’ like honesty, kindness, resilience and creativity: but how do we teach such abstract ideas? How do we assess them? And how do we find space for this in our already-busy timetables?

Child-led Learning: How to Capitalise On It and How To Manage It

Many researchers, past and present, have advocated for child-led learning in the early years. Children who are able to lead their own learning are also children who take more ownership over it and are more engaged in the learning process. 

Classroom Management Skills for Support Staff

This course will help support staff understand the psychology of the classroom, provide a range of strategies to cope with low level disruption and to ensure the behaviour does not reoccur. You will be given a series of practical evidence-based approaches to help manage your own feelings and the behaviour of learners. 

Closing The Gap: Raising Attainment For Disadvantaged Pupils

Accelerate the learning of disadvantaged pupils. This dynamic course inspires teachers and leaders with proven strategies to enable our disadvantaged children to reach their potential.

Coaching and Mentoring in Secondary Schools and FE

Coaching and mentoring has benefits far beyond the actual one-to-one or group sessions. It can change the culture of the school and create a sense of community and belonging. Peer mentoring provides learners with a range of life skills and the whole programme can use TAs, support coaches, grounds staff, administrators etc., as well as teachers, thereby creating a sense of cohesion throughout the school or college. This course will focus on skills that can be useful for mentoring both young learners and adults.

Coaching for Children: Empowering your Students to Drive their own Learning

Empower children by taking a step back, whether that’s in problem solving, restorative approaches in the playground, or metacognition in the classroom.

Coaching for School Leaders

As a school leader, you know that the value of coaching within your school cannot be underestimated. Discover the full power of successful, effective coaching with this inspirational course.

Cognitive Development in Practice: Creating Thinking Schools

This course provides real-world, practical ideas to help support schools in developing their ‘thinking learners’, giving ownership of that learning process back to the children, to improve outcomes from Early Years through to Year 6.

Come Rain, Hail or Shine: Using the Outdoors to Enhance Learning

Outdoor environments offer unique learning opportunities that simply cannot be experienced indoors. This on-demand short course explores the many proven benefits of outdoor play - come rain, hail or shine!

Composites and Components: Designing and Delivering a Knowledge-rich Curriculum

Curriculum design is at the heart of the 2019 Ofsted Framework, and knowledge is at the centre of that. This course explores Ofsted’s “in-house” model for examining curriculum progression, and how it can be used to support effective and engaging learning.

Computational Thinking in the Early Years

Computational thinking is not about computing - it’s about thinking! If we can start early in laying a great foundation for thinking, we set our children up to be resilient, purposeful thinkers in every part of their lives. This course is vitally important for all children in all subjects. Great habits for brilliant thinking are best started early.

Computing Leader Curriculum Support

As, arguably, one of the most transferable and universally necessary subjects on the curriculum, leading computing is a big responsibility. This course will ensure you are fully prepared, with dozens of practical, easy-to-implement ideas for improving pupil outcomes and monitoring and evaluating computing provision across the school.

Computing or ICT? How Children can Achieve Well in Digital Literacy and Computer Science

We often joke that children know more about computers than adults; this can lead to a crippling lack of confidence among teachers, and the issue has been exacerbated by the 2014 Curriculum’s shift in focus away from traditional software literacy, towards programming and computer science.

Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract: Supporting Understanding for All Pupils

With the development of teaching for mastery in maths, the need for variation in approach and context has become a vital part of the learning process. Along with this comes the need for children to be supported in their understanding in a variety of ways. One of the most effective ways is through the use of the concrete-pictorial abstract approach.

Creating a Broad and Balanced Curriculum

This exciting CPD course will support primary school leaders in designing and implementing a coherent, rich and varied curriculum that will benefit pupils of all ages.

Creating a Curriculum of Wonder: Irresistible Learning in Special Schools

How do you maintain academic rigour, high expectations, pupil engagement AND meet the wider requirements of children with complex needs?  This interactive course will take you through the stages of curriculum design, all with a special needs focus.

Creating Challenge: Greater Depth Across the Curriculum

What does ‘challenge’ really look like? Is it about doing more versus going deeper? Do whole-class approaches inhibit the required level of focus on the individual child? In this short course, we share a range of strategies that have worked to engage and challenge pupils towards greater depth of thought, improved reasoning and higher outcomes.

Creating Collaboration

Collaborative learning structures are one of the most cost-effective ways to increase progress, but many children struggle with the basic skills required: sharing, listening, turn-taking and so on.

Creative Outdoor Learning

An exciting and inspirational approach to developing learning skills and content at all ages for those eager to find out the benefits of being outdoors.

Creative Teaching of Grammar

This one-hour course will provide you with a multitude of ideas to get your staff and children excited about grammar. While grammar is traditionally seen as a stuffy, dry area of the curriculum, it can actually be really fun and interesting - find out how to engage your children to ensure they are using grammar purposefully and accurately.

Creative Teaching of Punctuation

Does the idea of teaching punctuation get your staff excited? Smile? Stare thoughtfully at their notepads? We’ve encountered all of the above, and have responded with this highly-engaging training session aimed at one key thing: to make punctuation fun!

Creative Teaching of Spelling

Do spelling lessons get your staff excited? Smile? Stare thoughtfully at their notepads? We’ve encountered all of the above, and have responded with this highly-engaging training session aimed at one key thing: to make spelling fun! This course will leave you energised and excited about the teaching of spelling.

Creativity in the EYFS: Getting Messy Has a Purpose!

Messy play is much more than just play and mess - it’s creativity at a whole new level. It gives children the opportunity to develop their imagination, curiosity and solve problems.

Deep Learning: Developing a Toolkit for Revision, Study and Exam Skills

Effective study skills have been identified as a way of improving the performance of all learners and of closing the gap between boys and girls. This course will look at a range of tried and trusted techniques, but will also move beyond the recognised approaches we may be familiar with, to look at new, creative and specific approaches to learning that will both support exam/revision skills and encourage deep learning.

Developing English GDS through Classic Literature

It can be difficult to challenge strong readers at primary, because they often run out of age-appropriate material to read. A powerful solution can be to use children's literature from years gone by: it fulfils our 'cultural capital’ obligations, but it's also an exciting way to engender higher-level learning.

Developing our Teaching Staff: Effective Lesson Observations, Learning Walks and Feedback

There have been many recent studies looking at evidence-based approaches to lesson observations and learning walks in order to make sure that these make a valuable contribution to the development of teaching and learning. Lesson observations are now seen as part of the Ofsted ‘deep dive’ and it is essential that as senior and middle leaders we have a clear idea of how our curriculum is actually being implemented in the classroom. However, lesson observations also have an important role to play within the school’s own development path, as a way of not only identifying where support may be needed but also as a fantastic way of sharing great practise.

Developing Outstanding Subject and Middle Leaders

This informative and practical course will help you to understand, and make progress in, your role as a primary subject leader or middle leader.

Developing Strong Senior Mental Health Leadership in Schools

Embed and sustain a strong, long-term strategic approach to mental health and wellbeing in your whole school setting with this practical and evidence-informed course. This course has been assured for DfE grant-funded senior mental health lead training.

Developing Writing: Engaging Ways to Support Children in Acquiring Early Writing Skills

Writing is a key skill for children to begin to develop in the early years. Writing is a key skill for children to begin to develop in the early years. Through purposeful activities and engaging stimuli we can support children in developing these early literacy skills and an enjoyment in writing.

Disciplinary Knowledge in Computing

“Disciplinary knowledge” became a bit of a buzz-phrase in education in 2021, and this has caused some anxiety for teachers and leaders across the country. This short course explores what the term means within computing, and (more importantly) how to teach it.

Disciplinary Knowledge in Geography

This short course explores what the term ‘disciplinary knowledge’ means within geography, and (more significantly) what it means in the context of your classroom. With practical, tangible advice, this will be the most useful geography course you can find.

Disciplinary Knowledge in History

In its 2021 subject inspections, Ofsted found that ‘disciplinary knowledge’ was a major weakness in history teaching. The requirement is certainly a cause of some anxiety for primary teachers but we hope to allay your concerns with this informative short course.

Disciplinary Knowledge in PSHE

This short course explores what the term ‘disciplinary knowledge’ means within PSHE, and (more significantly) what it means in the context of your classroom. With practical ideas and strategies, this course will help to deepen your understanding and practice of PSHE.

Disciplinary Knowledge in Science

“Disciplinary knowledge” became a bit of a buzz-phrase in education in 2021, and this has caused some anxiety for teachers and leaders across the country. This short course explores what the term means within science, and (more importantly) how to teach it.

Don’t Drown in the Deep Dive: What to Expect from the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

Uncertainty can lead to fear, which is not a great place from which to make decisions. Let us help you navigate areas of uncertainty around the new ‘Deep Dive’ language and methodology. This course will help you can prepare straight-forward strategic actions to help you implement improvements where you need them.

Don’t Fear the Blank Page: Using Poetry to Inspire Writing

The writing process is complicated, with lots of competing requirements, and this often makes it overwhelming for children. However, poetry can provide an engaging and empowering ‘way in’ to this process.

Drawing on Reading to Inform their Writing: The ‘Chunking’ Approach

English GDS criteria require that children are able to draw on their reading to inform their writing. In this online session you will find out about TT Education’s popular ‘chunking’ approach which teaches children to use high-quality literary and grammar analysis. They learn to unpick the ‘author’s craft’, find and identify the ‘effect’, and ultimately give their own writing a proper purpose.

DT Leader Curriculum Support

The 2019 Ofsted Inspection Framework changed things for subject leaders significantly. This three-part programme series tells you everything you need to know about the Framework, from the perspective of DT leadership.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: Art and Design

This course takes you through Art and Design in the new Early Years Framework, including in its revised Early Learning Goals. You will discover a host of different ways to approach Art and Design in the Early Years.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: DT

A new EYFS Framework takes effect in September 2021, and one of its changes is a stronger emphasis on the "subjects" that we are perhaps more familiar with in key stage curriculums. This course will give you all the information you need to adapt your current provision to meet the needs of the new Framework.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: Geography

Following the introduction of the new EYFS Framework, many settings are concerned with ensuring their provision meets all the new requirements. This course will take you through the main changes and support you with identifying any necessary changes.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: History

This course will support all Early Years practitioners with understanding the main requirements of the new Framework’s approach to History learning. With a series of practical and easy-to-implement ideas, you will leave feeling supporting and prepared.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: Music

Discover the music requirements of the new Early Years Framework, with this fantastically practical and comprehensive course. We will identify the differences between the old and the new Frameworks and discuss how to adapt your provision accordingly.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: PE

The new Early Years Framework has altered what it means to teach P.E. in the Early Years. Discover how with this practical course, which will provide you with all the information you need to enable your children to succeed.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: RE

With the introduction of a new-style EYFS Framework in September 2021, R.E. in the Early Years has changed. This course will take you through the differences between the old Framework and the new, with a series of fun and practical ideas for implementation of the latest requirements.

Early Years Curriculum Tracking: Science

To meet the new science requirements of the EYFS Framework, you will need only one thing: this course. Within it, you will find a rundown of the differences between the old Framework and the new guidance that came into force in September 2021, as well as a series of practical suggestions for altering your provision where necessary. 

Effective Performance Management for School Leaders

Discover how to manage the performance of your staff in a positive way that will support the improvement of their day-to-day performance.

Effective Whole-Class Reading

The face of education and the approaches we use when teaching are constantly changing. Approaches to the teaching and learning of reading skills are no different. Many schools are moving away from guided reading approaches and more towards whole class teaching of reading skills.

Empowering Support Staff in Secondary Schools and FE

Support staff can be a powerful tool, as part of an ambitious curriculum and in creating inclusive learning. Sometimes, though, they are left struggling to find direction, or to feel valued as part of the school team. This one-day course will explore ways to avoid this and keep support staff feeling valued and enthusiastic.

Empowering TAs in Primary Schools

Teaching assistants make up a quarter of the primary workforce, and they can be a powerful tool in creating inclusive learning. Sometimes, though, they are left struggling to find direction, or to feel valued as part of the school ‘team’.

Enabling Environments: How to Develop Your Learning Spaces

The publication ‘Development Matters’ (Early Education, 2012) highlights the importance of: engaging environments where children feel safe to take risks and explore; where rich learning experiences are designed to meet individual needs; and all learning is valued.

Enabling Support: Getting the best from your TA

TAs make up a quarter of the primary workforce, but they sometimes don't have the impact that we - or they - would like. How can we strengthen the teacher-TA relationship to get the best outcomes for children? This specially-extended on-demand training session expands on some of the ideas in our 'Working With Your TA' short course.

Engaging Parents

Some schools have very high levels of parental engagement - but it’s not just down to demography… so how do they do it? In this on-demand short course we will explore different ways to engage parents in home learning and beyond.

Equality, Equity, Justice: Protected Characteristics in the Primary Phase

This on-demand training session looks at the place of ‘protected characteristics’ in the new Relationships Education guidance, investigates ‘accidental discrimination’, provides you with the ‘politically correct’ vocabulary, and gives advice on how to improve your pastoral care – so that everyone’s school experience is positive.

Essential Skills for Front Line and Office Staff

Front line or office staff are often the first people visitors to the school encounter – they are the ‘directors of first impressions’. This course will explore how to get the best out of these staff to help the school or college project the image it wants to a range of ‘customers’ and provide an outstanding quality of service.

Everyone is a Leader: Looking at Leadership, Vision and Team-Approaches to Developing EYFS Practice

One of the main reasons for working within a school or early years setting is the desire to support children in their learning journey and personal development; but to do this effectively, everyone needs to be on the same page. This course will support you with ensuring that your EYFS practitioners are all working together towards the same goal.

Five Ideas for Primary Art

The new Ofsted framework rightly places an emphasis on the foundation subjects. This course will provide practitioners with simple ideas to reframe their planning and teaching in primary Art.

Five Ideas for Primary Computing

Computing in the 21st century is very different from what most staff learned in school! So how best to teach it in an interesting way that will support pupils’ progress? This course will give you some quick wins to enable you to plan for your pupils’ success.

Five Ideas for Primary Geography

This is a high-impact, quick-win course that will give all geography practitioners some simple and fun ways to engage pupils and improve outcomes.

Five Ideas for Primary History

Discover a series of hints and tips to make primary history accessible and enjoyable for pupils. Focusing on the analytical skills and foundational knowledge needed for excellent history practice, this course is high impact and great fun.

Five Ideas for Primary Music

Music teaching is a wonderful way to reach children on a different level to more traditionally “academic” subjects. These hints and tips will ensure your music teaching is accessible and engaging.

Five Ideas for Primary P.E.

With the new Ofsted framework’s greater emphasis on the foundation subjects, many teachers have felt quite daunted. This training will provide practitioners with simple ideas to reframe their planning and teaching in primary P.E.

Five Ideas for Primary R.E.

Discover some simple, easy-to-implement ideas to not only meet but exceed the objectives of the National Curriculum for R.E. This is a high-impact injection of fun that will quickly increase pupils’ outcomes.

Geography Fieldwork in the Primary Phase

Fieldwork can be described as anything outside that involves geography talk, geography thinking and geography skills. But how do you ‘pin that down’ to make it meaningful and engaging for children? This course explores the concept of fieldwork and provides you with lots of teachable ideas.

Geography Leader Curriculum Support

In our global society, an understanding and appreciation of geography is paramount. This course will give you a host of great ideas to ensure that your geography provision, monitoring and evaluation across the school is fully compliant with the requirements of the new Ofsted Inspection Framework.

Getting Boys to Read and Write

Gender differences can start appearing very early in children’s attitudes to learning, and an age-old problem is that of getting boys to engage in English. This on-demand training session will take you through some exciting but easy-to-apply ideas for increasing boys’ enthusiasm for this core subject, and strategies to expand that renewed interest into the foundation subjects too.

Getting Children to Talk About Art

This course introduces you to the key concepts, vocabulary and history that you need for a high-quality art curriculum at primary school, and provides you with a range of practical ideas to embed this knowledge in the classroom.

GPS Leader Curriculum Support

With a host of practical ideas, this course will provide all the information you need to ensure that your school’s GPS provision meets the requirements of the new Ofsted Inspection Framework.

GPS SATs 2022: 'Head Start' Workshop

There is always a lot of worry about SATs in the summer. To support teachers and leaders in preparing for these tests, this practical half-day course revisits previous grammar and spelling SATs papers, and provides you with a range of effective strategies to prepare your pupils for the summer.

History Leader Curriculum Support

With the publication of Ofsted’s new Inspection Framework comes a greater emphasis on non-core subjects like history. This course will ensure you have all the tools to meet - and even exceed - their expectations, considering ways to improve, monitor and evaluate your provision.

How Tall Was the Beanstalk? Finding Maths in Everyday Stories

The power of storytelling has long been understood by teachers, but maths is not a common context. Teachers do sometimes create their own mathematical narratives - to help procedural fluency in particular - but we can go further and discover mathematical ideas in real literature.

Improving Pedagogy: Developing Quality First Teaching in Primary Schools

The EEF says our “top priority” to improve outcomes should be “ensuring an effective teacher is in front of every class, and that every teacher is supported to keep improving”. This idea is often called ‘Quality First Teaching’, but how do you actually do that? This engaging course will give you some clarity - and dozens of practical ideas!

Improving Phonics Provision in the Early Years

Phonics is a key skill for children in learning to read, write and develop language. It is the precursor to actual reading and comprehension so it must be given the appropriate amount of attention in the early years. This five-part course will develop your schools understanding of early years phonics and explore different activities to support your children on their phonics journey.

Improving Wellbeing for Children

Help all pupils to become autonomous, resilient, flexible learners by focusing on their emotional awareness and wellbeing.

Improving Wellbeing for Teachers and Leaders

Gain experience of practical, insightful and proven strategies to monitor, maintain and grow wellbeing for your staff.

Inspired To Lead: National Leadership Programme

The Inspired to Lead National Leadership Programme aims to create leaders at every level and is suitable for all primary senior and middle leaders and those aspiring to leadership positions.

Interventions that Work: Getting the Most out of Support Groups and Booster Groups

This on-demand training session looks at ways to structure interventions to ensure they are effective; and it suggests ways to mediate any negative impact on the rest of the class.

Introduction to Supporting Learners with SEND

As teachers, we will encounter learners with special needs in all sorts of different contexts and, of course, we will encounter a wide range of special needs. These may manifest themselves in lots of different ways and have lots of different causes. Although these needs can sometimes be seen as a barrier to learning, we must also recognise the strengths these learners often have. This course will provide the essential overview in order to identify, understand and make reasonable adjustments for these learners.

It's Good to Talk: Speaking and Listening to further Learning

One of our mantras at TT Education is that "Talk is thought" – that only when you talk something through can you realise if you've properly understood it. But in an oracy-poor society how do we develop our children's speaking and listening skills, to support and improve their learning? This course outlines the rationale for talk-based learning, provides suggestions for developing children's talk, and goes through dozens of pedagogical approaches that are based on talk.

Key Skills Series - Avoiding Unconscious Bias

In recent months and years we’ve become more aware of ‘systemic’ and indirect discriminations - the sexism, racism and ageism we might all be guilty of, without even realising.  This course offers practical ideas for increasing our awareness of the issue, and suggests things we might do to address the problem.

Key Skills Series - Being a Great Admin Assistant

When someone says “school worker” the word “teacher” probably springs to mind, but other roles make up a large and vital section of the school workforce. This course - part of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series - supports new administrative assistants in carrying out their duties.

Key Skills Series - Being a Great TA

TAs make up a significant proportion of the school workforce, but they sometimes don't have the impact they would like. What does the job involve and how can we be the best that we want to, to support the children we care so much about?

Key Skills Series - Building Confidence

Do you suffer from ‘imposter syndrome’ - that crippling feeling we all get, that we are ‘not good enough’ for our role in school? This course suggests that confidence is not just useful but perhaps even a duty to our colleagues.

Key Skills Series - Communicating with Others

The businessman Paul Meyer once said, “communication is the key to personal and career success.” But how much do we actually practise this important life-skill? This course offers tips for improving your communication, to help you get the best out of the team around you.

Key Skills Series - Dealing with Parents

Learning is a process that does not solely take place in school. Parents play a pivotal role in a child’s education and development, and it’s vital that we engage with them and include them as much as possible.

Key Skills Series - Electronic Etiquette: Working with Phones and Email

Part 4 of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series looks at the range of ‘soft’ skills you need in any workplace. This course supplements the previous session (on written communication) to explore what professionalism looks like in emails, and also over the phone.

Key Skills Series - Filling Your ‘Soft Skills Basket’

Part 4 of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series looks at the range of ‘soft’ skills you need in any workplace. This session covers a range of competencies that are valued by employers: things like creativity, critical thinking, resilience, problem-solving and change-management.

Key Skills Series - Knowing Your Rights in the Workplace

How do we ensure that our experience at work is as positive as it should be? How do we know that everyone is ‘playing by the rules’? This introduction to employment law aims to help you keep safe, but also to enjoy work as much as you deserve.

Key Skills Series - Leadership at Every Level

Part 4 of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series looks at the range of ‘soft’ skills you need in any workplace. This session explains what employers mean by ‘leadership’ skills, and gives you tips and suggestions to help you improve.

Key Skills Series - Looking after your Wellbeing

Moving into the world of work can cause anxiety even at the best of times, let alone in a high-stress industry, or in a workplace that doesn’t operate as well as it should. This course - part of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series - explores ways that you can improve and maintain your wellbeing.

Key Skills Series - Moving On: Getting Your Next Job!

A good leader is one who empowers their employees to reach their true potential - and sometimes that means they need to move on to a new job! This course brings our acclaimed Key Skills in Educational Settings series to a close by offering a range of useful ideas to help you in that transition.

Key Skills Series - Organisational Skills

Part 4 of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series looks at the range of ‘soft’ skills you need in any workplace. This session gives you tips and suggestions for getting more organised.

Key Skills Series - Preparing for Interview

How do you ‘ace’ an interview? This course is packed with ideas for getting that promotion, or for applying to a different school, or even using the principles for things like grant application.

Key Skills Series - Safeguarding Children

Aside from personal development and academic success, our top priority as educators must always be to keep children safe - in school but also within their home environment. “Safeguarding” may be an emotionally draining part of our job, but it is probably the most important.

Key Skills Series - The Appraisal Process

How do we ensure that our experience at work is as positive as it should be? How do we know what is expected of us, and what support we should expect in return? This course explores the world of performance management.

Key Skills Series - Understanding Children at Primary

When the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote that “children understand”, he of course meant that adults don’t.  He believed - or at least his famous character believed - that adults understand neither the things that children care about, nor even the children themselves. But for anyone working in education, this understanding must surely be their first aim.

Key Skills Series - Understanding Children at Secondary

Not for nothing is it said that teenagers seem like a different species! From poor decision-making skills to impulsive behaviour, it is often impossible to understand why teens make the choices they do. But for anyone working in education, this understanding must surely be their first aim.

Key Skills Series - Understanding School Jargon

Every industry has its own jargon, and it can sometimes make newcomers feel unwelcome. This course - part of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series - will help you navigate your way through the words and phrases used in schools.

Key Skills Series - What is Professionalism?

What does it mean to be a professional? What behaviours and skills can we reasonably expect from our co-workers? This course explores the idea of ‘professionalism’ and suggests ways to develop your skills and understanding, to help you improve your own - or your team’s - efficiency and effectiveness.

Key Skills Series - Working with Others

How do we empower our team to be the best it can possibly be? As an individual, what role can you play in that journey? This course - part of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series - explores a range of ideas to help you work better with your colleagues so that, ultimately, the children will benefit.

Key Skills Series - Writing a CV

What is a CV? What is a resumé? How do you navigate through the internet’s vast range of often-contradictory advice? Session 2 of our highly-acclaimed Key Skills in Educational Settings series is aimed at younger/newer employees, but it’s also of interest to more experienced staff for their mentoring work, or even for their own needs.

Key Skills Series - Written Communication Skills

Part 4 of our Key Skills in Educational Settings series looks at the range of ‘soft’ skills you need in any workplace. This session will help you professionalise the way you write reports, memos, letters and other forms of written workplace communication.

Languages Leader Curriculum Support

Outstanding Languages provision gives our children an appreciation of other cultures that promotes empathy and understanding. This course gives you guidance and advice, provides you with dozens of practical ideas, and suggests ways that you might monitor, evaluate and above all sustain high standards in Languages.

Leading English in the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

This workshop-style course will unpick what is expected from leaders of English, focusing on staff development, clarity of vision and consistency. It will help you to develop clear next steps on your journey to excellence, and balance the new OFSTED framework requirements against managing workload and wellbeing.

Leading Foundation Subjects in the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

This course focuses on clarity, consistency and staff development to unpick what is expected from foundation subject leaders, help you to develop clear next steps on your journey to excellence, and balance the new Ofsted framework requirements against managing workload and wellbeing.

Leading Maths in the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

With a focus on staff development, ensuring clarity of vision, consistency and how to use monitoring to best effect, this course will unpick what is expected from leaders of maths, help you to develop clear next steps on your journey to excellence, and balance the new OFSTED framework requirements against managing workload and wellbeing.

Leading Science in the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

With a focus on staff development, ensuring clarity of vision, consistency and how to use monitoring to best effect, this course will unpick what is expected from leaders of science. It will support leaders in ensuring a clear balance between managing workload and wellbeing, and meeting the requirements of the new Ofsted framework.

Learning in the EYFS: Choosing the Right Approach

There are many different approaches to learning in the early years: pre-planned or 'in the moment', play-led or formal. But which one is the right one for your setting?

Let’s Play All Day: The Importance of Learning Through Exploration, Investigation and Real-Life Experiences

TT Education’s Path to Success methodology rightly places great importance on the need for context and purpose in learning. This is never more vital than in the early stages of learning, and learning through play is one of the best ways to achieve this.

Making Assessment Meaningful, Marking Manageable and Feedback Motivating

The words ‘assessment’, ‘feedback’, ‘target setting’ and ‘monitoring progress’ are some of the most common found in education, but do we put ourselves in our learners’ shoes? Do we ask them what sort of feedback they would like, when they want it and how? Are our students involved in target-setting and the assessment process? Evidence suggests that feedback is one of the most important skills we can use to support learning, but only if we get it right. This session will pull apart and explore what we really mean by feedback, target-setting and assessment, so it works for the individual learners. 

Managing Low-Level Disruption Throughout the School

Low-level disruption and underhanded poor behaviour has been an increasing concern for many schools over the past few years. Conflicting ideas, evidence and research have not helped in finding an effective approach. This course aims to clarify those discussions and provide practical approaches that can be critiqued and adapted to suit your specific context and students.

Mastery Across the Curriculum

This dynamic course inspires teachers to provide primary children with meaningful opportunities to move their learning to greater depth, supporting reasoning and strengthening of thinking skills.

Mastery in Leadership

Mastery in Leadership is a one-day CPD course for school leaders that focuses on the qualities of successful leadership. This cutting edge course draws on the latest thinking to inspire school leaders towards developing outstanding schools through reflective and visionary leadership.

Mastery in Maths in the Early Years: Using Mastery Principles to Develop Mathematical Understanding

Development of conceptual understanding and procedural fluency needs to begin in the early years if children are to master mathematical concepts and gain deep understanding. This course will ensure you have all the tools to develop a curriculum of high expectations and high achievement.

Mastery is Not Just for Maths

The term ‘mastery’ has become synonymous with maths over the last few years as we have developed an understanding of how other countries successfully teach their maths curriculums. We have learnt a great many lessons about approaches to teaching and learning in maths.

Maths in the Outdoors

Research has linked outdoor learning to increased motivation and creativity; it also gives children an opportunity for practical application and cognitive challenge. In a maths context this may be familiar in younger years, but perhaps less so as the children get older. How can we make the most of the outdoor environment throughout KS1-2?

Maths Leader Curriculum Support

With a shift in focus away from the core subjects by Ofsted’s new Inspection Framework, what does this mean for maths? This course will answer that and so many more questions. Everything a maths coordinator needs to know.

Maths SATs 2022: 'Head Start' Workshop

Are you anxious about the return of KS2 SATs? This informative and practical half-day course revisits previous Maths SATs papers and provides you with a range of effective strategies to prepare your pupils for summer 2022.

Meaningful Maths: Developing Lesson Design

Part of the journey towards teaching for mastery in maths is developing lesson design. Effective lesson design is vital in ensuring that lesson time is used to the best effect to facilitate pupils make progress, develop skills and master mathematical concepts. This practical course will support you in planning for outstanding progress.

Mental Maths for Primary Schools

Mental maths is a vital part of a pupil’s skill set and this highly practical session will provide the essential techniques, as well as lots of practical and fun activities to support children with keeping their maths brains sharp!

Misconceptions in Maths: Avoidance or Confrontation?

It is natural that children will come to maths with certain misconceptions. Recognising these can be challenging and addressing them can be even more so. This course takes the theory behind maths misconceptions and turns it into practical ideas to support your classroom practice.

More than a Transition Day: Using Long-Term Character Trait Development to Prepare Your Children for High School

How long do you spend preparing leavers for Year 7? This training session takes a creative approach to the subject, using the idea of character traits - from the newly statutory relationships education part of PSHE - to think longer term in preparing pupils.

Morphemic Knowledge to Close the Gap

Show your children how great morphology - the ability to play with the construction of words - could be the very thing they need to inspire greater creativity in writing and comprehension.

Much More Than Lessons: Developing Cultural Capital

The new Ofsted inspection framework has a renewed focus on ‘cultural capital’. Developing a child’s knowledge and understanding of the world around them is a key part of the early years curriculum. This course will provide you with a wealth of ideas for supporting your children with building up their ‘cultural capital’.

Music Leader Curriculum Support

What does the new Ofsted Inspection Framework mean for your school? This course tells you everything you need to know about the Framework, from the perspective of music leadership.

My New EAL Student: A Ten-Point Plan

Our students may arrive from a range of countries and cultures, with different learning styles, but they still deserve the very best support. This course suggests ten practical things you can do to help support EAL / ESOL learners in your school.

New to Deputy Headship

This one-day course explores the key characteristics of a successful deputy head from the perspective of somebody who is new to the role. 

Numbers are All Around: Everyday Ways to Support Children in Developing Their Knowledge of Numbers and Counting

Providing children with a rich experience of mathematics in the real world will support them when they start to be able to deal with more abstract concepts. This course has dozens of great ideas to help practitioners ‘spot’ mathematical opportunities for their children.

Oracy in the Early Years and Beyond

Children seem to be starting school with decreasing levels of oracy; and our focus on the written form for evidence can sometimes divert our attention from speaking and listening. This course shares several of our favourite approaches for oracy development in the Early Years, but the strategies need little adaptation to apply in the key stages too.

Outstanding Foundation Stage Practice

Evaluate and improve your current Early Years provision.  

This course will give you a greater understanding of current expectations within the statutory EYFS framework, alongside successful strategies to enhance outdoor learning environments, improve parental engagement and, ultimately, ensure successful outcomes for all of your children. 

Outstanding SMSC Across the Primary Curriculum

Outstanding SMSC Across the Primary Curriculum is a practical and thoughtful look at the curriculum requirements for SMSC and PSHE and ways to successfully achieve them.

Outstanding Teaching of Grammar

Improve your subject knowledge in grammar and discover high impact games, strategies and approaches that will help you enhance your children’s grammatical knowledge.

Parents as Partners: Engaging Parents in Learning

Parents play a pivotal role in their child’s development and it is vital that we engage with them and include them as much as possible with the learning that is taking place. This is a process that this course will support you with, providing you with dozens of great ideas and tips to engage, talk with and support parents.

PE Leader Curriculum Support

In order to create, develop, monitor and evaluate an outstanding P.E. curriculum, you will need a full understanding of the requirements of the new Ofsted Inspection Framework, as well as some practical ideas for how to judge your Intent, Implementation and Impact. This course will provide all that and more.

Phonics Catch-Up for KS2: Supporting Pupils out of Covid

Positive Approaches to Understanding and Supporting Learners with ADHD

Many children go through phases when they are restless or inattentive; this doesn't necessarily mean they have ADHD. However, when short attention spans, constant fidgeting and acting impulsively become barriers to their education and their lives, this course will help find ways in which we can make effective and reasonable adjustments to support their education.

Positive Approaches to Understanding and Supporting Learners with ASD

Autistic spectrum disorder affects both communication and behaviour. While diagnosis can happen at any stage in life, it is often referred to as a developmental disorder and can be the cause of some emotional immaturities for some learners. This course will explore this wide range of variations and identify ways of working with individuals to support their development as well-rounded learners.

Practical and Positive Ways to Support Learners with Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia is not about intelligence, nor is it about having access to proper teaching. However, this condition does cause problems for learners, not just in school but in everyday life, where they need to use maths concepts. Children with dyscalculia will find mathematics difficult, puzzling and frustrating, and this course will provide plenty of practical ideas help support them.

Practical and Positive Ways to Support Learners with Dyslexia

For one in twenty learners, dyslexia is likely to significantly impact on their progress in reading, writing, spelling and maybe even maths. However, there are many positive ways we can support learners and build on their strengths and this practical course will give you plenty of ideas and ways of working.

Problem Solving is Not a Problem!

When we refer to problem solving in maths it is fair to say that most of us will immediately associate that with a series of worded problems. Whilst worded problems are a valid form of problem solving, they are just one way of approaching this aspect of maths teaching and learning and as educators, we should be exposing our pupils to a much wider variety of contexts in order to develop well-rounded pupils who can tackle maths challenges in a variety of contexts.

PSHE Leader Curriculum Support

The new Ofsted Inspection Framework has an increased emphasis on personal development, behaviour, character traits, and attitudes to learning. All of this puts the subject at the heart of school development. This course covers everything a PSHE coordinator should know.

PSHE: Meeting the New Requirements

Quality First Teaching

‘Quality First Teaching’ is a wide-ranging phrase that can sometimes feel a bit daunting for newer teachers. Even experienced practitioners can get a bit frustrated that so much is apparently expected in this catch-all term. This training will give you some clarity - and dozens of practical ideas!

Questioning Skills

The ‘Back-to-Basics’ are courses that focus on the skills that underpin good quality classroom teaching. This course provides an in-depth and comprehensive view of the importance of questioning in the classroom.

Raising Attainment Across the Curriculum

Reading, writing and maths have always had the majority of curriculum time, but how well can your pupils demonstrate progress, reasoning and deeper thinking across all subjects? This INSET explores how great learning across foundation subjects can have a positive impact on the impact core learning and development of each of your pupils.

Raising Attainment in Computing

We live in a computer-based world. It is absolutely vital that our children understand how computers work, how to use them, and how to stay safe around them. This full-day training course will look at all aspects of the computer curriculum, as well as how to use technology to support and inspire learning across the curriculum.

Raising Attainment in Literacy for Learners with SEND

Literacy and communication skills will be essential for our learners’ development and wellbeing. We shall be looking at many evidence-led, creative and multi-sensory approaches to teaching in these areas. We want all learners to have access to a full and meaningful curriculum as far as possible and this course will explore how this can be done in our unique circumstances.

Raising Attainment in Maths

This powerful one-day maths CPD course explores how to ensure pupils can master skills, tackle progressively challenging problems and reason effectively. It includes a range of proven strategies and fun activities to improve outcomes in maths. 

Raising Attainment in Primary Art

All children need the opportunity to be creative and express themselves. It allows children to think, investigate, explore all whilst developing skills and the confidence to be themselves. But how do we ensure that the skills and knowledge children need are taught in enough depth and that our curriculum is progressive? 

Raising Attainment in Primary DT

At its best, Design Technology helps children become critical thinkers and metacognitive learners, and develop practical skills in a range of settings. But the creative process in DT can sometimes be a bit aimless and unsophisticated. How do we ensure that DT skills and knowledge are being taught in enough depth, and in a progressive way? 

Raising Attainment in Primary Geography

Get an overview of the knowledge and skills that children need to become successful Geographers. This powerful one-day CPD course examines this key Foundation subject, demonstrating how to support all children to develop skills, knowledge, curiosity and a depth of understanding.

Raising Attainment in Primary History

This fast-paced and practical one-day CPD course shares a vision of history that will engage and inspire primary children, but also set them up with the analytical and critical skills that are vital for modern life.

Raising Attainment in Primary Music

Research has linked music education to improvements in working memory, language acquisition, spelling, concentration, effort, behaviour and wellbeing. But it is also an important subject in its own right, and it develops children’s “cultural capital”. 

Raising Attainment in Primary R.E.

Discover simple but effective strategies to support children’s R.E. work. This engaging, practical CPD course will help you to link your R.E. provision to current developments in curriculum design and develop your pupils' love of the subject.

Raising Attainment in PSHE

PSHE became part-statutory in September 2021. How can you meet these new requirements and legal obligations without diverting energy and focus from the other things that matter? 

Raising Attainment in Reading

Discover simple, effective ways to enhance children’s reading confidence and improve comprehension and word reading skills by attending this engaging and practical course. 

Raising Attainment in Science

Learn creative, practical and achievable methods to raise standards in science and inspire primary scientists. This course will provide the confidence to teach outstanding primary science in a vibrant, interactive way that promotes enquiry and learning at greater depth.

Raising Attainment in Spelling

Discover a range of strategies, activities and games to build children’s confidence in spelling and help them be more adventurous with their vocabulary.

Raising Attainment in Writing

Raise standards in writing, help children generate creative ideas and broaden their vocabulary - with fun, practical and achievable methods that can be implemented straight away.

Raising the Achievement and Ambition of Boys in Secondary and FE

How can we create a culture where all boys have high aspirations and their potential is maximised? The debate about girls’ and boys’ achievement and the ‘gap’ has been with us for many years. But is it a gap between boys and girls or just between individuals? In this course we'll have a chance to explore and critique the evidence and develop teaching and learning approaches that work in our different contexts.

RE Leader Curriculum Support

Arguably, RE leaders have been put in an uneasy position by the new Ofsted Inspection Framework: in Faith Schools the subject is part of the Core, but it lacks the status of English and maths; in non-Faith Schools, RE coordinators must ‘fight for their place at the table’. This course covers everything an RE coordinator should know.

Reading Leader Curriculum Support

Although the new Ofsted Inspection Framework has reframed our thinking around Foundation Subjects. There is certainly a stronger emphasis on non-core subjects, but it’s important that high standards are maintained in the Core as well. This course guides reading leaders through the new Framework.

Reading SATs 2022: 'Head Start' Workshop

To alleviate any anxiety about the return of KS2 SATs, this practical, focused half-day course revisits previous Reading SATs papers, and provides you with a range of effective strategies to prepare your pupils for summer 2022.

Reasoning in Maths

When we talk about mathematical ‘reasoning’ we sometimes struggle to distinguish it from word-problems. There is more to problem-solving than reasoning, and more to reasoning than problem-solving. If we understand what reasoning actually involves, we open up a rich range of experiences in maths - and across the curriculum - where we can develop and stretch our children.

Representations in Maths

Children often struggle to understand mathematical ideas if they move towards the “abstract” too quickly, and we rightly use different representations to make things easier for them to understand. But if we’re not careful these representations limit children to little more than a procedural fluency; to drive real mastery we need to make sure we vary the representations - and encourage children to do the same with their own.

Safeguarding: Your Right, Everyone’s Responsibility

Safeguarding is a crucial part of our role in education, but what are our duties in an ever-changing world? This course contains everything you need to know in this complex, emotional and often controversial area.

School Data Workshop: Getting the Most from Analyse School Performance

Bring your school’s data along to this practical and insightful course, to discuss practical ways to inform your School Development Plan based on your data. Explore ways to ensure accurate and robust data collection in a practical and achievable way.

School Development Planning

Bring your School Development Plan along to this practical, informative workshop. We'll explore how to ensure that your SDP helps to drive school improvement and financial management on a day-to-day basis. You will leave this course with a strong understand of what makes an effective plan.

Science Leader Curriculum Support

The new Ofsted Inspection Framework marks a significant shift in focus, shining a much brighter light on non-Core subjects. This creates a real risk for science leaders: it lacks the status of the other core subjects, and it may now be left behind as schools work to improve their foundation subjects. This course covers everything a science coordinator needs to know.

Secondary Year Leaders: Meeting the New Challenges

Year leaders are central in the drive towards outstanding teaching, learning and progress in schools. Throughout the year there will be a range of challenges, some not yet known, that year leaders will be facing both in terms of learners’ wellbeing and their cognitive development. This course will explore the most recent developments, share best practice and advice, and help you develop the essential skills of a year leader to support all learners and the challenges they may face.

SEND in the Mainstream

From Every Child Matters, to SEND-in-the-mainstream, to the current inspection framework; children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities have always been a high priority for schools. During this one-hour session, we will share the most successful SEND strategies we have implemented in mainstream schools.

SEND in the Mainstream and the New OFSTED Inspection Framework

What does the new Ofsted Inspection Framework mean for SEND in your school and for you as a SENCO? This informative one-day leadership CPD course will help you to explore the implications of the new Ofsted Inspection Framework for your school.

Shoulders of Giants: Cultural Capital in Maths

No teacher - and few pupils - would argue against the importance of maths. Its procedures are crucial life skills, and its thinking processes can develop understanding across the curriculum. But how often do we explore the lives and work of great mathematicians, particularly in the context of Ofsted’s focus on cultural capital?

Spiritual is more than R.E.: Understanding the First ‘S’ of SMSC

Spirituality is as much an awareness of ourselves as it is an awareness of anything beyond ourselves. So how do we, in a secular age, encourage pupils to engage with and understand their ‘spirit’ - whether or not they have a faith-based ‘spiritual’ side? What inspires you? Where do you feel most at peace?

Sticky Knowledge: Driving up Retention for the New Ofsted Framework

How can we ensure our pupils are retaining - and applying - what they have ‘learned’ in any given subject, topic, or year? 

Storytelling in Maths

Storytelling in Maths recognises that many pupils struggle to effectively use vocabulary and language structures to explain and reason. This exciting, practical course will help you embed effective strategies for mathematical language acquisition to improve outcomes in maths as part of your daily teaching.

Stretch and Challenge Across the Secondary School: Developing an Ambitious Curriculum

How can we avoid stretch and challenge being ‘bolt-ons’? How can they be integrated into the secondary school’s/college’s curriculum to provide ambitious learning for all students? How are learners being challenged and how have we established the appropriate pace of the lesson? This course will provide plenty of practical ideas that can be adapted for all subjects, and look at how we can create a culture of challenge and an ambitious curriculum for all learners. 

Stretch and Challenge in English KS3 and KS4

This practical course will look at how we stretch and challenge all learners to be the best they can and get the grades and achievement they deserve in English language and literature. We will explore ways of applying learning to unfamiliar texts and styles of writing, to add more complexity and sophistication to our thinking, to develop the technical skills to analyse and critique work and encourage independent thinking.