Leading Teachers

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Leading Teachers

• A joint training package from the National
  Academy for Gifted Talented Youth and the
  National Strategies

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The Vision

• That every school has a professional equipped
  and ready to lead on all issues concerning Gifted
  and Talented Learners

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An overview

• The training is not intended to train GT
  teachers but rather to train Leading GT
  teachers.
• All secondary schools and groups of about 5
  primary schools will be advised to appoint and
  train a lead teacher for the Gifted and Talented.
• The advice will be that this Lead Teacher must
  have a direct communication route to the
  Leadership Team in their school or schools.

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The role of the Leading Teacher

• The leading teacher will
• act as an advocate for the needs of gifted and
  talented pupils
• ensure that the gifted and talented receive
  appropriate recognition, support and challenge
  throughout the school/group of schools
• exemplify effective practice for gifted and
  talented pupils in their own professional
  practice, and provide coaching/peer mentor
  support for colleagues
• initiate strategies which support the
  professional development of colleagues to improve
  the schools /group of schools capacity to
  personalise learning for GT pupils

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Therefore the Leading Teacher will work with

• School leadership teams
• Subject leaders and coordinators
• Individual teachers
• Teaching assistants
• Gifted and Talented students
• Governors

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Time frame

• LAs should be alerting their schools to appoint a
  Leading Teacher for Gifted and Talented Pupils as
  soon as possible.
• Training will be rolled out starting Summer 2007
• LAs offer training from September 2007

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Training the Leading Teacher

• There are three intertwining aspects to the role
• the strategic vision to improve the day to day
  education of gifted and talented pupils and the
  skills to make the vision a reality
• a secure background knowledge of the issues
  pertaining to gifted and talented pupils
• the pedagogic know-how
• For such a wide ranging role the training cannot
  be a one-off event

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Training the lead teacher

• The training offered will comprise
• Face to face training delivered locally
• and
• e-modules available on the National Strategies
  Web-site

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The two parts of the training

• will work together to provide the background
  knowledge and the leadership and pedagogic skills
  that are required by a Leading Teacher for Gifted
  and Talented students.

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Face to face training

• 9 modules of which 4 are core and 5 optional.
• Basic training 2 half-day sessions using core
  modules
• Optional training further sessions allowing
  flexibility to meet particular needs and contexts

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The face to face training modulesDraft Titles
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Face to face training

• The National Strategies will offer sessions to
  train the trainers.
• The trainers will be suitable people from the LA
  not necessarily National Strategy Consultants.
• LAs will offer training to their lead teachers as
  they feel best suits their context.
• LAs will be encouraged to use existing expertise
  and to use the Regional Partnerships to
  facilitate Leading Teacher training.
• All funding will come from existing personalising
  learning budgets.

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The e-modules

• Will be available to all comers on the Standards
  Website
• Will consist of core and additional modules
• Leading Teachers will be required to access the
  core modules as part of their training
• The e-modules are intended to be a flexible
  resource that provides background knowledge and
  skills for leading teachers at a time when they
  can access it.

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The 3 core e-modules

• Teaching and Learning planning for challenge,
  extending the repertoire, AfL GT, progression,
  Involving pupils in the learning process, etc.
• Identification what do we mean by ability,
  talent etc., identification through provision,
  creating and maintaining a register, etc.
• Taking the Lead on GT Issues what it means to
  lead, working with others, enabling change, using
  data, etc.

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The 18 additional e-modules
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The e-modules

• Will be highly interactive and will recognise the
  huge breadth and depth of experience of the
  audience
• Although the core modules will be longer the
  modules will be as concise as possible whilst
  covering the material adequately

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All Leading Teacher training

• will have clear expectations that there will be
  an impact on pupil achievement.
• will be designed to equip a leading teacher to
  support consistently good provision for the
  gifted and talented across schools and phases.