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Prague COBIS Conference 2014for Teachers, Leaders and Support Staff

‘Supporting Excellent Teaching – Enabling Great Learning’20th and 21st February 2014, The Prague British School, Czech Republic

This COBIS Conference is proudly sponsored by:

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Prague COBIS Conference for Teachers, Leaders and Support Staff

Theme: Supporting Excellent Teaching – Enabling Great LearningWhen: 20th and 21st February 2014Address: The Prague British School, Kamyk Site,

K Lesu 2, Kamyk, Praha 4, Czech Republic

The conference fee includes all course materials, refreshments at breaks, lunch for both days, a conference dinner and a wine reception on the final day.

Timetable for the conference days:

Thursday 20th February08:00 – 08:45 Registration and coffee08:45 – 09:45 Welcome and Keynote09:45 – 11:00 Early Morning Session 11:00 – 11:30 Break11:30 – 12:45 Mid-Morning Session 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch13:45 – 15:00 Early Afternoon Session 15:00 – 15:30 Break15:30 – 16:45 Mid-Afternoon Session

19:30Conference dinner at The Holiday Inn, Prague Congress Centre, Na Pankráci 15/1684, Praha 4. www.holidayinn.cz Dresscode: smart casual

The wine for the conference dinner is sponsored by Firefly

Friday 21st February08:00 – 08:45 Arrival and Coffee 08:45 – 10:00 Early Morning Session10:00 – 10:30 Break10:30 – 11:45 Mid-Morning Session11:45 – 12:45 Lunch12:45 – 14:00 Early Afternoon Session14:00 – 14:30 Break14:30 – 15:45 Mid-Afternoon Session15:45 Wine reception in the Exhibitors’ area.

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Charlie Warshawski Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Keynote Address: Supporting excellent teaching – enabling great learning

Thursday 08:45 – 09:45 Room: The Small Gym

Charlie Warshawski has 25 years of leadership and training experience, with a background that spans all sectors and includes UK and overseas activities. In his roles he has specialised in supporting organisational and individual change. Charlie helps clients and colleague develop self-awareness, overcome their challenges, and develop their full potential. Clients, which include schools, local authorities and FE colleges, report that the impact of Charlie’s interventions helps to create shifts in their activities.

Mike Hughes

Improving Teaching in Primary and Secondary

Room for all sessions: C207

Mike Hughes is a well-known and highly acclaimed author of best-selling books such as Tweak to Transform, Closing the Learning Gap and his latest publication, And the Main Thing is…Learning.

After spending 20 years as a teacher, most recently as a secondary Head, Mike now works full time supporting schools and organisations in the drive to improve learning in the classroom.

His work is rooted in the realities of classroom life and he has a deserved reputation for being practical, realistic and occasionally humorous.

Mike Hughes: Leadership for Learning

Thursday 09:45 – 11:00 AND CONTINUES 11:30 – 12:45

This session is suitable for senior and middle leaders at all key stages.

Research suggests that leaders make a difference and this session will focus upon the role of leaders at all levels in improving the quality of teaching and learning across a school.

Key areas to be covered• developing professional capacity• Information Driven Dialogue• a framework for improvement• effective professional development• achieving the carrot / stick balance


Mike Hughes: Coaching


Thi session is suitable for anyone with a leadership role or teachers wishing to develop coaching skills. It links with the session on ‘Leadership for Learning’ but can also be a stand-alone workshop. It is suitable for anyone with any leadership role or for any teacher wishing to develop coaching skills.

Research consistently and conclusively demonstrates that coaching is a particular powerful form of professional development and that encouraging teachers to talk about teaching and learning is a key factor in improving classroom practice. This session will focus upon the potential of coaching as a professional development tool and include specific coaching skills.

Key areas to be covered• why coaching• the coaching - mentoring - training spectrum• from feedback to dialogue • structuring a coaching session• coaching for improvement

Mike Hughes: Teaching for engagement

Friday 08:45 – 10:00 AND CONTINUES 10:30 – 11:45

This session is suitable for teachers from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 5.

This practical session will focus upon effective classroom practice and will leave delegates with practical ideas to try in their classroom.

Key areas to be covered• what makes the difference• the engagement triangle• engaging learners through the magenta principles• principles not strategies• switching the emphasis from teaching to learning, instruction to facilitation, knowing to understanding

Mike Hughes: Questioning


This session is suitable for teachers from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 5.

Research consistently and conclusively shows that the quality of teacher questioning is a major influence on learning.

This session will include some video footage of actual lessons for delegates to analyse.

Key areas to be covered• planning for better dialogue• mapping dialogue• what makes the difference• metacognitive questioning• children asking the questions

This session is linked with ‘Teaching for Engagement’. They are stand-alone sessions but it is suggested that delegates might like to attend both workshops in order to maximise the impact.


Sally Featherstone

Early Years

Room: C109

Sally Featherstone qualified as a teacher at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, with specialisms in primary teaching, and drama.

She began her teaching career in schools in the London, and became the headteacher of a large infant school and nursery in Leicester. Sally has written and edited many books for Featherstone Education, and continues to be involved as a consultant and author for Bloomsbury. Sally has written extensively on many topics, particularly those focused on the early years.

For nineteen years Sally has trained throughout the UK and overseas. In 2012 she decided to reduce her training activities so she could concentrate on writing.

Sally is passionate about supporting those who do the exceptionally difficult and rewarding job of working with young children.

Sally Featherstone: Setting the scene (Suitable for the Early Years)


Organising and managing the environment for learning is a key part of the role of teacher/practitioner in the early years. This session will help you to reflect on your own settings and classrooms, using the key Characteristics of Effective Learning in the early years. Sally will use photos and DVD to help you to understand what high quality environments look like, and the effect they have on young children’s experiences. The session will include discussion of the indoor and outside environment, and will allow delegates to discuss the features of their own settings and classrooms with others.

Sally Featherstone: Assessment - catching them at it. (Suitable for the Early Years)- with a focus also on how to best utilise the TAs.


The revised EYFS continues to emphasise assessment by observation and that observations should take place in child-initiated situations. Sally will describe what this looks like, and how you can work as a team to ensure that children’s learning is noticed and celebrated through manageable systems for observation and record keeping. She will also offer guidance on using the revised guidance on Development Matters, and the new goals for early learning.

Sally Featherstone: Early Years Update (Suitable for the Early Years)


The Revised EYFS is similar in many ways to the original document. However, there are significant differences in emphasis and particularly in defining the characteristics of effective learning. In this session, Sally will take you through the changes in the curriculum and in assessment, so you can clarify and update your information and discuss any problems that might arise.

Sally Featherstone: Supporting child initiated learning (Suitable for the Early Years)


What does ‘child initiated learning’ mean, why is it so important, and how can it best be provided in the early years? In this session, Sally will help you to understand the importance of genuine child-initiation, and how you can provide the best environment for it to thrive. She will use DVD and photographs to illustrate the key features of child-initiated learning in action, and to help you to understand how adults can do to support this.


Jonathan Taylor

E Safety

Room: B106

Jonathan worked within the Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Investigation Command for 15 years. For his last 8 years Jonathan specialized in online internet investigations gaining a wealth of knowledge in online offender behaviour. He graduated in 2009 with an MSc in Criminology / Criminal Psychology, and continues to work with Lancaster University as a Research Fellow within the Computing & Communication Faculty. Jonathan currently acts as an Independent Child Protection Consultant & Trainer, specializing in Internet Safety and offender online methodology, and has become the E-Safety consultant to COBIS & the Child Safeguarding Charity Kidscape. Jonathan speaks to Schools (pupils, parents and staff), Foster Carers & other Child Safeguarding Professionals, on e-safety awareness, and advises schools on implementing E-safety training & policies in line with current Ofsted / ISI guidelines.. Jonathan has appeared on ITV’s This Morning, Sky News, BBC Breakfast TV, BBC 24, and Radio 5 Live as an Internet Safety Expert, and continues to take part in a 12 hr Live Radio show for Internet Safety Day.

Jonathan Taylor: Social Media & the Dangers

Thursday 09:45 – 11:00 & Friday 08:45 – 10:00

‘Child Exploitation’ to ‘Cyber-bullying’ to ‘Online Reputation’. This session is for all teachers and support staff and will look at how we can stay safe online. It will particularly look at:

• Social networking• Sexting-Sextortion• Trolling• Digital Footprints

Jonathan Taylor: E-Safety for Students

Thursday 11:30 – 12:45 & Friday 10:30 – 11:45

Online Respect: ‘Zip It’, ‘Block It’, ‘Flag It’.

Risks and consequences of sharing personal and inappropriate information on the Internet and Social Media- Sexting to Reputation. How a Positive Digital Footprint is created & protected & how it can affect their future education and employment.

Jonathan Taylor: E-Safety for Teachers / Staff

Thursday 13:15 – 14:30 & Friday 12:45 – 14:00

This session focuses on: • Protecting your Online Reputation & Professional Liability• E-Safety Inspections - What the Inspectorate is looking for in Inspecting E-Safety• Social Media & The Dangers • Child Exploitation to Cyberbullying to Online Reputation,

Jonathan Taylor: E-Safety Inspections

Thursday 15:00 – 16:45 & Friday 14:30 – 15:45

What Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) are looking for in Inspecting E-Safety? The session will also look at:

• CPD Training for Staff• Assemblies for all School Years• Parental Information Evenings• E-Safety Policies & Robust AUP‘s• E-Safety Officer


Jane Walton Sponsored by Karen Ardley Associates

Teacher Assistant Training

Room: B107

Jane Walton is a successful, qualified and experienced Adult Educator whose previous roles include working as a Childcare lecturer and Curriculum Manager delivering qualifications for Teaching Assistants, working as a key member of a specialist School Support Staff Development Team and most recently as a member of Rochdale’s Education and Training Trust team. These roles involved delivering a bespoke service to local schools, giving reliable, relevant and accurate information, advice and guidance directly to Support Staff members and discrete role specific networks and also to Heads and Line Managers of large school workforces and their ever widening array of roles.

Working so closely with schools and associated services has given Jane a clear understanding of the priorities of schools as the employer and also of the professional development needs and aspirations of School Support Staff as employees. She is committed to encouraging, developing and enabling professionalism across the whole school work force and also passionately committed to the development of a culture of life-long learning in all adults supporting the education of our children.

Jane has enjoyed working as an associate with KAA (Karen Ardley Associates) immensely over the last three years both in the UK and abroad and is looking forward to continuing that relationship.

Jane Walton: Aspiring to meet Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) standards.

Thursday 09:45 – 11:00 AND CONTINUES 11:30 – 12:45 andFriday 12:45 – 14:00 AND CONTINUES 14:30 – 15:45

This two and a half hour practical session looking at Higher Level Teaching Assistant self-assessment which will provide an opportunity for Teaching Assistants to discuss, explore and begin to self-assess

against the HLTA standards. Initially, the workshop will focus on your own skills, knowledge and experience to help you to explore the rigorous requirements of the standards. Subsequently the workshop will support you to identify training and development needs that present themselves in relation to the standards and enable you to consider the practicalities of what needs to be undertaken to bridge any identified gaps in order to fully meet each standard. This workshop will also provide a personalised opportunity for Teaching Assistants to rehearse a PDR using specific standards to help them explore what they and others are doing that can be of mutual benefit and encouragement.

Jane Walton: Supporting TAs to promote and encourage behaviours for learning.

Thursday 13:45 – 15:00 AND CONTINUES 15:30 – 16:45andFriday 08:45 – 10:00 AND CONTINUES 10:30 – 11:45

This two and half hour practical session will be looking at the key topic of developing skills and strategies to promote successful behaviour and communication. Behaviour management is linked to how we communicate what we want and expect from pupils. In the modern classroom where the presence of additional adults is commonplace and classroom management is linked to how successfully the adult partnerships and relationship dynamics between teacher and TA are established and developed so that there is a cohesion in the methods used to manage the classroom successfully and keep pupils on task and address off-task behaviours. There will be some video input for participants to draw on and activities will be practical requiring full delegate participation to support you to develop skills that enable successful outcomes. We will be looking at using strategies and scripts that encourage pupils to choose more positive behaviours thereby avoiding flashpoints, conflicts embarrassing situations where staff make empty threats that they cannot really follow up on.


Catherine Bleasdale

Primary English

Room: B110

Catharine Bleasdale is the Professional Development Liaison Officer, South West Wales Centre of Teacher Education, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

During a total of almost 10 years in the primary sector, Catherine taught in a variety of schools across Pembrokeshire and Powys. She was appointed as a Lecturer within the English department of Trinity College, Carmarthen in 1998 as a member of the Primary Professional English team, and since then has been involved in teaching and co-ordinating modules and programmes across disciplines and degrees, including BA QTS, PPGCE, MA,GTP and the graduate diploma for practising teachers.

Catherine is currently a member of UCET Cymru (chair of primary working group), a member of IPDA Cymru (interim chair) and a member of NATE. She is also an ITT peer inspector for the Welsh inspectorate, Estyn and is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

Developing Literacy Skills (including assessment for learning)


This workshop will be of particular interest to primary teachers who teach literacy. The session will focus upon high quality provision for the development of oracy, reading and writing skills, including the role that assessment plays in ensuring appropriate stages of development are catered for. Participants will consider the place of the APP and the Assessment for Learning approach within literacy skills development.

Cross-curricular Teaching and Learning of Literacy


This workshop will interest teachers who are keen to incorporate literacy into cross-curricular approaches to teaching and learning within the primary sector. Participants will identify possible approaches to the inclusion of literacy within a range of curricular areas and consider a variety of cross-curricular approaches to teaching and learning.


As well as discussions about useful and effective classroom approaches, you will have the opportunity to try out the activities and strategies for yourself, in a friendly environment, so that you can appreciate how they will work in practice in your classroom.

We will look at using learning objectives and success criteria effectively, the power of asking the right questions, the role of self and peer-assessment, and how to maximise the impact of feedback.

Don’t miss it!

Pamela John Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Secondary English

Room: C105

Pamela John has over 17 years‘ teaching experience, including the role of Head of English in a comprehensive school. Pamela is an enthusiastic practitioner and national Educational Trainer who is keen to share ideas and strategies in order to maximise students‘ learning experiences. Pamela is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

She has produced many resources for students and teachers, including some for an educational website. Pamela, who holds a Master‘s degree in Education, still teaches Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. As well as being an Examiner for GCSE English, she is a Consultative Moderator for GCSE Speaking and Listening in England and Wales.

Pamela also works with disadvantaged children in a deprived area of Wales as part of a community project, and at the other end of the educational spectrum, with post-graduate students from Gloucester University.

Pamela John: Assessment for Learning in English: Advancing Students‘ Progress


Understanding where students are in their learning journey and how to help them to move forward in their English lessons is a vital part of excellent teaching.

During this seminar, delegates will be shown numerous practical ways in which to embed Assessment for Learning strategies into your everyday teaching so that they become an integral part of your pedagogy and not just another bolt-on initiative.


Alan Cross Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Primary Science

Room: B201

Alan Cross leads the PGCE Primary Science and Design and Technology courses at the University of Manchester as well as highly successful CPD events in primary science and design and technology and is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

He conducts research into how these subjects are taught and managed in primary schools and has a strong record of publishing in journals and books for teachers including ‘Essential Primary Science’ published by Open University Press in 2009. Alan regularly teaches in school and has led curriculum projects and development in creative approaches to the primary curriculum.

Alan Cross: Assessment for Excellent Primary Science


Science can be challenging and great fun for primary pupils.

This seminar will provide a clear rationale and a very practical approach to assessment of science in primary classrooms. It will demonstrate creative approaches to the assessment of primary science.

As the very best measure of a good science lesson is the extent to which learners have learned the science, this seminar will examine a number of approaches which can be taken to ensure that if difficulties are encountered by learners, appropriate challenges can be identified.

Assessment will be seen as a shared task involving the teacher and the learners.

Learners benefit from enthusiastic teachers. This seminar will encourage you to look again at teaching methods you use in science classes. It will be practical and will explore options for recording sound and images, children as researchers, playground science, dance/drama, children’s literature, stories, IT and approaches to science enquiry (working scientifically).


Many claims have been made about the power of technology to transform learning: the Interactive whiteboard and the tablet (iPad) being two of the latest.

From data logging to digital microscopes and with challenging activities such as modelling with spreadsheets, to making and solving a tarsia, lots of applications will be discussed and demonstrated. See Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier debate their theories of burning and read about the disgraceful behaviour of the Royal Society on the 7th February 1863.

In this session, there should be something new for everyone and lots of ideas to try with your students.

Alan Jervis Sponsored by insetcourses.comSecondary Science

Room: B209

Alan Jervis is Head of secondary science teacher education at the University of Manchester‘s Manchester Institute of Education and is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

Following some years of research, Alan taught Chemistry in a wide range of schools for twenty years. Following on from his period as a researcher, he developed what turned out to be a lifelong interest in computers and was working in schools and active in their introduction into schools.

Alan moved to the University of Manchester to work on developing the use of ICT in Maths and Science and then progressed to work in postgraduate teacher education. He retained a strong interest in the use of ICT in teaching and learning, particularly in science.

His fascination with chemistry has remained strong and chemistry education has continued to play a significant role in his life. For the past few years, he has also worked on the development of a modern chemistry curriculum for a former Russian republic.

Alan has had an enduring passion for his subject and he is never happier than when he is promoting interest and enthusiasm for it, whether with students, teachers in training or serving teachers in schools and colleges in the UK and International Schools.

Alan Jervis: Enhancing Learning in Secondary Science using ICT

Thursday 13:45 – 15:00 AND CONTINUES 15:30 – 16:45 and Friday 08:45 – 10:00 AND CONTINUES 10:30 – 11:45

Too often using ICT to support learning in Science means researching on the Web and using video clips. Whilst those won‘t be neglected in this session, the seminar aims to look wider at a range of technologies which can really capture students‘ imagination.


Liz Gibbs Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Primary Maths

Room: B204

Liz Gibbs comes initially from Rotherham in South Yorkshire and is proud of her Yorkshire roots. Liz is an experienced classroom teacher, subject leader, local, national and international adviser. She has nearly 20 years of full time teaching experience in the classroom and has taught children from the ages of 4 to 13 years.

In 2003, Liz was one of five lead consultants asked to trial whiteboards for the DfE. The whiteboard project lead to Liz training, not only in Suffolk but nationally. In 2005 she joined the National Whiteboard Network as a National Whiteboard Network director then ICT director, writing training course materials and teaching resources for the DfE.

Liz has a great deal of international experience working chiefly in Asia but latterly, Europe and the Middle East. Being passionate about teaching mathematics, Liz teaches part-time at a local middle school, so that she is in tune with the joys and difficulties that the role of class teacher brings and can be often found running Easter schools in her LA and lunchtime maths lessons at her middle school.

Liz writes for two online teacher resource websites; Promethean Planet and Early Learning Headquarters. She is also going to be a published mathematics author in April 2014 and is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

Liz Gibbs: Developing and enhancing formative assessment practice in the primary mathematics classroom


In this workshop delegates will experience a wide range of mathematical activities for children aged 5 - 13. All attendees will also be asked to consider the prior learning required for sample mathematical tasks, opportunities for assessment in the daily mathematics lesson and the children’s next steps.

Some time will also be spent examining a variety of assessment approaches, such as questioning techniques, success criteria, marking, pupil conversations, feedback codes and capturing evidence of learning with the aid of technology, e.g. talking tins, whiteboards, cameras, dictaphones and film, etc.


James Nicholson Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Secondary Maths

Room: B205

James Nicholson has extensive experience of teaching mathematics and statistics, including 13 years as a Head of Mathematics. He is currently working with a University in the North East of England to develop classroom resources for statistics as well as presenting seminars & workshop days for teachers and students. He has given presentations at more than 25 international conferences on mathematics and statistics education and is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

James is a member of the NCETM Associates panel and has acted as a consultant for QCA, Ofqual and NFER. James is also an experienced senior examiner for A-level Statistics and is also the author of two A-level Statistics textbooks, two GCSE Mathematics revision guides and he is a contributing author for a number of other mathematics textbooks. He is also the current editor of the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Mathematics.

James Nicholson: Supporting excellent teaching - making mathematics more real in the secondary classroom


This seminar will look at ways of integrating contexts fully into teaching mathematics - this is one of the aspects the curriculum and assessment bodies are looking at improving in the next round of changes.

The seminar will consider the example of quadratics (which spans most of secondary level maths) and look at it in some detail - with resources for teaching and also contextual examples for use with classes: since a straight line is the first model for describing many physical situations, the quadratic should be the second model in many cases.

Delegates will get the opportunity to work with this approach in some other areas like trigonometry, differential equations, and probability as to how similar principles can be applied across the curriculum to make the teaching and learning of mathematics much more real in the secondary classroom.

The use of a laptop (or tablet) during the seminar will be an advantage, as it will allow delegates to work with the electronic resources provided by the tutor. If your school or college uses Autograph, it would be good to have it installed on the computer/tablet you will be working with.


Rebecca Howitt Sponsored by insetcourses.com

ICT (Primary and Secondary)

Room: C102

Rebecca Howitt has more than 11 years of relevant professional experience. As an Independent ICT Education Consultant she specialises in training and consultancy to embed ICT across the curriculum.

Rebecca gained extensive experience as an Education Development Consultant (Steljes/Smart), ICT Consultant (northern LA), Teacher (SMT, ICT Leader) where she built excellent relationships with LA advisors, HE establishments, national education bodies and other educational influencers.

Rebecca’s skills lie in planning and delivering bespoke training and seminars to schools, at conferences and workshops and is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

Rebecca Howitt: Primary - Innovative ICT across the Primary phase


In short, this seminar will cover what’s here, what’s new and what’s coming in terms of innovative ICT use in the Primary classroom.

Delegates will find out about pedagogical and learner-centred approaches to major trends, devices, online resources, free tools to schools and E-Safety. They will learn how their International School can use resources to self-review their technology provision. This review will be across all areas of the school by setting out a structure of elements, strands and aspects to facilitate self-evaluation, benchmarking and action planning, en-route to accreditation.

Rebecca Howitt: Secondary - Innovative ICT across the Secondary phase


In short, this seminar will cover what’s here, what’s new and what’s coming in terms of innovative ICT use in the Secondary School.

Delegates will find out about pedagogical and learner-centred approaches to major trends, devices, online resources, free tools to schools and E-Safety. They will learn how their International School can use resources to self-review their technology provision. This review will be across all areas of the school by setting out a structure of elements, strands and aspects to facilitate self-evaluation, benchmarking and action planning, en-route to accreditation.

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Teachers and coordinators of primary music looking for new ideas for creating a motivational learning environment that will support all children in attaining outstanding levels of learning and progress in music will benefit from this practical seminar.

This Seminar Will Enable You to• Understand what it means for learning to be outstanding in primary music • Develop pupil-centred strategies to ensure you can engage and build positive relationships with

your learners so outstanding learning can take place.• Explore ideas, resources, techniques, and models of excellent practice to support outstanding

learning and progress in Music• Robustly monitor every child’s achievement and maximise progress in music lessons

Steve Burnage: Secondary Music - Outstanding Learning and Progress in Music: Secondary


This Seminar will show you how to deliver outstanding music lessons, making them highly successful and engaging for your students; honing your teaching skills in order to teach great lessons consistently and build positive relationships with your students to support outstanding learning and progress.

Teachers and subject leaders of secondary music looking for new ideas for creating a motivational learning environment that will support all students in attaining outstanding levels of learning and progress will benefit from this seminar.

This Seminar Will Enable You to:• Understand what it means for learning to be outstanding in music• Develop pupil-centred strategies to ensure you can engage and build positive relationships with

your learners so outstanding learning can take place.• Explore ideas, resources, techniques, to support outstanding learning and progress in Music• Robustly monitor your students’ achievement and set meaningful targets to maximise progress

in Music

Steve Burnage Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Primary and Secondary Music

Room: C107

Steve is an experienced INSET Leader who has spent more than 25 years supporting high-quality learning and teaching in schools. Originally a music teacher, he rose swiftly to become head of faculty and he has held senior management positions in inner city, urban and rural secondary schools including time as a Head Teacher of an inner city comprehensive school.

As well as experience working in comprehensive schools, Steve also has experience of selective education, working in a grammar school deemed ‘Outstanding’ by OfSTED. He has a breadth of experience in training and consultancy delivering training, coaching to Masters level and authoring training materials.

Steve is an experienced leader of teacher and leadership appraisal and performance management. Recent performance management experience includes producing materials, and leading performance management training, to primary & secondary schools and academies throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East. This was completed under the recent changes to UK legislation.

Steve is sought after as an expert practitioner, consultant and training who hosts training and consultancy in primary and secondary schools, colleges, academies and conference venues throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East for insetcourses.com.

Steve Burnage: Primary Music - Outstanding Learning and Progress in Music: Primary


This INSET will help you to teach and coordinate outstanding primary music lessons and activities - making them highly successful and engaging for your children; honing your teaching skills in order to teach great lessons consistently and support outstanding learning and progress.


In this brief introduction you will learn:• Why the approaches are so powerful• How to identify and build on strengths• Why working towards solutions is always better than away from problems• How we can use our brain’s ability as a virtual reality generator to accelerate change• A simple and effective target/review process

By the end of the session, you will have learned and practiced some of the key aspects of a solution focused toolkit and will be confident in drawing on them to make peer coaching an even more effective development tool.

Peter Hook: Secondary - Solution focused approaches to motivating and developing individuals and teams

Thursday 13:45 – 15:00 AND CONTINUES 15:30 – 16:45If you have responsibility for getting the best out of individuals and teams then this seminar will show you how solution focused approaches can help you to:

• Engage and motivate people even more effectively• Turn “Oh God another meeting!” into “Oh good another meeting!”• Get even more effective buy-in to goals and vision• Unlock the hidden potential the enables students to learn even more effectively

The approach is simple but not simplistic and, by balancing practical, next-day, skills with insights into why the approaches work, this seminar will give participants some highly effective tools to compliment the way they support individual and team development.

Peter Hook Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Coaching & Getting the best out of teams

Room: C204

Peter has 30 years’ experience as a teacher and leader in schools, and as Head of Centre with Oldham’s Behaviour Support Service. He has been an independent consultant/trainer for 10 years and has been described in the Times Educational Supplement as “…one of the foremost trainers in the UK”. Peter is sponsored by insetcorses.com.

He runs a successful training and consultancy organization with a National and International reputation for inspirational and empowering workshops and has worked with colleagues from over 900 schools, LEAs, Educational Services and PGCE courses in the past few years. Peter is a consultant to both the DfE and TDA on behaviour management, and has been responsible for the production of 2 training modules for Teaching Assistants launched by the DfES in September 2000/2001.

He is co-author - with Andy Vass - of Confident Classroom Leadership, Creating Winning Classrooms, Teaching with Influence and The Behaviour Management Pocketbook (winner of Education Resource Book of the Year 2005). Peter’s work is also integral to the development of both the DfE’s National Attendance and Behaviour Strategy and the NSPLBA. Peter is also, with Andy Vass, co-author of “The Coaching and Reflecting Pocket” book.

Peter Hook: Primary - Getting the best out of Peer Coaching


Done well, peer coaching can be the “engine” that drives improvement at all levels of a school. This session will look at how solution focused approaches to coaching can give us a simple, practical and powerful way of engaging, motivating and supporting both adults and children.


Melissa Jones Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Primary and Secondary Drama

Room: C203

Melissa Jones is a freelance consultant for teaching and learning. Gifted and Talented, Assessment for Learning, English and Active Learning are specialist areas. She is a QCA Associate, the G&T consultant for a London borough and contributes to the outreach programme for University College London and is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

Formerly an Area Coordinator for Expressive Arts and an AST, she is currently an A Level examiner for Drama and Theatre Studies, a Principal Moderator for the Creative and Media Diploma and an Artsmark Validator.

Her recent work includes writing the Student Book and Teacher’s Guide for Edexcel GCSE Drama and Revision Express A and A/S level Drama and Theatre Studies (Pearson). Melissa has worked extensively with NQTs and PGCE students at Homerton College, Cambridge and Reading University.

Melissa Jones: Drama across the curriculum in the Primary School


This seminar will explore a wide range of Drama activities and strategies, which can motivate and encourage children in their curriculum learning. Melissa will examine how drama allows children to experience situations otherwise outside their daily lives, linking with a variety of curriculum areas.

Strategies will include freeze frames, role-play, thoughts aloud, ritual, whole class drama and many more. There will be lesson ideas for using Drama in History, in teaching Shakespeare and when working on a cross curricular theme. Melissa will integrate assessment and evaluation into the discussion of each lesson plan. These Drama techniques are transferable and can be used at a Drama Club, in preparation for assemblies or when creating end of term school performances.

The seminar will involve practical drama activities where delegates will experience the strategies in practice.

Melissa Jones: Stimulating approaches to Drama teaching at KS3 & KS4


This seminar will focus on creating excellent drama lessons based on exciting stimulus material, employing a range of drama strategies and integrating assessment opportunities.

The first part of the seminar will explore lesson ideas for Years 7 – 9, which will examine ways that teachers can engage pupils in creative work whilst ensuring that drama skills are embedded in the activities. The lesson plans will involve a variety of peer assessment and teacher assessment techniques.

There is a natural progression to examination level Drama and in the second part of the seminar Melissa will use a variety of more advanced stimulus suitable for GCSE students. The lesson plans will explore methods of engaging and motivating all students whilst ensuring that the most able achieve at the highest level. Assessment approaches will be considered in relation to the activities and integral to the planning.

The seminar will involve practical drama activities where delegates will experience the strategies in practice.


John Connor Sponsored by insetcourses.com

MFL

Room: C206

A former Head of Faculty, local authority adviser and OFSTED team inspector, John Connor has held middle leadership roles in a variety of schools, and has worked in both the primary and secondary sectors. John is an independent consultant, trainer and author who has provided training and directed teaching and learning quality audits across the UK, the Channel Islands, the Middle East and the Far East. He has recently worked with both Primary and Secondary Schools in developing many strategies for Outstanding Teaching & Learning. John also provides training & consultancy for Middle and Senior Leaders on developing Pastoral Leadership.

He has recently been supporting three local authorities in developing their primary languages strategy, which has included teaching in KS2 and building capacity in the primary workforce through training. He has also worked as a senior examiner at both GCSE and A Level for major awarding bodies, and has also advised on the International Baccalaureate and IGCSE.

John is an Assessor for the Advanced Skills Teacher/Excellent Teacher programme for the DfE. He worked on the Development Programme as a Regional Trainer. He was also a Regional Subject Adviser for the roll out of the new secondary curriculum, and featured as a trainer for the now discontinued Links into Languages regional support structure. John is also a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

John Connor: Primary - MFL: The New KS2 Programme of Study – challenges and opportunities


This seminar will examine the Programme of Study for KS2 published in September 2013 for first delivery in September 2014 in English schools.

Delegates will have the opportunity to examine the implications of the statements contained in the Programme of Study in terms of their impact on resourcing, teaching and learning, assessment and issues around transition.

John Connor: Secondary - MFL: Assessment without levels – where next?


This seminar will examine some of the pitfalls of the old system and the reasons why levels were scrapped.

Delegates will have the opportunity to consider ways of assessing progress and attainment which focus on developing linguistic competence, and the pivotal role that Assessment for Learning can play as part of this process.


Steve Burnage Sponsored by insetcourses.com

Difficult and challenging parents and students

Room: C107

Steve is an experienced INSET Leader who has spent more than 25 years supporting high-quality learning and teaching in schools.

Steve is an experienced leader of teacher and leadership appraisal and performance management. Recent performance management experience includes producing materials, and leading performance management training, to primary & secondary schools and academies throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East. This was completed under the recent changes to UK legislation.

Steve is sought after as an expert practitioner, consultant and training who hosts training and consultancy in primary and secondary schools, colleges, academies and conference venues throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East for insetcourses.com.

Steve Burnage: Building outstanding relationships with difficult and challenging parents and students - Primary & Secondary focus


From time to time all staff will be faced by a difficult and demanding parent or student. From challenging academic results to accusations of bullying, both parents and students can be very intimidating or even aggressive.

This seminar will explore the motivations behind challenging behaviour, provide practical strategies to build more positive relationships with even the most challenging of parents and students; and establish procedures through which teachers, parents and students can work more cooperatively together in support of outstanding learning and teaching.

This seminar is suitable for anyone, including support and admin staff, from both primary and secondary phases and will cover:

• Parents and students as consumers - and the issues this raises• Dealing with anger and confrontation• Defusing difficult situations and avoiding escalation• The surprise encounter• Effective meetings with parents and students• Your legal responsibilities


Sofia Ali – Sponsored by insetcourses.com

EAL (Primary and Secondary)Room: C108

Sofia Ali is a freelance education consultant who provides advice, training and con-sultancy on working with refugees and new arrivals for local authorities and schools.

Formerly the National Strategies consultant for the New Arrivals Excellence Programme (NAEP), Sofia works with schools to develop classroom practice to engage, include and empower pupils who have English as an additional language. Sophia is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

Sofia Ali: Quality First Teaching and Learning for EAL Pupils in the Primary ClassroomFriday 08:45 – 10:00 AND CONTINUES 10:30 – 11:45

This practical seminar will look at a range of strategies that are supportive of bilingual learners in primary classrooms.

We will consider:• active reading, • talk for writing• developing language and literacy in the primary classroom

Sofia Ali: Enabling Great Learning for EAL Students in Secondary Classrooms Thursday 09:45 – 11:00 AND CONTINUES 11:30 – 12:45

This practical seminar will explore a range of strategies across different subject areas that are supportive of EAL learners in secondary classrooms.

We will focus on:• working with advanced bilingual learners • developing academic language in different curricular areas.

Andy Frapwell Sponsored by insetcourses.com

PE (Primary and Secondary)

Room: C205

Andrew Frapwell is highly-regarded both nationally and internationally in the design and development of effective and sustainable bespoke courses to meet Physical Education teachers’ professional development needs. He has worked with a range of stakeholders at local, regional, national and international level including government agencies and authorities serviced by charitable trusts including Youth Sport Trust (YST) and the Association for Physical Education (AfPE). Andy is a regular speaker for insetcourses.com.

His experience in the UK includes supporting the implementation of the secondary PE National Curriculum (2007-10), and lead consultant for the Specialist Schools Academies Trust (SSAT) supporting the implementation of the Sport and Active Leisure Diploma (2009-2010).

Previously Andrew worked as a Senior Teacher, Assistant Training Manager and Head of Department in schools and subsequently at the University of Worcester (UoW, 1996 – 2004) as Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Secondary Subject Leader partnered with some thirty school departments, and as PE Curriculum Leader. He has presented and authored extensively on Physical Education including his most recent book “In Deep: Learning to Learn in Physical Education”. Currently Andrew works as an Education Consultant.

Andy Frapwell: Improving learning and progress in Primary PE - Assessment as a catalyst for change


Research over the last 15 years widely accepts that the most important role of teaching is to raise pupils’ achievement. This shift views good teaching, as being centred on the facilitation of pupil learning and progress. The focus of attention is firmly upon the pupil, and teacher activity is of value or of interest only in respect of what it enables pupils to achieve.


This has resulted in a de-emphasis on the grading function of assessment and a re-emphasis on the learning function. As well as updating delegates on the National Curriculum 2014 changes, this workshop will therefore consider: How we use assessment to help pupils learn more and progress quicker in Physical Education?; the positive impact learning and progress in PE can have on learning and progress in other subjects; and assessment as a key driver for evolving our curriculum and teaching.

Andy Frapwell: The future of assessment in Secondary PE - shaping teaching, learning and curriculum


On the 11 September 2013 the slimmed-down English National Curriculum for 2014 was released. A key feature of the Key Stage 1-4 Programme of Study for Physical Education is the integrated attainment target, and the removal of the current system of level descriptors.

This workshop will explore the rationale for this change in the context of assessment practice and reform globally; assessment that is fit for purpose; update delegates on the National Curriculum for 2014; and seek to explore two fundamental assessment questions: “How are we doing?” and “How can we do it better?” in relation to our curriculum and teaching & learning practice.

Charlie Warshawski Sponsored by insetcourses.com

The Essential Tool Kit

Room: B211

Our Keynote speaker and sponsored by insetcourses.com! Charlie writes material and delivers training for groups from 2-200, for schools, local authorities & commercial organisations, on a range of topics including: Leadership and Management; Presentation and public speaking skills; Compliance; Accelerated learning and memory skills; Coaching and communication skills; Raising achievement and motivation; Engagement; Effective relationship management.

As a coaching specialist, Charlie has delivered over 500 hours of 1:1 and team coaching. His coaching skills training courses are Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) accredited.

Charlie Warshawski: The Essential Tool Kit - Skills, strategies & activities to get the best out of yourself and your team. (For primary and secondary staff)

Thursday 13:45 – 15:00 AND CONTINUES 15:30 – 16:45 Friday 12:45 – 14:00 AND CONTINUES 14:30 – 15:45

Developing strong leadership skills takes time, support and plenty of self-reflection. Operational demands make this difficult and leaders find themselves learning many of their skills by trial and error, under pressure.

This workshop gives leaders at all levels the opportunity to consider their strengths and how to build on them. The focus is on developing a robust toolkit of approaches that can be used to manage both the team and themselves. Themes of the seminar include:

• Understanding my leadership approach• Being comfortable with new challenges• Implementing new initiatives


• Sophisticated ways to motivate and influence• Giving supportive feedback and challenging respectfully

Often leaders can be reassured that they are on the right track in their activities, and just need some affirmation so that they can continue to develop. This seminar is the ideal platform for the next stage of your leadership development.

Bogdan Copil

Gamification

Room: B210

Bogdan is a senior school science teacher at The Prague British School. He graduated as valedictorian from the nano technology department of the University of Bucharest. After going through the teacher training at the same university, he started a master degree in education – Andragogy. He has been working with the gifted and talented students from the International Computer High School of Bucharest, preparing them for various national and international competitions. Previously he has been working on a new model of self-directed learning and Heutagogy. Passionate about teaching, he always tries to find new methods of motivating students and actively involving them in the learning process. For this purpose he started a pilot program of Gamification with his Year 7 and 8 students, after graduating the Gamification course offered by the University of Pennsylvania and Coursera. In his 9 years of teaching, this project has been the most fruitful when it comes to student motivation and results improvement.

Bogdan Copil: Using game elements in order to motivate students in Key Stages 1-3.

Thursday 09:45 – 11:00

Gamification is the use of game thinking and game mechanics to engage users in solving problems. Gamification techniques strive to leverage people‘s natural desires for competition, achievement, status, self-expression, altruism, and closure. In today’s world, when students are more and more connected to their devices and spend more and more time on games, we can use this for our advantage as teachers – gamify the learning process and see how students will get more and more attracted by your topic!

This session will be an introductory session and a trove of resources that can be used to gamify your classroom.

A good info graph about Gamification in education can be found here: http://www.knewton.com/gamification-education/


Justin Kilcullen-Nichols

Teaching through Debate

Room: B210

Justin is the current Head of Science and debating coach at Prague British School. He has six years of experience training and mentoring students in debate techniques, and a proven track record on the international competitive circuit.

Teaching Through Debate

Thursday 11:30 – 12:45

KS3-5: This seminar aims to introduce teachers to the use of debate in the classroom, discuss the evidence surrounding the effectiveness of learning through debate, and provide teachers with the tools needed to introduce their students to this exciting and engaging method of learning.

Kateřina Švejdová Sponsored by Blackfires

Jolly Phonics How to teach reading and writing in a fun and multi-sensory way

Room: B106

Katerina has been teaching children of all ages for 20 years, from the nursery up to pensioner age! She has taught in Czech, bilingual and international schools in the Czech Republic.

She has masters in elementary teaching (1991 Ostrava, CZ) and M.A. in curriculum and teaching (2005 Michigan, USA). Katerina currently works as a Grade 1 teacher in a bilingual state school in Ostrava and has been using Jolly Phonics since 2003.

Jolly Phonics for Beginners


This workshop will be opened for beginners, for the ones who have not used Jolly Phonics yet. The Workshop will be theoretical as well as practical with a focus on Early Years and Key Stage 1.

Jolly Phonics for advanced users


This workshop will be opened for the ones, who have been using Jolly Phonics and would like to share ideas and see what is new on the market.


Kristin Bostrom Heather Oxley

EAL Session: ‘This Way Up’

Room: B210

Over the last 17 years, Kristin has been working as a TEFL teacher for adults and a secondary teacher of EAL and Music. She is currently the Head of the EAL department at the Prague British School (senior school). She has extensive experience with students who begin English schooling in their teens. At present, she is focusing on the balance between the provision of first and second languages for EAL students.

Heather has 30 years of experience working internationally in 3 areas- TEFL for adults and children, Teacher Training for the British Council and other organisations, and as a secondary teacher of British English mainstream, Humanities and EAL. Her particular interests are the provision of a holistic curriculum for secondary students joining a school with limited English language competency. She works with Kristin at Prague British School.

THIS WAY UP!

Thursday 13:45 – 15:00

For teenagers, moving internationally can be quite traumatic. Even more so when they have to struggle with English to access the learning they need for a successful future. Prague British School prides itself

on being the school ‘where people want to be’ and the EAL department is currently working alongside the rest of the staff to make sure that the school is a positive experience for new arrivals with limited English competency.

This seminar is for anyone involved or interested in the provision of education for these kinds of students and looks at how we can maintain and support progress. We address both classroom issues and how we can set up systems for provision that are flexible and adaptable. We will be using examples of good practice from our work at PBS and sharing good practice and new ideas on how to make sure it is ‘This way UP!’


Maurice Graham Sponsored by Karen Ardley Associates

4 Day Middle Leaders Course

Room: H101

Maurice has been a Head Teacher and Executive Head Teacher leading secondary schools in England for 15 years. This leadership has enabled schools, some in challenging environments, to improve and be judged outstanding by Ofsted.

Maurice is an experienced and highly successful facilitator working with National College and the University of Manchester on a wide range of leadership development programmes.

Recently Maurice has undertaken consultancy and professional development work in Africa and Middle East.

He is a popular and successful mentor and coach supporting colleagues to develop as effective leaders. He firmly believes it is great people who make great schools!

Dates: 20th – 23rd February

The Middle Leaders’ course for Primary and Secondary staff will run at the same time as the COBIS Conference and in the same location although it is a separate course. It will continue into the weekend after the COBIS conference finishes.

Course Objectives over the four days:• To deepen middle managers’ understanding of themselves and their leadership behaviours• To extend middle managers’ knowledge and understanding about leadership• To develop leadership skills

The programme will focus on the following key areas:• the role of the middle leader/manager;• our current educational agenda;• an emotionally intelligent leader;• effective professional development;• working with teams;• giving feedback;• coaching for improvement;• improving teaching and learning in your area; • presentation skills.

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