Training Courses and Educational Resources for Schools and Teachers

Inclusion is rightly a major priority for schools. But effective inclusion involves more than policies, interventions and additional support. It depends on what happens in classrooms every day.Drawing on research from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), this highly practical course explores five evidence-informed approaches that can support pupils with additional needs while benefiting their classmates too.Chris demonstrates how explicit instruction, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, scaffolding, flexible grouping and the appropriate use of technology can be incorporated into everyday teaching. With examples from across the primary curriculum, the course helps teachers consider how to make learning more accessible without creating entirely separate approaches for different groups of pupils.The aim is to make inclusive teaching part of everyday classroom practice, not something additional that teachers are expected to do.

This course helps school leaders to answer two questions: How effective is your curriculum? How do you know? 

Lesson observations can provide valuable insights into the quality of teaching, but what should we actually be looking for? And how can we use what we observe to help teachers improve?Too often, observations rely on general impressions or lengthy checklists rather than a clear understanding of effective teaching. A more productive approach is to focus on specific aspects of classroom practice, informed by research into how pupils learn.This evidence-informed course explores 12 principles of effective teaching and provides 30 practical areas of focus that school leaders can use when observing lessons. Chris examines the implications of cognitive science, including prior knowledge, memory, cognitive load, assessment, feedback and adaptive teaching, with examples of what these principles might look like in the classroom.The course also explores how observation findings can inform professional development, helping leaders move beyond identifying strengths and weaknesses towards developing teachers' expertise.The aim is to make lesson observations more purposeful, more precise and more useful for improving teaching.