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Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. For school leaders. CPD resources: what is available?

Primary leadership in learning, which has an impact on children’s outcomes. Leadership that focuses on teaching and learning. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.

Learning objectives

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a senior school leader, to develop further the use of learning objectives, to help your children develop as motivated and successful independent learners.
Teacher modelling

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a school senior leader, to develop further the use of teacher modelling as part of shared work in the classroom. Materials include resources for face-to-face meetings as well as elearning.
Questioning and dialogue

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a school senior leader, to improve the use of questions and dialogue in the classroom. Materials include resources for face-to-face meetings as well as elearning.
Group work

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a school senior leader, to improve the use of group work in the classroom. Materials include resources for face-to-face meetings as well as elearning.
Guided learning

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a school senior leader, to improve the use of guided learning in the classroom. Materials include resources for face-to-face meetings as well as elearning.
Independent work

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a school senior leader, to develop the quality of independent learning across the school. Materials include resources for face-to-face meetings as well as elearning.
One-to-one tuition

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a school senior leader, to develop the quality of one-to-one tuition across the school. Materials include resources for face-to-face meetings as well as elearning.

Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. For school leaders. Improving teaching CPD resources

Primary leadership in learning, which has an impact on children’s outcomes. Research into leadership that focuses on teaching and learning. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.

Materials to support CPD

Primary leadership in learning, which has an impact on children’s outcomes. Research into leadership that focuses on teaching and learning. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.
Leading teaching and learning

Primary leadership in learning, which has an impact on children’s outcomes. Leadership that focuses on teaching and learning. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.
Characteristics of good teaching

Leadership focusing on teaching and learning. How primary leaders can support professional learning and development about pedagogy. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.
Teaching repertoire of skills and techniques

Leadership focusing on teaching and learning. How primary leaders can support professional learning and development about pedagogy. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.
Conditions for learning

Leadership focusing on teaching and learning. How primary leaders can support professional learning and development about pedagogy. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.
Subject and curriculum knowledge

Leadership focusing on teaching and learning. How primary leaders can support professional learning and development about pedagogy. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching.
Teaching and learning models

Leadership focusing on teaching and learning. How primary leaders can support professional learning and development about pedagogy. Resources to support primary school leaders in tackling weaknesses in the quality of teaching

Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary

Teachers can use these e-learning modules to support them in extending and deepening their knowledge and understanding of key aspect of teaching and learning. Each module offers a guided route through practical strategies that can be tried out and applied in the classroom.

Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. Learning objectives

This resource will help you to develop further the use of learning objectives, to help your children develop as motivated and successful independent learners.
Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. Teacher modelling

Improve explanations and demonstrations by explaining your actions as you show children what to do. This resource shows how you can extend your teaching techniques by adding modelling to your skills set.
Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. Questioning and dialogue

Questioning is a key way in which teachers find out what children know and understand. Effective questioning extends teacher–child dialogue to develop understanding and deepen thinking. This resource shows how you can extend your teaching repertoire by developing your use of questions and dialogue with and between children.
Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. Group work

Develop your repertoire of teaching and learning techniques through the development of successful group work in your teaching. Help children to work collaboratively in groups, develop strategies for effective communication, and engage in the learning process through effective collaboration and sharing.
Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. Guided learning

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will help you to improve the use of guided learning in the classroom.
Improving teaching: leading learning – Primary. Independent work

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you to help your children develop as motivated and successful independent learners.
Improving teaching: leading learning. One-to-one tuition

Extend the teaching repertoire of all teachers in your school. This resource will support you, as a senior school leader, to develop further the effective use of one-to-one tuition, to help your children develop as motivated and successful independent learners.

Strengthening pedagogy with ICT: Early adopters' project with 8 case studies

Introduction to the strengthening pedagogy with ICT initiative, outlining the aims behind this project and explaining what the Early Adopters project is. Includes information on who the target audience is for this initiative and links to several case studies.

Improving the use of ICT in Foundation Stage: Case studies

Introduction to the ‘Using ICT in EYs Project’. The main thrust of the project was to support the raising of children’s achievements in ICT capability within the Early Years. The enquiry-based project focused upon the embedding of observational assessment practices across the Early Years and sought to involve children and their parents or carers in that process.

Conclusions and recommendations

Conclusions and recommendations from the ‘Using ICT in Early Years Project’.

Year 4 Planning guidance

Page showing links and downloads for the following: 'Learning English as an additional language'; 'Literacy across the curriculum' and 'Planning in Year 4'.

Leading professional learning through children's learning

Explanation of how leadership of school improvement needs to ensure that all adults engaged in the learning process are professionally equipped for the task. Professional learning that has an impact on classrooms involves: learning-focused activity; two or more teachers working together; shared planning; joint observation of groups of children; interviewing and talking to children; evaluation of learning; refining the plans for further teaching; The page also links to: Developing your practice; Developing strategies that promote classroom dialogue; and the booklet: Leading improvement using the Primary Framework.

Whole school: Supporting pedagogy

Introduction to and working definition of pedagogy as the act of teaching and its rationale, based on professional knowledge in four interrelated domains: 1) Subject and curriculum knowledge, 2) Teaching repertoire of skills and techniques, 3) Teaching and learning models, 4) Conditions for learning.

Supporting pedagogy: Conditions for learning

Explains the ways in which teachers can draw on their understanding of learners and child development and create learning spaces.

Early Years and the Foundation Stage

Explains the ways in which teachers can draw on their understanding of learners to create activities that are fun, relevant and motivating for each child. Practitioners delivering the Foundation Stage curriculum therefore support learning through planned play and extending and developing spontaneous play.
Primary

Information about the role of the National Curriculum and the Primary National Strategy learning and teaching framework in defining and encouraging the use of teachers' professional knowledge of pedagogy within the increased flexibility of the Framework.
Secondary

Information on Pedagogy and practice: Teaching and learning in secondary schools (20 self-study units covering aspects of pedagogy) and Behaviour and attendance toolkit units.

Supporting pedagogy: Subject and curriculum knowledge

Overview of the understanding which needs to be developed in order to obtain well-founded and secure subject and curriculum knowledge.

Primary

Information about the role of the National Curriculum and the Primary National Strategy learning and teaching framework in defining and encouraging the use of teachers' professional knowledge of pedagogy within the increased flexibility of the Framework.
Early Years and the Foundation Stage

Explains the philosophy of learning in the EYFS. The philosophy underpinning the Foundation Stage curriculum is that learning should be carefully planned and structured, with an emphasis on activities that are fun, relevant and motivating for each child. Practitioners delivering the Foundation Stage curriculum therefore support children's learning through planned play and extending and developing children's spontaneous play.
Secondary: Key Resources

Links to resources in Key Stage 3 frameworks, English, ICT and mathematics.

Primary

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