Flipped Learning – Possible approaches at Abdul Sattar – KS4 and 5 Expected outcomes • an understanding of the nature of flipped learning • an appreciation of a range of strategies that could be used in and out of the classroom to enable a flipped approach Workshop details • an understanding of possible challenges and possible approaches • What is flipped learning? • Possible benefits of flipped learning • Approaches outside the classroom • Approaches inside the classroom. • Possible problems and possible solutions Target audience - Teachers at KS4 and 5 Abdul Sattar (Currently Head of Department at a large comprehensive in Northamptonshire and SCITT Subject Leader for the Grand Union Teaching Partnership) Adam Dean - Scalextric Race Day Expected outcomes A DIY Scalextric racer. Attain knowledge and understanding of laser cutting, aerodynamics, 3D printing and applying these technologies to produce (and subsequently compete with) a Scalextric based race car. Workshop details • Introduce Scalextric race track • Demonstrate 3D printing (to produce winner’s trophy) and laser cutting (to produce race car) • Solder motors • Test bodywork designs in miniature scale wind tunnel • Build car • Test • Race • Crown winner and present 3D printed trophy Target audience - Anyone interested in technology and engineering How does SOLO taxonomy develop a Andy Day (@Andyphilipday) – route for more sophisticated thinking by students? Expected outcomes A clear picture of the underlying concepts of SOLO taxonomy, its potential uses in the classroom, examples of how it is being used by teachers, and an awareness of the potential pitfalls in misapplying SOLO. Participants should go away with some practical ideas of why and how they might apply SOLO taxonomy in their forthcoming teaching and assessment to improve both their and their student’s development of sophistication in their subject. Workshop details The origin of SOLO taxonomy; its contribution to developing schemes of work and lesson activities (and assessment); illustrative examples of how teachers have used it; its potential for profiling student progress and development; and awareness of how it can be misapplied. Hopefully there will be time for participants to explore how you might apply SOLO taxonomy to your own teaching to overcome potential obstacles in the learning process. Target audience - Primary, Secondary and Further Ed. phases. All subjects. Those who want to find out about SOLO, and those who wish to develop their practice in it. Andy Day (Andy recently finished being a classroom geographer after 35 years in two schools in East Yorkshire, as head of geography, head of the humanities faculty and director of the Humanities Specialism. He has written about teaching and Geography for much of that time with articles in the TES, Geography GCSE Wideworld, and Teaching Geography and has just completed several chapters for CUP’s new A level geography textbook. In the last two years he has presented at Teach Meets in York, Leeds, London, Southampton and Toulouse with workshops on classroom practice and the benefits he found in using SOLO taxonomy with his classes from Y8 to Y13. He currently visits schools on a regular basis and works with students and teachers developing STEM career ambitions.) Atif Mahamood (@LumiciSlate) - User Design Experience in Edtech Expected outcomes Understand the growth in Edtech and the importance of active engagement from the teaching community. Help those teachers who are teacher entrepreneurs take the first steps into Edtech. Workshop details Introduction to the objective of Lumici Slate and why we're here. It’s not a sales pitch but an opportunity to establish a unique partnership. What’s happening in the USA and South East Asia and how can take lessons from there. Good design - schools are more than just a practical building! Target audience – Teachers looking to actively participate and build a partnership with an Edtech start-up Lumici Slate. Teachers who want to contribute to an alternative solution to current overcomplicated learning platforms and VLE's. Teacher entrepreneurs who embrace the use of technology in learning and teaching and see the importance of simplicity and design as key ingredients. Reading for pleasure is the key Bill Lord (@Joga5) - to progress Expected outcomes Teachers will leave some strategies for developing their school as a reading school, knowledge of some books they didn’t know and translated books as well as a big shopping list. Workshop details During this session, Bill will share some of the strategies used at his school and others which have developed a love of books in their pupils. Bill will talk through his ‘Reading Rights of the Child’ through a range of books which he loves and has shared with children. There will be time to look at books and to share approaches from the schools of those attending as well so that the group will produce their own version of the Reading Rights. Target audience - Primary Practitioners Bill Lord (Head Teacher, Long Sutton Primary School) Bukky Yusuf (@rondelle10_b) - Engaging revision strategies Expected outcomes Review, design and draft revision resources for one topic. Workshop details The session will review / model a number of revision strategies that maximise student engagement, aid effective revision and raises student confidence. Participants are encouraged to bring scheme of learning for one topic they would then design revision materials for. Target audience – Key stage 3/4/5 teachers Bukky Yusuf (Associate Assistant Head Teacher at Clapton Girls’ Academy, leading the NQT / ITT development programme and IT to enhance teaching & learning across the whole school. She has spent over a decade in London schools, teaching Science and post 16 Chemistry. She is also a Secondary Science Consultant and qualified coach.) Cat Bearne - Building a Self-functioning Classroom Expected outcomes Staff will spend some time setting up systems in their classroom which allows for smother running of differentiation, rewards and homework Workshop details Introduce 5 aspects of my classroom. - Homework board -“So you think you’re finished?” board - Student-teacher board - Rewards system maintained by students - Board of Positivity Opportunity to ask questions and share similar ideas, When/how/what they will implement in their own classrooms Target audience – (Secondary) All subjects and all teachers (but especially recently/newly qualified) Cat Bearne (Maths Teacher) Is My Questioning the Best It Helen Rogersron (@hrogerson) - Could Be? Expected outcomes To help delegates reflect on their own questioning and come up with strategies for asking good questions and making them work best in their classroom. Workshop details Delegates will be given the opportunity to reflect on why they use questions, why questions are important in teaching, how they might reflect on their use in the classroom, and strategies for asking questions that tell you want you want to know about the students' understanding. Target audience – all teachers Helen Rogersron (Head of Science at Westonbirt School) Using Games in Education (and not just James Diamond - Minecraft!) Expected outcomes to provide ideas for teachers to incorporate mainstream Videogames across different curriculum areas, understanding of how to use Videogame media in a safer and more engaging way. Workshop details Videogames have evolved and matured in recent years, and many can work brilliantly not only as technical tools to aide learning in the classroom, but as media texts that help students to understand issues as diverse as wartime atrocities, immigration, and depression. This session will discuss some of the games that James has used in the classroom, as well as opportunities to use videogames to engage with students outside of the classroom. Target audience – Primary and Secondary teachers James Diamond (Details of leader) Magenta Principles Moat Jessica Lees and Jo Higham (@joanne_higham) Style! Expected outcomes Teachers leave armed with a list of ready-made strategies that they can implement Workshop details Mike Hughes Magenta Principles: its about what students DO with the information they are given in class. Simple tweaks are very effective. We will show you how Moat has adopted some of the key principles to further improve student engagement. Target audience – Secondary teachers (any subject area) Jo Higham (Vice Principal T&L at Moat Community College. I have worked in 6 different schools between Glasgow and Brighton and finally settled in Leicester! Before Moat I was Head of MFL at Bosworth Sports College) Jess Lees (Teaching and Learning Leader at Moat Community College. I previously worked at Riverside before Moat) Hands off, I own that! How to teach Jo Badge (@jobadge) children about using resources online that & Nicholas Overton belong to others safely and with respect. Expected outcomes Teachers will know how to search for images that can be re-used and published by children. Teachers will gain an understanding of how Creative Commons licenses allow images to be repurposed. Teachers will gain ideas on how to teach children about using resources online that belong to others safely and with respect. Workshop details Information and resources are so readily available and freely shared online that many of us don’t give a second thought to whether stuff on the Internet belongs to anyone. Children (and many teachers!) have a host of misconceptions about ownership and publishing online that conflict with the aims of the National Curriculum