Endeavour Learning Teaching School Alliance

Teaching and Learning

Spring Conference

Evidence Informed CPD to Deliver Quality First Teaching

Monday 4th March 2019 9am-3pm

Leyland Golf Club Wigan Road, Leyland PR25 5UD

£75 for ELTSA members £95 for Non-members

For more information please contact our Partnership Development Officer [email protected]

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Amjad Ali

Amjad Ali is a Teacher, Trainer, TEDx speaker and Senior Leader. He has spent his teaching career working in challenging, diverse schools. He is a qualified, practising SENCO, Amjad is also an Advanced Skills Teacher in Teaching and Learning. He has worked with all sectors in education and with trainee teachers to Head Teachers, delivering training on a range of topics across the and world.

Amjad is ambitious and committed to making a difference to the education system by inspiring changes. He is a current teacher, who tweets and tweaks his practice to help others improve theirs. Which in turn helps him and his students too. For Amjad, education is about ensuring wherever you come from, whatever your parents do or not do, does not impact on a students' potential of success. Whatever success means to that young person, it should be found and celebrated.

Amjad will be delivering a keynote on the importance of quality first teaching and being evidence informed. He then will lead a workshop on low effort, high impact strategies.

www.trythisteaching.com

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Leon Walker Paul Rowlandson

Leon Walker is Deputy Paul is Lead Teacher Headteacher at at Trinity Academy Cop High School in Halifax. .

After graduating in Biochemistry with Management Paul has been teaching Mathematics for ten years, from Imperial College he took his PGCE at fulfilling roles as a Lead Teacher, Assistant Manchester University and embarked on his Principal and Specialist Leader of Education. teaching career as NQT in Science in 2001. He developed a keen interest in assessment and an During his time on senior leadership he took part in evidence based approach to school improvement. two international exchange programmes, visiting Shanghai and Tokyo to seek inspiration from Leon moved to Meols Cop in Easter 2014 where he leading jurisdictions and share new ideas with is currently leading the Research School and colleagues. After completing a Masters Degree in facilitating the national trial into assessment and Education, Paul is now part way through a part-time marking in English, FLASH Marking. Meols Cop doctorate and is interested in how different planning was recently designated as a research school in decisions can affect how well students remember September 2017. what they learn.

Leon will lead a session on how to develop During this session, Paul will explore the evidence-informed CPD in order to improve T&L impact of spacing and interleaving on and students outcomes. long-term memory.

The key findings from the research articles will be presented in gameshow format, with prizes MCHS Research School available for the winning contestant! @mchsresearch ponderingplanning.wordpress.com @Mr_Rowlandson