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Raising Aspirations for Successful Futures

Through Professional Development

2018-19

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A Message from the Principal Joseph Chamberlain College is committed to lifelong

learning and the professional development of all our staff

As always our continuing professional development

programme (CPD) provides an excellent base for supporting

ongoing improvements in teaching, learning and assessment and for improving the functions of our

administration support areas. Our local and national recognition has enabled us to extend our collaborative

partnerships with teacher training providers and teaching school alliances and to enhance our reputation of excellence

in CPD. This year we will also be offering the level 5 Diploma in Education and Training (DET) programme and

already have several members of staff on this course as well as a number of others on leadership programmes.

Our internal development activities naturally focus primarily

on teachers as they are central to students’ achievements but we are increasingly mindful of providing quality CPD for

our support staff too. Apart from the mandatory CPD

courses we will continue to expand our offer to remain current and pro-active in the training we provide.

The rolling programme provides CPD in response to

identified needs throughout the year. Once again this year we will continue to offer a range of opportunities and

encourage staff members to share their expertise by delivering sessions in the CPD programme. If you would

like to be involved contact Tom Williams. Remember, as you teach you also learn alongside expanding your

expertise and skill as a presenter.

Elly Tobin

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4047 hours of CPD

attended 2017-18

Staff Feedback on CPD 2017-18

Useful to future practice. Resources can be used

across multiple subjects! Assessment for Learning Techniques, March 2018

Great ideas to take away. Great discussion that allowed us to share

valuable ideas and tips.

Developing Students’ Academic Writing Skills, November 2017

Really informative, engaging and refreshing. ‘Developing Leaders’ Programme, March 2018

Enjoyed the discussion points around British Values and how to employ them in

the classroom.

Promoting British Values, October 2017

Fantastic, informative and pertinent ideas relative to

practical implementation. Using a variety of assessment methods in vocational learning, March 2018

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Contents

Page 6 Whole College Professional Development

Page 8 Stretch and Challenge

Page 10 Assessment for Learning (AfL)

Page 12 Classroom Essentials

Page 14 Support for Learning

Page 17 Teaching Strategies

Page 22 Technology in Teaching and Learning

Page 24 Inclusive Learning

Page 26 Adult Learning

Page 27 Delivering Higher Education

Page 28 Leadership Development

Page 30 Developing Subject Expertise

Page 31 Consistently Outstanding

Page 33 Job Shadowing

Page 34 Mandatory Training

Page 36 Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs)

Page 38 Business Support Areas

Page 39 Staff Induction

Page 41 South Network Birmingham

Page 42 Bishop Challoner Teaching School Alliance

Time Off in Lieu

A member of staff taking part in a twilight session (4.15-5.15pm) can add this hour to their time off in lieu, for

teaching staff to be taken on the Thursday 11th July 2019. Teaching staff who have not accrued the required hours will undertake training on this day.

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All Staff Development Morning

Date Time

Friday 31st August 2018 9.00am - 1.45pm

The first of the whole College development days will cover

the safeguarding update, allergy briefing and Reflecting on

Success in team areas.

Training will be followed by the all staff BBQ to welcome

new staff and provide team building for all.

Developing Subject Expertise –

Professional Development Day

Date Time

Wednesday 24th October 2018 9.00am - 3.00pm

The second College development day will see the launch of

this year’s Developing Subject Expertise projects, which

will see further collaboration between teachers, focussed

particularly on subject specialisms. The initiative will be

supported and developed throughout the year and will

reflect individual and area subject needs. Additional

sessions will run parallel for those staff involved Higher

Education and delivery of vocational Pearson qualifications.

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The Learning Fair

Date Time

Friday 15th February 2019 9.00am - 3.00pm

The third of the whole college professional development days will be a Learning Fair where staff from across the

College will share their experiences and techniques from a range of curriculum delivery. The Learning Fair forms part of the College’s strategy for sharing effective practice and

developing a consistently excellent experience for students across all subject areas.

The full programme and bookings system will be released

in February 2019.

All Staff Development Day

Date Time Friday 5th July 2019 9.00am - 3.00pm

The fourth of the whole college professional development

days will address the key needs for improvement identified

through the College’s quality improvement processes.

Details of the programme will be released later in the year.

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Activities to stretch and challenge your

most able

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 13th November 2018 4.15pm - 5.15pm, 1CN04

Thursday 14th March 2019 4.15pm - 5.15pm, 1CN04

Our most able learners often need specifically different

techniques and approaches to support them to reach their

potential. This session aims to provide colleagues with

immediately usable ideas for them to try.

Creating a challenging questioning

environment

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 27th November 2018 4.15pm - 5.15pm, Red Room

Tuesday 19th March 2019 4.15pm - 5.15pm, 0CS10

It can be too easy for students to respond to questioning,

or challenge, with an 'I don't know' response, or inactivity.

This session focusses on the approaches to questioning and

task design that minimise this from happening, and

maximise student engagement, confidence and risk taking.

Stretch and Challenge

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Questioning as a stretch and challenge

tool

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 13th November 2018 4.15pm - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

Tuesday 26th February 2019 4.15pm - 5.15pm, Red Room

A key tool to challenge our most able learners are

questions. This session will focus on the structure, delivery,

and purpose of questioning to support the progress made

by students who arrive into your lessons with the highest

prior ability.

Stretch and challenge in a vocational

classroom

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 19th March 2019 4.15pm - 5.15pm, Red Room

This session will focus on bringing together the most

effective techniques for ensuring that classroom activities

and assessment tasks within a vocational setting are

suitably challenging. It will offer immediately useful

approaches to project work that can stretch all students,

bringing together vocational teachers to share approaches

that have worked.

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Advanced questioning techniques

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 4th December 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

Tuesday 5th March 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

If you have been teaching for around 14-and-a-half years,

you could be about to ask your one-millionth question. Teachers ask up to two questions every minute, up to 400 in a day, around 70,000 a year, or two to three million over

the course of a career. Questions are very important. This session focusses on advanced methods of asking them.

Effective assessment techniques

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 20th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CN16

Thursday 28th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm,

Moseley Road Adult Centre

This session will explore approaches to assessing learning

during a class. Colleagues will leave with Assessment for

Learning techniques that are designed to check progress as

well as encourage active learning.

Assessment for Learning

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Peer and self-assessment to compliment

traditional techniques

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 4th December 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 2CS07

Tuesday 5th March 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 2CS07

For 20 years, the ideas around Assessment for Learning

have focussed on ensuring that teachers and students are

aware of the progress they are making, barriers to their

learning, and what they need to do improve. If done

effectively, self and peer assessment can offer a powerful

tool to support this process.

Using a variety of assessment methods

in vocational learning

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 27th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

A varied approach to assessment within vocational areas

can create challenges. This session offers techniques to

increase your vocational assessment repertoire, and even

ways of reducing workload.

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Classroom Essentials: lesson design

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 15th January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 2CN10

In the first of the Classroom Essentials package of support

offered to colleagues, this session focusses on the crucial approaches required for effective lesson design. What is the purpose of certain tasks, when should assessment take

place, and what are the options available for using the final stages of a lesson? This session will offer some answers,

and is open to teachers and aspiring teachers.

Classroom Essentials: assessment for

learning

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 22nd January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

In the second of the Classroom Essential package, this session focusses on the essential characteristics of

effective Assessment for Learning. Focussing on tools to assess the progress of learners, ensure students understand their own progress, and ways we can offer

useful feedback, this is a session open to teachers and aspiring teachers.

Classroom Essentials

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Classroom Essentials: questioning toolkit

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 29th January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

The third session of the Classroom Essentials collection

focusses on questioning. Questions form a foundation stone

for both assessment, developing student thinking and

learning, and adding challenge into the discussions we have

with our students. This session will focus on how

questioning can be effective.

Classroom Essentials: starting and

ending your lessons

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 5th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 2CN10

In the final instalment of the Classroom Essentials package,

this session will focus on how the beginning and end of

lessons are important places for consolidation,

contextualising learning, and checking progress. This

session is open to all teachers and aspiring teachers.

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Developing students' study skills

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 2nd April 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

Coming at a time that many students will begin thinking

about their final preparations for final examination, this

session will focus on the techniques that we can equip our

learners with to ensure that the time they spend working

independently is as useful as it possibly can be.

Effective classroom management

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 20th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

Tuesday 26th March 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

Effective classroom management is integral to creating the

environment for learning to take place. This session will

focus on providing strategies to stop low-level disruption

developing, approaches to dealing with it when it does, as

well as tips and tricks to make sure that you are always in

charge of your classroom space.

Support for Learning

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Using the Learning Centre to support

learners

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 5th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm,

Learning Support Centre

The college's Learning Centre encompasses the Learning

Resource Centre, Learning Support Centre, and Open

Learning Centre. This session will provide an outline of the

wide variety of support available to students and teachers

from these areas.

UCAS: subject reference writing

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 7th May 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

This session will review how colleagues can successfully

complete subject references for the students they have

taught. What are the most relevant elements to offer, what

does an effective subject reference look like, and what are

the pit-falls to avoid?

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Creating a rights respective environment

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 4th December 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS15

What are human rights? How can human rights education

help our students? This session is designed to look at all things human rights related with a focus on creating a

rights respecting environment in which everyone is able to learn, question and flourish.

How to use ALPs to make focussed

interventions

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 12th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

Alps is a data analysis tool that allows teachers and leaders

to recognise underperformance from students, set appropriate targets, and focus interventions on the

students that need it the most. This session will focus on how such interventions can be recognised and then designed. It is a session designed for all teachers.

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Celebrating diversity and promoting

equality

Date Time and Room

Thursday 31st January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS16

Thursday 2nd May 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS16

The promotion of equality of opportunity and celebration of the diversity apparent in Modern Britain is the focus of this

session. It will seek to provide practical ways that such ideas can be promoted in our lessons.

Delivery, design, and response to

questions with impact

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 11th December 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS15

Thursday 21st March 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS15

This session focusses on the intricacies of how questions are delivered to individuals and groups, the extent to which students are given time to think, and how we can

bounce responses around a room. We will look at higher order Blooms’ style questions, questions that demand self-

reflection rather than just being used as an assessment tool, and how we can response to ‘I don’t know’.

Teaching Strategies

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Developing students' oral communication

Date Time and Room

Thursday 13th December 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CN10

The ability to communicate clearly, in engaging ways, and

persuasive ways are crucial skills to equip our learners with,

if they are to be successful members of modern Britain. This

session will focus on the techniques we can all use in our

classrooms to develop these skills.

Developing opportunities to promote

British Values in lessons

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 22nd January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS10

This session promotes strategies and techniques to ensure

that the promotion of British Values are incorporated at

any given opportunity. Regardless of the subject you

teach, this session will offer immediate ideas for how

British Values can be discussed, debated, and promoted

amongst our learners.

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Maximising the impact of feedback you

provide to learners

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 11th December 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

Thursday 14th March 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

A wide variety of studies put the feedback teachers

provide to their learners as having some of the highest

impact on progress that student can then make. This

session will review the variety of approaches available

when offering feedback, and offer some immediately

usable strategies for you when working with your

students.

Improving students' independent work

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 13th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.0.14

Tuesday 26th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.0.14

This session will focus on strategies to improve students’

ability to work independently outside of lessons, on

homework, and when revising for MAPs and final exams.

Please do bring along any current examples of good

practice you currently use.

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Promoting Literacy in Lessons

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 29th January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CN09

Literacy is a key skill for improving learners’ potential. This

session will suggest usable techniques to help incorporate

literacy into your lessons and encourage learners to read

independently.

Planning for the needs of all learners

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 27th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.0.12

Tuesday 19th March 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.0.12

This session will focus on sharing ideas to effectively

scaffold lessons, ensuring that every student makes good

progress. It will cover the importance of knowing your

class, sharing success criteria, and differentiated

questioning techniques. This session is aimed at how to

plan lessons to meet the needs of all learners, with a focus

specifically on essay based subjects.

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Strategies to increase student

vocabulary

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 29th January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CN10

This session addresses a hot topic in education: the word

gap, that is the difference in vocabulary size between the

most and least advantaged students. How can we explicitly

teach vocabulary? What software packages are available to

allow students to independently address this gap? How can

we sensitively check for vocabulary gaps in our daily

practice?

Promoting Maths in Lessons

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 22nd January 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 2CS13

The promotion of Maths at every practical opportunity is a

responsibility all teachers have. This session will provide

some examples for how every lesson can integrate Maths

into the learning experiences our students take part in.

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Microsoft Office: effective use of this

Package

Date Time and Room

Thursday 31st January 4.15 - 5.15pm, 2CS03 (IT suite)

This session will focus on the powerful Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), and how this

software can support teaching and learning, as well as the other tasks teachers and non-teachers are required to

complete. Colleagues will be asked to send their specific areas of focus to the facilitator before the session begins.

Technology in Teaching: sharing

effective practice

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 12th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS04

This session asks colleagues to bring examples of effective uses of technology in their classrooms, and provides a

forum to share how specific uses of technology has supported the progress made by students. Teachers will all

leave with examples of effective practice that they can then experiment with in their own classrooms.

Technology in Teaching

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Google Classroom: a guide to this

powerful tool

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 11th December 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, Red Room

Thursday 28th March 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

In a very short period of time, Google Classroom has

revolutionised the approaches to planning, assessment,

and student engagement within and outside of our

classrooms. This session is pitched at colleagues who

would like to find out more about what Google Classroom

can do, receive some examples of it in action, and provide

a chance to experiment with the wide variety of uses it

has.

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Supporting learners with a hearing

impairment

Date Time and Room

Thursday 22nd November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS04

This session will give an overview of the different types of

hearing impairment and the impact they can have on learning. There will be a focus on the specific types of

impairment of students we have in College and how we can effectively meet their needs.

Maximising inclusivity in the classroom

Date Time and Room

Tuesday 20th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS04

This session is focussed on ensuring that all learners in the

groups you teach have equal access to the educational

opportunities provided. Our college is nationally recognised

for the approach to maximising inclusivity, and this session

outlines how this can be maintained in our classrooms.

Inclusive Learning

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Supporting learners with a visual

impairment

Date Time and Room

Thursday 15th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS05

This session will explore types of visual impairment and the impact they can have on learning. There will be a focus on

the specific types of impairment of students we have in college and how we can effectively meet their needs.

Supporting learners with autism

Date Time and Room

Thursday 15th November 2018 4.15 - 5.15pm, 1CS04

Understanding the perspectives of a learner who has

Autism and how this impacts on their learning is crucial in supporting them effectively during the learning process. This session helps to give an insight into what it is like to

have Autism and how to support Autistic learners effectively both academically and pastorally whilst they are

in College.

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Adult Learning Adult Learning run a programme of Wednesday sessions. Staff from across the college are welcome to participate.

The first sessions in the programme are listed below. For

more information please contact Anna Richards, arichards@jcc.ac.uk

Effective Exam Preparation Wednesday 14th November 2018, 4.00 – 5.00pm,

Moseley Road Adult Centre

Examining effective short and long-term strategies to

prepare learners for exams.

ESOL teaching for non-ESOL learners Wednesday 21st November 2018, 4.00 – 5.00pm,

Moseley Road Adult Centre

A session which introduces strategies to develop speaking,

reading and writing skills for ESOL learners (English for

Speakers of Other Languages) in vocational, English and

Maths lessons.

Recognising and addressing additional

needs in the classroom Wednesday 28th November 2018, 4.00 – 5.00pm,

Moseley Road Adult Centre

Initial strategies to recognise and then address a variety of

learner needs.

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Delivering Higher Education (HE) The College will run series of HE development sessions for

colleagues new to delivering at this level. These will include:

• HE terminology • The HE Ethos

• Understanding the quality code • Programme planning and design

• HE pedagogy • Research methods

• Assessment and marking • Working with HE peers • Benchmarking

• Self-evaluation and enhancement • Understanding and preparing for a Quality Review

Visit (QRV) • Student engagement strategies

• Collaborating with higher education institutions (HEIs)

• HE Peer Observation

• Strategies For Developing and Embedding Learners Independence

• Scholarly Activity • Understanding Level 4 and 5, Stretch and Challenge

Activities for Higher Level Learners • Examining Body Regulations and Expectation

• Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Learners • Delivering HE in FE (Education & Training

Foundation CPD package)

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Leadership Programme

The Aspiring Leaders’ Programme is for staff who may be

looking for the first role in leadership, or have an interest in understanding leadership in further education. Some

staff may have found they have applied for leadership roles but have been unsuccessful because they do not have the knowledge or awareness of the broader context

of further education. This programme will support aspiring leaders and bridge the knowledge gaps between teacher

and teacher/leader.

The aims of the programme are: o To develop aspiring leaders’ awareness of what

makes outstanding leadership

o To explore leadership styles o To develop an awareness of the leadership in a

further education context o To explore key information used by leaders in further

education

o To build leadership skills

Part A: Aspiring Leaders

Outstanding Leaders Leadership Styles

The Further Education Context Key Data Leadership Skills in Practice

Start date: Thursday 11th October 2018

Each session will be 4.30pm-6.30pm on a Thursday. Participants must commit to all sessions and times.

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Part B: Developing Leaders Leading a team

Performance management Having a difficult conversation Improvement strategies in education

Improvement planning Shadowing (2 sessions)

Start date: Thursday 31st January 2019 Each session will be 4.30pm-6.30pm on a

Thursday. Participants must commit to all sessions and times.

Participants of Part B will need to have completed Part A: Aspiring Leaders or demonstrate acquired prior

experience or learning (APEL). APEL can be applied to individual modules, where applicable.

To take part in Part A or Part B contact Jessica, JAdams@jcc.ac.uk

Open to curriculum and non-curriculum aspiring leaders.

These sessions are offered as a benefit to enhance teacher’s career progression and as such will not contribute to the required 5 hours Twilight Training for

time off in lieu.

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Developing Subject Expertise (DSE) This initiative continues to allow teachers and support staff to work collaboratively on specified areas with the aim of improving students’ experience and outcomes.

Supported by the comprehensive research project conducted by the Teachers’ Trust and framed against the Department for Education Standards for Teachers’ Professional

Development these projects will support the wide range of collaborative development colleagues have enjoyed success from recently.

October Launch

December Review

February Review

April Review

End of Year Review

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Consistently Outstanding

Date Time and Room

Part 1: Tuesday 5th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

Part 2: Tuesday 12th February 2019 4.15 - 5.15pm, OH.1.13

A package of support to provide practical guidance on

how to make teaching and learning consistently outstanding.

Access to Outstanding elements of practice through case studies, working with peers, and self-review.

Dependent on needs of participants, session may include: A checklist of possible outstanding teaching ingredients

Ideas to differentiate for various groups of learners Effective planning for students with additional learning

needs

Stretching the most able students Sharing techniques to engage and motivate students

Ways of creating independent and resilient learners Making assessment, collaboration and peer review

central to progress in learning

How information learning technology can make an impact on learning

Sharing success criteria in meaningful ways Embedding literacy and numeracy into every lesson

Participating teachers will also access outstanding elements of practice as case studies and work with a group of peers

to make changes to their practice – with a focus on self-review throughout.

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Job Shadowing

Gaining a New Perspective

Job shadowing is where an individual from one area

of the organisation has the opportunity to work

alongside and gain experience of the role of another

individual, and gain an insight into that particular

work area. It can also be used to provide an

individual within a department the opportunity to

work alongside more experienced colleagues so they

can learn and develop within their current role.

Additionally, shadowing of leaders can support

colleagues in understanding these roles to help

prepare individuals for future roles.

Shadowing is a module of Aspiring Leaders Part B –

Applying Leadership Skills. Both full time and part

time staff are welcome to apply for job shadowing

opportunities.

Please contact Jessica, JAdams@jcc.ac.uk for more

details.

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Cylix online training Certain professional development activities are a

mandatory requirement of working at the College. Mandatory training needs to be refreshed on a periodical

basis to ensure staff are fully up to date with these topics. Safeguarding Essentials

Creating a positive environment for children and vulnerable adults, and looking out for their welfare, is everyone’s

responsibility. In this course, you will find out what safeguarding means and what you can do to help protect the health and well-being of children and vulnerable adults.

Equality & Diversity Briefing

Treating everyone fairly is not just a good thing to do: it is the law. This course provides you with a practical understanding of equality & diversity, and your rights and

responsibilities under the law.

Data Protection Briefing If you handle personal information as part of your job, it is essential that you comply with the Data Protection Act. In

this course, you will find out what the Act says and what you need to do to meet your legal responsibilities.

Health and safety

Packed with sophisticated interactive exercises, discovery learning laboratories and advanced animations, Health & Safety Essentials is far more than just another health and

safety course: it's a fully featured learning resource that builds an in-depth understanding of key health and safety

issues, and the practical steps that can be taken to counter them.

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Prevent online training This online Prevent duty awareness training explains the main

points of the Prevent duty and the measures that schools and

childcare providers must take in order to comply with it.

Examples and scenarios will make you aware of the indicators

that a child may be vulnerable to radicalisation and what to

do if you believe a child is at risk.

MindEd online training https://www.minded.org.uk/ Course: Mental Health and Well-Being in Adolescence

Adolescence is the stage at which many mental health

problems begin to develop. This session describes some of

the basic concepts of emotional well-being in young people

and the epidemiology of some common mental health

problems at this age. It also describes the organisation of

adolescent mental health services in England and Wales and

their relationship to primary care and paediatric services.

Some related problems, such as self-harm and substance

misuse, are dealt with in other modules.

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Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) Programme Facilitated by Richard Bourne, Advanced Skills Practitioner, and key specialists. This programme is for the development of NQTs and trainee teachers on placement at the College and it is mandatory for them to attend. Sessions are aimed at developing and

building upon learning and teaching skills through delivered sessions and seminars. Application and review sessions will also provide time for the completion of applications

for Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) and discussion of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) progress.

These sessions may also be suitable to teachers who are new to the College in order to enhance their understanding of College priorities for learning and teaching. Other staff are

welcome to attend.

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Business Support Areas The development needs of the College’s Support Areas differ significantly from each other since the nature of

each of their functions is very different.

The College policy identifies that support staff should aim to undertake around 20 hours of professional development per year. Professional development could

include:

• Internal sessions

• Qualifications

• Short courses

• Conferences

• Actively participating in a training event

• Industrial updating

• Sharing practice with colleagues

• Membership meetings of an appropriate professional

body

• Academic/independent research

• Leadership Skills Programme

Benchmarking and Excellence

The Effective Leader

Difficult Conversations

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Staff Induction

A programme of Twilight Training is provided for all

new staff. The input sessions are run in the first half term with review sessions scheduled at points

throughout the academic year.

Each attendance at Twilight Training (4.30pm to 5.30pm) attracts 1 hour of Time Off in Lieu (TOIL);

(CPD TOIL for teaching staff).

Tuesday 2nd October, Orchard House OH.1.13

4.30pm - 5.30pm

WRAP Training (Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent)

GROUP A

David Blower, Assistant Principal (Students and

Operations)

Tuesday 9th October, Orchard House OH.1.13

4.30pm - 5.30pm

WRAP Training (Workshop to Raise

Awareness of Prevent)

GROUP B

David Blower, Assistant Principal

(Students and Operations)

Thursday 18th October, Orchard House OH.1.13

4.30pm - 5.30pm

Understanding ALPS for Academic and Vocational GROUP A

Helen Cordell-Graham, Interim Director of Studies

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Tuesday 23rd October, Orchard House OH.1.13

4.30pm - 5.30pm

Understanding ALPS for Academic and Vocational

GROUP B

Helen Cordell-Graham, Interim

Director of Studies

Tuesday 6th November, Dance Studio

4.30pm - 5.30pm

Promoting British Values at JCC

All

Elly Tobin, Principal

Thursday 20th December, Dance Studio

09.30am-

12.00pm

Reviewing Term 1 at JCC

All

Tom Williams,

Learning Leader (Wider Learning)

Thursday 4th April, Dance Studio

4.30pm -

5.30pm

Reviewing Term 2 at JCC

All

Tom Williams,

Learning Leader (Wider Learning)

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Raising Aspirations South Network Birmingham

South Network Birmingham

The College is pleased to be part of the South Network

Birmingham, a collection of 17 schools with the College

representing further education. The Network provides

collaborative support and co-operation especially around

professional development. A number of staff also

contribute to the Network committees so that we can

ensure we are involved in any opportunities that may

arise.

Each year the Network hold a professional development

afternoon. This year the afternoon will be on

Wednesday 6th February 2019. Once again, staff

from the college will be delivering a range of sessions as

part of the development afternoon and teaching and

support staff are invited to attend any of more than 50

sessions on offer subject to suitability and availability.

The full schedule of available sessions and descriptions

of each will be made available on JCC Connect once

released. Please speak to your line manager about

attendance.

The College welcomes staff from partner

schools and alliances to take part in its

CPD programme. For more information,

contact Jessica Adams Jadams@jcc.ac.uk

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Raising Aspirations Bishop Challoner Teaching School Alliance

Bishop Challoner Teaching

School Alliance www.bctsa.org

The College is pleased to be part of the Bishop Challoner Teaching School Alliance (BCTSA). The BCTSA is a

partnership of over 40 partner schools – primary, secondary and special. BCTSA work together to provide high quality CPD and a wide range of School-to-School

Support Services across the Central Midlands.

A directory that outlines the Leadership Development and CPD programmes for the year 2018/19 will be made available on JCC Connect once released. Please speak to

your line manager about attendance.

Opportunities include:

Access to national professional qualifications in

leadership

Aspiring leaders programme

Programmes for Newly and Recently Qualified

Teachers

Subject specific programmes

Subject specific support from Specialist Leaders of

Education

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