Transforming Teaching

Drive improvements across your whole school through measurable, sustainable change to teaching, learning and professional development.

  • Training for senior leaders, middle leaders and classroom staff
  • Gain the skills to design and deliver professional development
  • Learn from our expert teacher educators
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Why us?

What is the Transforming Teaching programme?
This one year whole-school transformation programme empowers your school or trust with the necessary tools to drive sustainable and measurable changes to teaching, learning and professional development. Transforming Teaching is unique as it offers tailored options to ensure you receive the professional development that is most suited to your context.

All training is delivered in a hybrid model. Training is provided across all levels: classroom teachers, middle leaders and senior leaders, to ensure that everyone learns together. Lastly, Ambition’s training leads will work with your school to understand your context and help diagnose highest leverage areas of focus.

New tailored options

We have now introduced real flexibility and will work with you to ensure the right members of staff are involved and the training frequency and schedule suits your school’s needs:

> The full programme can provide training for all of your senior leadership team, up to four teacher educators and up to 30 high impact classroom teachers.

> The cost of the programme ranges from £17,500 to £24,200. Please completethis form for more information.

Improving teaching and learning

This programme is for you if you want to:
> Improve teaching and learning across your school or trust

> Build internal CPD capacity, including training your teacher educators in instructional coaching

> Develop a systematic and measurable approach to implementing improvements to teaching and learning

Make sustainable change

> Develop teams of teachers and teacher educators with the tools needed for lasting change.

> We will help you develop capacity for the future, so you can improve CPD, teaching and learning, retention, progression opportunities, and ultimately, pupil outcomes.

A unique approach

> We always start with a school-visit to discuss the aims and structure of programme and expectations.

> In-depth support is provided through the year so you get frequent and comprehensive inputs.

> The programme has a core research-based curriculum combined with the option of one-to-one individual support that can be customised to meet the needs of your teacher educators.

> Ambition’s training leads will work with your school to understand your context and help diagnose your highest leverage areas of focus.

Diagnostic tool

We provide access to an online diagnostic survey for your teachers and senior leaders to aid decision-making around which programme content works best for your school or trust.

The survey focuses around teachers’ views on behaviour, instructional practices, pupil learning, and responsive teaching.

Using the results from this all-staff survey, Ambition generate a unique diagnostic report that reveals key areas of strength and areas for development, sharing these with your school leaders to help tailor your programme experience around the highest leverage areas of focus.

Develop and retain staff

> Improve classroom teaching and learning across your school or trust.
> Improve retention by developing your staff in a meaningful way.
> Enrich your CPD offer for existing and future staff.

Curriculum

What you’ll learn

Transforming Teaching has three strands:

  1. Senior Leader strand – Senior Leaders will lead and enable the conditions for improvement.
  2. Teacher Educator strand – on-the ground leaders will plan, support and oversee improvement.
  3. High Impact Teacher strand – classroom teachers can enact change and implement improvement.

Senior Leader strand
This strand leads participants through the implementation process described in the Education Endowment Fund guide Putting Evidence to Work by Jonathan Sharples.
Senior leaders are supported by our experienced training leads to identify the most important development needs for the school. This is based on the school’s unique diagnostic report, symptoms that leaders observe in classrooms, and through triangulation of wider evidence. They are supported to choose a professional development response to roll out across the school or trust. Leaders are guided through the exploration, preparation, development and sustaining stages of an implementation.

Teacher Educator strand
This strand leads participants through the evidence-informed tools and knowledge required for high quality teacher education. It is delivered by our expert training leads through a mixture of one-to-one coaching and facilitated development days, to develop and improve their ability to design and deliver professional development in school.

High Impact Teacher strand
This strand provides support with core elements of teachers’ pedagogical practices such as classroom culture, routines for learning, motivation, modelling, consolidation, and others.

How you’ll learn

Senior Leaders
> Six 90 min training sessions delivered by our training leads to support senior leaders to embed learning across the school.
> Support to effectively design, implement, and audit a sustainable school improvement plan.

Teacher Educators
> Training on the evidence-informed tools and knowledge required for the design and delivery of high-quality professional development, delivered by our expert training leads through six development days.
> Bespoke support to develop practice as a teacher educator.
> One-to-one coaching*

High Impact Teachers
> 12 facilitated twilight sessions

*coaching is recommended but optional
Programme content subject to change.

Testimonials

“The Transforming Teaching Programme has made a significant difference to all of the staff and students. Our teachers are more consciously competent practitioners in their classrooms with a good understanding of how students learn and what has the biggest impact on their students. Our teachers are more engaged in the latest educational research and most importantly, they can then apply this to the learning of the students in their classrooms."
Carene Spooner, Assistant Headteacher at Kinver High School

The programme helped us to completely shift our culture. Ofsted picked up on that and commented that − ‘Everyone loves to learn at Pennyhill Primary School’,” says Michelle. “Our school and staff are now confident, empowered and enlightened. Walk into the staffroom and you’ll overhear them talking about current research or retrieval practices and sharing what they’ve found works best in the classroom. They’re excited about teaching.

“And that filters through to the children. We’ve developed a climate for learning in which the children know it's okay to make mistakes. They’re confident now, and they’ve bought into learning. They can talk not only about what they’re learning, but how they’re learning.
Michelle Williams Deputy Headteacher, Pennyhill Primary School

Cost

We can now offer tailored options to ensure you receive the professional development that is most suited to your context.

This programme is your CPD investment for the year, with up to 40 staff across SLT, middle leadership and classroom teaching involved at all stages.

To discuss this programme further with one of our expert team, please complete this form.

Enquire

We work with schools and trusts to provide one powerful professional development solution to the many challenges you face.

Who is this programme designed for?
This programme is for your school if you want to:
> Improve the effectiveness and consistency of your teaching and learning.
> Retain your teaching staff and grow the professional development and career development offer for staff.
> Demonstrate measurable action and improvement in areas such as teaching and learning, leadership effectiveness and teacher training and development.
> Improve learning for all pupils. Receive high quality training and support, using evidence-informed practices delivered by expert training leads.

What steps should I take to inquire further about the programme or ask specific questions?
Please fill out this enquiry form for further information about how this programme can work in your school or trust.

Programme content subject to change.

Interested in the programme?