Smart Marking & Feedback Strategies
High-impact feedback helps pupils make rapid progress while reducing teacher workload. This INSET provides practical marking and feedback strategies rooted in research, enabling staff to give actionable, efficient and meaningful feedback. Participants explore live marking, whole-class feedback, verbal response strategies and systems that improve pupil outcomes without unnecessary marking demands. This course supports schools to streamline workload and strengthen the impact of feedback across subjects.
Assessment Strategies: The Bridge between Teaching & Learning
Assessment is most powerful when it directly informs teaching and supports learners in understanding their next steps. This INSET explores strategies for responsive teaching, diagnostic assessment, effective questioning and clarity of learning intentions. Participants learn to use assessment data purposefully, adapt instruction in real time and close learning gaps with precision. This course helps teachers build a stronger link between instructional decisions and pupil progress.
Embedding Formative Assessment
Formative assessment improves learning when embedded consistently in everyday practice. This INSET equips teachers with practical routines such as hinge questions, exit tasks, success criteria, modelling and peer or self assessment. Participants explore how to create a culture of feedback, encourage metacognitive reflection and support learners to articulate their understanding. This course strengthens classroom practice and deepens pupil learning across all subjects.
Raising Boys' Achievement & Engagement
Boys often underperform relative to their potential and closing this gap requires targeted strategies. This INSET explores motivation, engagement, behaviour influences and approaches that promote improved literacy, resilience and learning habits. Participants learn research-informed strategies to raise expectations, adapt teaching methods and support boys to take greater ownership of their progress. This course empowers staff to improve outcomes for boys across key stages.
Improving Learning Retention to Raise GCSE Achievement
Strong long-term retention is essential for GCSE success. This INSET introduces evidence-informed strategies such as retrieval practice, spaced learning, dual coding and interleaving to improve memory and deepen understanding. Participants explore how to design lessons that maximise recall and strengthen the transfer of knowledge into exam performance. This course helps schools raise attainment through improved teaching practice informed by cognitive science.
