Professional development for teachers and leaders
Bruce offers bespoke professional development for teachers and leaders in both primary and secondary sectors. Input can be delivered as a standalone session or as a series of sessions, in-person, online or as a hybrid. Themes can be tailored to suit the needs of your school.
A brochure of example offers is available here.
For Teachers
Build a shared understanding of what makes great teaching across your school or team, including practical strategies that can support every teacher.
Pedagogical Principles
Key messages from cognitive science and educational research about approaches that are most likely to be the most effective at particular times, and why.
Trusted Techniques
Practical approaches that teachers can focus on building into their teaching repertoire or getting even better at, linked to specific pedagogical themes.
Specific Themes
Questioning, feedback, learning intentions, success criteria, presentations, practice, adaptive teaching, retrieval practice, behaviour management… and more.
For Leaders
Explore generic principles and specific initiatives that can help transform leadership of teaching and learning across your team or school, at both middle and senior levels.
Leadership Principles
Enhance the leadership of middle and senior leaders across your school by exploring foundational leadership principles and building robust ‘leadership schema’.
Leading teaching and learning
Develop middle and senior leader’s understanding of ‘teaching-centred leadership’, with a focus on how principles can be applied in practice in any context.
Overcoming barriers and evidencing impact
Explore reasons why professional development often fails to have impact and how these can be overcome, with a focus on coaching approaches.
