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Leading on more able - On-demand CPD | NACE

Leading and embedding more able policy
and provision in your school

Modular on-demand CPD



What?

  • A comprehensive introduction to the key actions and considerations involved in developing and embedding a school-wide approach to policy and provision for more able learners
  • Learn what effective more able leadership looks like through exploration of policy, pedagogy, curriculum and professional development
  • Integrated route map for planning and development (if completing the full set)
  • Useful introduction to and/or recap of key topics (pick and choose the relevant modules)
  • Understand the current evidence and research underpinning suggested practice, including NACE’s own school- and classroom-based investigations

How?

  • Seven online modules, available individually or as a set with supporting resources, checklists and templates
  • 40- to 60-minute recorded CPD sessions delivered by expert practitioners
  • Accompanying resources to support participants in moving to practical application in school
  • All modules (with the exception of module 7, which focuses on coaching) are available in targeted primary and secondary versions, using phase-specific exemplification
  • Designed to complement in-house provision
  • Accessed via online platform Nucleus Learning: easy access, bitesize sessions to fit with school demands, teacher workload and wellbeing
  • For those who want to continue their development through peer networking and support, we offer a half-termly More Able Leads Network Group


Programme overview

Module
     Content
     Supporting resources
Cost*

1. Getting started: the role of the more able lead
  • Understanding the needs of more able learners
  • Understanding your role as more able lead
  • Developing and reviewing your more able policy
  • School policy guidance
  • How to review policy’s impact
  • School review checklist
  • Learning walk recording sheet
  • General characteristics
  • Characteristics by subject
  • Subject leader’s role
Members: £75
Non-members: £125
6 month licence

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2. Identification of more able learners
  • Strategies for the identification of more able learners
  • Definitions in relation to more able learners/the more able agenda
  • The role of data in identification
  • General characteristics
  • Characteristics by subject
Members: £75
Non-members: £125
6 month licence

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3. Planning for challenge
  • What is cognitive challenge?
  • What does current research mean for more able learners?
  • Applying current research in the classroom for more able learners
  • Understand how to plan for and provide high-quality challenge
  • Learning walk recording sheet
  • What makes a task challenging?
  • Provision for more able in maths
  • Provision for more able in English
Members: £75
Non-members: £125
6 month licence

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4. Independent learning and more able learners
  • Explore how and why independent learning should be developed and encouraged
  • Explore the development of a school's challenge culture
  • Developing challenge beyond the classroom
  • School review checklist
  • What makes a task challenging?
Members: £75
Non-members: £125
6 month licence

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5. Curriculum review (part 1) – exclusively for NACE members
  • Using the NACE Curriculum Audit© to plan and audit curriculum intent beyond the classroom
  • Understanding the more able leader’s role in the development and review process
  • Further exploring your role in leading others within your school
  • NACE Curriculum Audit©
  • School review checklist
  • Subject leader’s role
£75 (NACE members only)
6 month licence

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6. Curriculum review (part 2)
– exclusively for NACE members
  • Review and evaluate your provision for more able learners
  • Using the NACE Curriculum Audit© to review, evaluate and further develop curriculum implementation and impact
  • Identify and plan for next steps
  • NACE Curriculum Audit©
  • School review checklist
  • Learning walk recording sheet
  • Subject leader’s role
£75 (NACE members only)
6 month licence

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7. The potential of coaching to enhance your effectiveness as a more able lead
  • Understanding the basic theory of coaching
  • Essential coaching skills and how to use them
  • The language of coaching that can have an impact – framing effective questions
  • Practical ways you can coach that lead to change – how ‘nudge’ can help you
  • Coaching questions
  • How strong is your school’s coaching culture?
Members: £75
Non-members: £125
6 month licence

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Bundle: all seven modules
– exclusively for NACE members
All of the above (choose either primary or secondary focus). Can be used to support individual, departmental and/or whole-school CPD.
    All of the above.
£450 (members only)
18 month licence

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*All prices +VAT. Multiple logins can be provided for staff within the same school to access purchased modules individually. Module recordings and resources can also be displayed on a shared screen to support group CPD.



Why NACE?

  • Our programmes are underpinned by 40 years’ expertise in the field of more able policy, provision and research-informed practice,
    including our own published research
  • Our extensive school links provide access to some of the most up-to-the-minute examples of effective school practice
  • NACE trainers are experienced practitioners, school leaders, advisers and coaches.

We paused very regularly to discuss points and the material. It prompted a lot of discussion […] We have three points we are taking to use straight away in class which will benefit all children with slight adaptations to our delivery.

Rebecca Manning, Headteacher,
St. George's CE Academy, Shropshire


Additional support

NACE membership – available for schools, ITT providers, MATs, alliances and clusters – offers ongoing support for all leadership and teaching staff through access to an extensive library of online resources, recorded webinars, research and events. Learn more.

To help you apply your learning, additional 1-2-1 guidance and support is available through our coaching and mentoring or Ask NACE services.

Plus: for ongoing peer-led CPD and support, join our More Able Leads Network Group – meeting online every half-term to share challenges, experiences and ideas. Find the next session in our events calendar.


A really thoughtful and practical guide to help staff responsible for more able provision across a department or school.
A good mix of a theoretical background and practical, hands-on tips, which allow you to think in the here and now about your own context and how these ideals – and then ideas – can be applied.
Gave me many new ideas to think about and explained MA policy as integral to a whole culture within the school and not a bolt-on.

- participants in webinar for More Able Leads, March 2021




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