NPQH Practice Activities: Leading Teaching Cycle 3 Practice Activities Select three of the following nine activities to submit to your leadership coach. Choose activities based on your areas of interest and the results of the initial needs analysis undertaken at the start of the course.
Teaching Activity 1: Monitoring curriculum planning and delivery As part of his strategy to ensure curriculum planning at Up Holland School demonstrated effective pedagogy (building on prior knowledge, use of retrieval and spaced practice, teaching new content in small steps), Paul Scarborough instituted teaching audits by senior leaders, faculty reviews and observations. Meet with senior leaders in your school to discuss the current approach to monitoring the planning and delivery of the intended curriculum. Does this approach provide the opportunity to evaluate the planned curriculum’s inclusion of retrieval and spaced practice to build automatic recall of important knowledge and interleaving of concrete and abstract examples? Draft a plan to refine the current process for monitoring the planning and delivery of the intended curriculum to improve the focus on effective pedagogy, use of spaced practice and interleaving of concrete and abstract examples.
Submission Write a 250-word (maximum) summary of your actions and learning from this task and submit to your leadership coach.
Resource Practice piece: Paul Scarborough, headteacher at Up Holland High School
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