Professional Development and Consultancy
Fully tailored Professional Development and Consultancy Services for Primary and Secondary teachers to support, improve and inspire their Music offerings.
Primary
&
Secondary
Professional Development
Changing the way we think:
Extending thinking
This workshop delves into the power of questioning to open a students' mind to learn, work and think in a different way. Teaching students' skills to have autonomy over their progress and take responsibility to accelerate and improve outcomes.Developing a growth mindset and critical thinking to allow students the opportunity to truly flourish.
Creativity in the classroom
This training shares practical tips that can be applied across different curriculum areas to stimulate creativity in the classroom. Creativity is becoming an increasingly desirable skill that not only external bodies are looking for, but also future employers are seeking too. Successful creative thinking allows students to connect new information to their prior knowledge, whilst taking ownership and improving their abilities to problem solve. This workshop is designed to showcase a variety of tips, tricks and methods to enhance creativity in the classroom.
Both workshops are suitable for Primary and Secondary settings.
Primary
Consultancy
Teaching Music in the Primary Classroom
This service delivers fully tailored training to Primary School teachers, taking into account your curriculum restrains, requirements and resources, to enhance the music offering within your school. Full of practical ideas and demonstrations to inspire and equip your teachers with the tools required for delivering high quality music lessons through the year.
This training is flexible; it could be offered as a one-off workshop, to small groups or whole school, or as part of a longer term improvement plan.
Service Name
Secondary
Consultancy
Music GCSE support
Teacher support
Music GCSE support
Having never had a student achieve a grade lower than a C / 5, this service reviews your current GCSE offering; working hands on with teachers to review their current course structure, highlight any flaws and work together to create an improvement plan. Through observations, book-looks and coursework analysis, every aspect of the course can be evaluated to improve student outcomes. All exam boards covered.
Teacher support
Whether there are serious concerns about teaching capabilities or a teacher has simply lost their way, this service focusses on the pedagogical approach to teaching music. Tailored to meet your needs as a school - from enhancing Extra-Curricula offering, teacher development or improving one's GCSE results, a practical, hands-on approach is taken to guarantee maximum support. This support can be offered on a 1-1 basis or at department level.
KB, Deputy Head
Secondary, Northampton
When seeking consultancy support for our one-person music department we were recommended Laura. We first commissioned Laura to offer leadership support as well as the huge challenge of improving the quality of education in the department to safeguard our GCSE student outcomes. On first meeting Laura I was filled with confidence as she very quickly and accurately identified key priorities for improvement and mapped out a very clear action plan, coupled with a wealth of support materials. Laura’s leadership style is centred around high challenge and high support meaning that despite the very tight deadline for improvement all actions felt manageable.
Laura provided directional coaching and modelled effective leadership, and was clearly very committed to driving improvement. The best part for me was Laura’s willingness to roll up her sleeves and work directly with our students. Despite only having just met our students Laura was able to create a safe and purposeful learning environment for all, where high expectations underpinned every aspect of her teaching. Our students accepted these expectations readily and soon come to enjoy the security afforded by such boundaries.
Laura is undoubtedly a very gifted teacher whose passion for music is quite simply infectious. Laura’s diligent planning allowed for key learning objectives to be clearly illuminated to our students, enabling their learning journey to be readily accessible to them. Her resources are thoughtfully produced in order to engage students in exciting and meaningful learning experiences. As a result of Laura’s interventions our students made accelerated progress which was supported by detailed, informative and encouraging feedback.
RRW, Head of Performing Arts
Secondary, Birmingham
I was head of a vibrant performing arts faculty in a large city comprehensive school when Laura arrived on placement as part of her PGCSE. Immediately, I was struck by her love of her subject and her passion for music education. I remember the firs time I popped into one of her lessons: the atmosphere was electric. Every one of the 30 teenagers were engaged in making music and happy. Laura joined our team the following year and transformed our faculty into a place of intense musical activity where children loved to spend time singing and playing together. In turn, this transformed the lives of many youngsters as they discovered their love for creativity and music making.
RC, Head Teacher
Primary, Hanoi
Laura was the head of Performing Arts at the British International school, Hanoi. Over her four years in post Laura showed she was a passionate practitioner who inspired children in the classroom. Not only an accomplished musician, she sparked a love of music in those in her care through fun and engaging lessons. Students loved her dynamic approach to teaching and learning music and the performing arts. During her time in Hanoi Laura taught extensively across the Primary phase planning engaging lessons where children collaborated, were creative and took risks. In addition to this she led choirs, productions, musical performances and live lunches for student of all ages.
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