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Oakfield Academy aims to create a learning environment where we can inspire pupils to believe in their abilities and to achieve their full academic potential, no matter what a pupil’s starting point may be.
We aim to explore all possibilities in a pupil’s learning diet to ensure they leave with the skills to succeed in all future endeavours both academically and socially. Learning is a lifelong skill, something that informs and reforms people’s lives and we model to our pupils through lessons activities, extra-curricular opportunities and the wider school community that they should be ‘Proud to Learn’ and demonstrate that in all they do. Effort, determination and resilience lead to positive outcomes for pupils and we use these learning ethics to deliver a strong curriculum here at the academy.
Our staff regularly take part in professionally developing themselves through in-house training, visiting other establishments or creating their very own classroom-based research projects. This again models to pupils that even teachers will want to improve their own learning to help facilitate the needs of their pupils.
We have a designated Teaching and Learning Twitter feed (@Oakfield_TandL) where staff continually exhibit the fantastic methods of learning across the academy to show that learning can happen through any number of tasks and activities.
Teaching and Learning - Documents
Subject Teaching and Learning Portfolios/Examples
Our staff regularly take part in professionally developing themselves through in-house training, visiting other establishments or creating their very own classroom-based research projects. This again models to pupils that even teachers will want to improve their own learning to help facilitate the needs of their pupils.
We have a dedicated Teaching and Learning Twitter feed (@Oakfield_TandL) where staff continually exhibit the fantastic methods of learning across the academy to show that learning can happen through any number of tasks and activities.
Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better. Dylan Wiliam 2012
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together Arthur Eddington
Do we really know nothing until we know everything? Robert Slavin
Staff CPD Library
Add in the CPD books and journals you may have read using this link, as well as your own 5 word reviews about the books/journals. Space for 5 reviews for each book. It will pick up the usefulness of the CPD based on the words used, very clever!!!! Do include your initials on the reviews
Staff CPD Focus of the Week
Staff CPD Focus: SEND in Action
So the links below have a variety of themes that all feed into how SEND in Action can support pupils across the academy and into the wider community. There are also some great people and organisations to follow on twitter that support those areas of SEND in education;
- SENsible SENCO: A series of videos around supporting pupils with SEND needs
- SEN Resource Blog: Advice, learning activities and recommended reading around all areas of SEND provision in schools
We have also added to the CPD groups underneath with some more journal articles and important blogs from some extremely insightful and interesting sources from around the pedagogical world.
Staff CPD SEND
https://leadinglearner.me/2020/09/20/clt-2-0-the-teacher-scaffolding-effects/ : Some top advice here from @LeadingLearner
Cognitive Load Theory
Staff CPD Mastery
Staff CPD Learning Behaviours
Staff CPD Retrieval Practice, Memory and Recall
A fabulous article here about explicit instruction: https://achemicalorthodoxy.wordpress.com/2020/08/02/the-woods-and-the-trees-breaking-rosenshine/
Staff CPD Safeguarding
Staff CPD Behaviour
https://tolearnistofollow.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/10-tips-for-new-teachers/