1. Specialist Leaders of Education training Providing the leadership of excellent teaching and learning throughout your organisation
Leading teaching and learning

2. Leading teaching and learning
Aims
The aims of this session are to:
develop consistency in our understanding of what effective
teaching and learning is
explore a variety of strategies and approaches used when
addressing and trying to improve ineffective teaching and learning
provide you with elements of a toolkit of strategies allowing for
immediate and supportive SLE identification of barriers to learning 2

3. then what barriers to learning are there?
Leading teaching and learning
Ineffective teaching and learning
If attendance, behaviour in corridors and in lessons, respect for the environment and punctuality are all good,
then what barriers to
learning are there? 3

4. Leading teaching and learning4

5. Leading teaching and learning
Case studies
We cannot be one-trick ponies and think that one size will fit all when it comes to school-to-school support.
We need to use a range of approaches, with a variety of tools to lead and improve the quality of teaching and learning. 5

6. Leading teaching and learning video links
Barriers to Learning
The Challenge video
Curriculum Design video
Knowledge/Use of data video
Engagement video
Assessment for Learning video
Behaviours for Learning video

7. Leading teaching and learning
References
Video clips on barriers to learning
Further reading
Resources on leading teaching and learning
The following publications are available on the National College website (
Pope, R & Young, M, 2009, Leading teaching and learning
Kent, P, 2010, Reducing in-school variation
Matthews, P, 2009, How do school leaders successfully lead learning? 7

8. Leading teaching and learning
Evaluation
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