Elevate your SEND leadership with our transformative INSET session, designed to empower SENCOs, Heads, and SEND leaders to excel in Ofsted inspections through strategic communication, comprehensive context understanding, and robust curriculum design. This session offers practical tools and insights to enhance the quality of SEND provision, ensuring every pupil’s needs are met with excellence and confidence.
This masterclass will enable you to develop strategic communication skills and engage effectively with all SEND stakeholders, including local authorities, governors, parents, teachers, and pupils. You’ll learn methods to empower your team, ensure consistent support for pupils with additional needs, and adapt the curriculum based on educational contexts and data-driven insights. The training also focuses on aligning SEND provision with national standards, evaluating the impact of interventions, and enhancing staff expertise through targeted development, all in line with the SEND Code of Practice, Ofsted’s inspection framework, and evidence-based practices.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
SENCOs, senior leaders and Link Governors for SEND
FACILITATOR Malcolm is an executive leadership consultant who works with the National Institute of Teaching and Teach First, designing leadership courses, supporting school improvement and delivering National Professional Qualifications.
He has been a Headteacher, Executive Headteacher and National Leader of Education, typically working with schools in disadvantaged communities.
KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Participants will develop skills to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders, including local authorities, governors, parents, teachers, and pupils, to ensure cohesive and supportive SEND provision.
Participants will learn to utilize data and insights to understand their educational context from an Ofsted perspective, leveraging this information to align SEND strategies with national standards and inspection frameworks.
Participants will gain strategies for aligning their SEND provision with curriculum leads, ensuring that necessary adaptations are made to meet the diverse needs of all pupils.
Participants will acquire techniques for assessing the effectiveness of SEND interventions through robust evidence sources, such as pupil work reviews and pupil voice, to inform ongoing improvements.
Participants will explore methods for enhancing staff expertise and confidence through targeted training, coaching, and mentoring, and will develop personalized action plans to advance their SEND provision.
