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Professional learning that reaches the classroom

Choose the format that fits your team. Each guide includes preparation, a practical sequence, a worked example, roles and an editable plan.

A shared cycle

Start with learner evidence and a real task. Model a useful teaching decision, rehearse it with feedback, trial it in class and return to an independent learner response. Cascade the practice through demonstrations and supported trials rather than slides alone.

Run a department workshop

Use a real upcoming task to produce a rehearsed teaching move and a review plan.

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Cascade practice without losing the meaning

Make the next colleague’s classroom use the outcome of a cascade, rather than the distribution of slides.

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Run a modelling and rehearsal clinic

Help teachers make expert decisions visible, then practise the explanation before teaching it.

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Learn from a learner’s experience

Use a small case inquiry to understand where school tasks support or obstruct participation.

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Run whole-school professional learning

Connect a shared principle to the different language demands of departments.

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Embed EAL expertise in departments

Make specialist involvement part of planning, teaching and review, with a clear remit.

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Who does what?

Department lead: chooses the task, protects rehearsal and review time, and keeps the practice connected to the subject. EAL colleague: helps analyse language demands, models support and reviews learner evidence. Participating teacher: adapts, trials and brings a small response sample. School leader: coordinates time, resources and follow-up across teams.