NPQSL (Online Year 5) Session 3 – Working in Partnership and Increasing Capability

During this session, you will learn how to:

• Identify a range of local and national partners that can support school improvement
• Put in place systems, processes or structures which facilitate knowledge transfer and shared best practice within and beyond the school
• Identify the most effective partnerships for improving pupil progress
• Work with the governance board effectively to identify and agree approaches to school/ trust priorities, enabling the board to use the purposeful and appropriate data to challenge and hold to account the school leadership
• Identify excellent professional development practice
• Identify talent within an organisation and put in place arrangements or tools to develop and retain it
• Design professional development strategies, which engage all staff and anticipate future professional development needs

Learn about:

• Tools and techniques to identify the organisation’s stakeholders and analyse their views (for example, stakeholder mapping)
• Research into, and examples of, structured partnerships that have improved capability and performance, drawn from a range of schools and non-school contexts
• Tools and techniques to evaluate the impact of partnership working on pupil progress and attainment
• The key features of effective governance as set out in the Governance handbook and competency framework
• Key research into, and examples of, excellent professional development, including for new/recently qualified teachers, underpinned by the Early Career Framework, drawn from a range of schools
• Successful talent identification and retention strategies in a range of schools and non-school contexts
• Structures, tools and techniques that facilitate joint, work-based and self-directed study
• Factors that drive changing professional development needs (for example changes to legislation, the curriculum or pupil intake)