Transforming School Attendance National Conference
1 date
£185.00
+ VATPERSISTENT ABSENCE: Removing barriers and building successful partnerships for regular school attendance
The UK government has stated that all schools need to address the soaring levels of persistent absence amongst out students. However, when the most persistently absent children are so often those with the most complex needs, successfully removing those barriers and re-establishing the habits of regular attendance can be a real challenge.
This masterclass will aim to provide all those with responsibility for attendance with a wide range of evidence led practice strategies that will help all schools work with students and their families to build trusting and positive relationships and work together to overcome the barriers of persistent absence. Participants will gain effective practical strategies which can be implement straight away. There will also be opportunities to discuss specific challenges with the trainer and network with others.
Gain an up-to-date understanding of the changes to guidance relating to school attendance;
Know how a range of barriers can contribute to learned habits of persistent absence;
Understand how good attendance everyone’s responsibility is and how to establish patterns of behaviour that place responsibility for attendance with every adult in school;
Be able to use research, government guidance and models of proven best practice to devise an effective persistence absence strategy for their schools;
Unpick the habits of regular attendance;
Effectively evidence the impact of attendance interventions.
Attendance Officers, Education Welfare Officers, Headteachers, Deputy Heads, Assistant Heads, Heads of Year, SENCOs/ALNCos, Inclusion Managers, DSLs, Pastoral Leads, Family Engagement Officers, Behaviour Leads.
Having spent over 25 years teaching and leading a variety of schools across the UK, Steve is a sought after as an expert practitioner, consultant, and trainer. He specialises in developin...g effective school leadership at all levels; and supporting outstanding and impactful classroom practice, pedagogy, learning and teaching.
Steve is lead quality assurance inspector for The British Council in Egypt, where he also leads successful training programmes for school leaders and teachers. These programmes have now been taken up by The British Council in Nepal and Saudi Arabia where programmes having been piloted with teachers and school leaders and are now due for implementation academic year 2021-2022.
Steve has led teaching and learning development projects in China, Kazakhstan, and Kurdish Iraq.
In China, he worked in partnership with the Ministry of Education to train Chinese teachers in modern classroom pedagogy and practice as part of the Chinese Government’s 2020 Education reforms.
In Kazakhstan, Steve worked with partners from Cambridge University Press to train local teachers to plan, write and implement a series of primary textbooks as a tool for remote education reform.
In Kurdish Iraq, Steve worked in partnership with a large chain of international schools to train teachers and school leaders in modern pedagogy and leadership, quality assurance and inspection. This was part of a larger project to lead education reform across Kurdish Iraq which has had to be put on hold due to the pandemic.
Currently, Steve is co-ordinating leadership development and curriculum development projects for government schools in India, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. This includes working with a Mumbai based University to plan, write and lead a post graduate diploma in Global Education, alongside leading leadership, and teacher training for many schools across India.
Alongside Steve’s training and education reform projects, he receives frequent invitations to speak at international education conferences, features in a wide range of training videos and online seminars, hosts regular interactive webinar sessions on key aspects of effective classroom practice and school leadership; and coaches and mentors headteachers worldwide.
Steve is a lead trainer for The British Council, and lead trainer and examiner for Cambridge Assessment International Examinations and the International Baccalaureate
Steve writes, delivers and hosts training and consultancy in schools, colleges, academies and conference venues throughout the UK, Europe, The Indian Subcontinent, Central and southern Asia and the Middle East as well as supporting organisations in planning, producing and delivering on-line and blended learning education courses.
Steve writes a regular column for several UK education publications and is currently writing a teacher development training manual for an international publisher.
In addition to his work in education reform and development, Steve is a professional musician, choral conductor and arranger who leads choral workshops for amateur and professional singers.
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