First published May 19, 2022 for Canopy Education
How many times have you sat in a whole school training session, wondering whether you’ll learn anything useful this time while thinking longingly of your displays that need sorting, or that pile of marking on your desk? In my experience of English schools, it’s common to have ‘whole school’ training several times a year, which will somehow help the teachers to become masters of something regardless of whether they teach four-year-olds or eleven-year-olds. Too frequently, this involves the trainer selecting a topic from somewhere in the middle and hoping it will help everyone, but realistically, the skills and subject knowledge needed for teaching year 6 are wildly different to those needed down in year 1. So why do we insist on training everyone at the same time?
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Cat Lamin 