Overview

Tim Dracup, Gifted and Talented Lead at the DCSF, will be joining us to update you on the recent reforms in gifted and talented education and discuss the impact this will have on the post-16 sector. Tim will help you bring your provision in line with the government’s changing expectations for very able students, and show you how to develop a customised approach to provision that fits in with your current setting.

Professor Deborah Eyre, International Education Consultant and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, will reveal the values, skills and knowledge that universities look for in post-16 students. Deborah will help you develop an ethos of ambition and achievement amongst your very able learners while Ian Warwick, Senior Director of London Gifted and Talented, will give you the nuts and bolts of challenging students in the classroom. Ian will share his top strategies for differentiating learning at a high level to help learners develop the subject expertise, intellectual curiosity and higher order thinking skills needed to access the new A*.

Attend this conference to:

• Develop a culture where students are supported in the move towards independent learning
• Engage staff in creating challenge for very able students at post-16
• Pick up classroom strategies for differentiating learning at a high level
• Help very able students access the new A* and gain entry to top universities
• Develop your policy and action plan for leading high quality provision
• Spark students' passion for learning and develop them as subject specialists

Who should attend:

• G&T Coordinators
• Head of Sixth Form
• Directors of Teaching & Learning
• Deputy Principals & Assistant Headteachers
• LA G&T Strand Coordinators
• AIM Higher Coordinators

Click here to book your place now

PLUS: All delegates will be able to download exclusive speaker presentations to take back to school and use in training.