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Key CEM PD Skills Individual Courses
Get the most from your assessments by transforming your data to insights with our individual professional development courses. These courses provide teachers, middle leaders, and senior leaders with the key skills to make effective teaching decisions and implement evidence-driven development plans.
Develop your skills in:
- effective decision-making
- using data to promote effective learning across the school
- disseminating assessment data insights to other departments
- setting priorities for school development
InCAS Data in the Classroom
2 hours
This course is designed to further understanding of InCAS data and give examples and suggestions of how the data is best used for middle leaders with an academic component to their job description.
Key outcomes:
- An understanding of how InCAS is carried out and what the results look like.
- An understanding of how to sort the data and how to interpret it.
- An understanding of how to use the data to refer pupils for further assessment.
This course is designed for classroom teachers, special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs), and classroom assistants.
InCAS Data Insights for Middle and Senior Leaders
2.5 hours
This course provides participants with a recap of InCAS – including how it is carried out and what the results look like – and demonstrates how to use data for effective decision-making.
Key outcomes:
- An understanding of how to use evidence from the data to identify areas for development.
- The ability to compare the intake profiles of different classes within a year group, in different year groups, and over time to help identify groupings and resource needs.
- The ability to use evidence from the data to identify areas for development.
This course is designed for year co-ordinators, subject leaders, deputy heads and headteachers.
Sharing CEM Data with Parents
1 hour
This course will provide participants with an understanding of the advantages and pitfalls in presenting baseline data, individual reports, and predictive information to parents.
Key outcomes:
- How to interpret data for parents and how to present and format the data.
- How to use data to involve parents in their child’s learning to build positive relationships and promote better learning.
- An understanding of how other schools have presented data to parents.
This course is designed for heads of academic subjects/departments, heads of academic faculties, heads of year/key stage with an academic interest, teachers aspiring to a post of this nature, school deputies, year co-ordinators, subject leaders, deputy heads, and headteachers.
CEM Data Insights for Middle Leaders
(with Academic Focus)
3 hours
This course will provide academic middle leaders with a more in-depth knowledge of CEM data and how it can be used to promote teaching and learning in the classroom and across the department.
Key outcomes:
- Be able to explore options for setting academic targets for students, monitoring their development, and reporting to staff and parents
- Be able to develop techniques for evaluating departmental performance via value-added data
This course is for heads of academic subjects/departments, heads of academic faculties, heads of year/key stage with an academic interest, and classroom teachers aspiring to leadership.
CEM Data Insights for
Senior Leaders
4 hours
This course for senior leaders provides a more in-depth knowledge of CEM data and how it can be used in a wider school context.
Key outcomes:
- A better understanding of how CEM reports can inform organisation-wide decisions to aid in strategic planning.
- How to evaluate which departments or groups are performing well and how to disseminate that insight to other departments.
This course is for school deputies, heads of schools,
and classroom teachers aspiring to leadership.
CEM Data in the Classroom
3 hours
This course is designed to provide participants with the tools to use data to better understand their students, set development targets in the classroom, and evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching.
Key outcomes:
- A more in-depth knowledge of CEM data and how it can be used to promote teaching and learning in the classroom and across the department.
- How to look for trends in the data to guide teaching and improve outcomes for students.
This course is designed for classroom teachers,
special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs),
and classroom assistants.
Sharing CEM Data with Parents
2 hours
This course will provide participants with an understanding of the advantages and pitfalls in presenting baseline data, individual reports, and predictive information to parents.
Key outcomes:
- How to interpret data for parents and how to present and format the data.
- How to use data to involve parents in their child’s learning to build positive relationships and promote better learning.
- An understanding of how other schools have presented data to parents.
This course is designed for heads of academic subjects/departments, heads of academic faculties, heads of year/key stage with an academic interest, teachers aspiring to a post of this nature, school deputies, year co-ordinators, subject leaders, deputy heads, and headteachers.
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“The secondary courses on sharing data with parents and data insights for senior leaders were very useful for those of us managing data in schools. Real examples helped in outlining how data can best serve all stakeholders, parents, staff, and students.”