Insightful day, great workshops, interesting topics discussed and lots of networking! Thank you SET


Looks like a packed house… just arrived with my newly minted Advanced Teacher Status


Gerry McDonald, group principal of New City College in London – agreed that professional development, reflection on practice and support from employers helped to nurture practices and behaviours likely to deliver excellence in teaching and learning. The conference workshop sessions included one on digital technology and pedagogy at which Vikki Liogier announced the ETF’s new digital strategy and outlined the Digital Teaching Professional Framework (see the inTuition EdTech Supplement for full details). The afternoon panel discussion addressed the question ‘Teaching: art, craft or science?’, which is part of the series of articles being run in inTuition (see pages 16-19 for the latest ones). Perhaps unsurprisingly, both the delegates and the panellists – Professor Maggie Gregson, from Sunderland University, John Johnston, head of the Masters Artist Educator


programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands, and Jonathan Key from the Education and Endowment Foundation – had differing views on where exactly teaching lay on a spectrum of artistry, craft knowledge and the appliance of science. However, most agreed that teachers drew on a bit of each in their daily practice. The final guest speaker, Tom Bennett, often called the government’s Behaviour Tsar for his work on advising on behaviour in schools and colleges, offered advice to delegates looking for ideas on how to motivate learners and manage those students who seem unwilling to learn.


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Loved his ideas on behaviour (Tom Bennett)


In a speech that successfully combined the skills of stand-up comedy with a TED talk, Tom, who is also founder of ResearchED, asked delegates to try scaffolding for behaviour as they might


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