Making the most of INSET
I'm currently involved in planning a full INSET day for the first day back in January, and would appreciate any feedback on our thinking at this stage. General attitudes towards INSET expressed online would suggest that teacher experiences are patchy at best, and I'm very aware of our responsibility in school to get this stuff as good as it can be. Partly, I'm writing this just to get my own thoughts clear; partly to ask any teachers with the time or inclination to comment whether this sounds like a decent use of time. I'd be particularly interested to know if there are any glaring omissions in the proposed content - what's missing? Does it seem like content which would be helpful for all subjects, or is more domain-specific content required? If this was emailed round as a plan at your school, what would be your response? Focus Our focus for this day is on teaching disadvantaged students. Whilst being a generally high performing school, we have a sizeable gap in the...