Elevate Teaching Quality Across Your Trust with Scalable, Subject-Specific CPD
Why MAT Leaders Choose JMC INSET
- Deliver trust-wide CPD with economies of scale
- Ensure consistency in teaching quality across schools
- Align with Ofsted’s deep dive expectations
- Provide subject-specific training that drives attainment
- Tailor CPD to GCSE, A-Level, and KS3 priorities
“It was exceptionally useful, highly relevant & personalised to our school. I cannot recommend highly enough!”
Dr Dawn Casserly, Headteacher, St. Paul’s School for Girls
What We Offer
Multi-Academy Trusts are uniquely positioned to deliver impactful, subject-specific CPD across multiple sites. JMC INSET provides:
- Bespoke INSET days tailored to your trust’s priorities
- Simultaneous training across subjects and schools
- Expert-led workshops focused on pedagogy and curriculum design
- Support for Ofsted preparation, including mock deep dives
Popular Focus Areas
- Consistency in teaching & learning across the curriculum
- Stretch and challenge
- Supporting Neurodiverse learners
- Raising achievement
- Metacognitive strategies
- Adaptive teaching strategies
- Improving assessment and feedback
Ofsted-Ready Pedagogy
Our training helps your teams prepare for Ofsted by:
- Clarifying subject rationale and sequencing
- Strengthening subject-specific pedagogy
- Offering mock inspections and mentoring dives
Arrange for a departmental review for your subject area
Contact our team to arrange a subject review delivered by quality-assured and respected reviewers with high levels of credibility and relevant experience.
JMC Inspection Team
Why is Subject Knowledge & Pedagogy so important?
“Teachers should have to prove their subject knowledge is up-to-date at regular intervals to maintain their qualified status”
Professor Daniel Muijs , Ofsted, Head of Research
Subject knowledge & pedagogy has become more important as inspectors will need to understand the rationale behind the choice & sequence of the curriculum as well as the subject specific pedagogy applied in the classroom . Subject leaders and coordinators have never had a greater responsibility for ensuring progress in skills, knowledge and understanding from different starting points in their subject areas.
Research also shows that strong subject knowledge contributes significantly to outstanding teaching pedagogy. In a review of research behind effective teaching, Coe et al. ((Coe et al., 2014), p. 2) found that a teacher’s subject knowledge, and their understanding of how pupils handle this subject, has strong evidence of impact on student outcomes. Teacher credibility ( the belief and trust pupils have for their teacher) scores and effect size of 0.9 in Hattie’s Visible Learning which is (almost) equivalent to a two grade leap in GCSE grades! We can see this need for excellent subject knowledge in Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction (Rosenshine, 2012). Like Coe’s work, this looked at the defining characteristics of effective teaching and found, among other things, that effective teachers were able to provide detailed explanations of the material they were teaching.
Our subject specific courses are delivered by experts in their field with insight, depth and passion. They are designed to help your in-service teachers update or develop their current subject knowledge or to train to teach other specialist subjects. As a departmental or whole school training event they give an invaluable opportunity to foster expertise and academic rigour.
Our subject-specific courses can cover changes in exam expectations, support teachers delivering in a subject area they are less familiar with and provide a range of strategies and approaches to bring a subject to life.
Expert-Led Subject Training
All courses are delivered by specialists with deep subject knowledge and classroom experience. We support:
- In-service teachers updating their subject expertise
- Cross-training for teaching additional subjects
- Departmental CPD aligned with trust-wide goals
Book a Free Trust CPD Consultation
Let’s plan a bespoke INSET day for your MAT.
📧 Email us at enquiries@jmcinset.com
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