Subject Specific Pedagogy INSET for an Independent School Group

“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

Are you planning your staff CPD development days across an independent schools group?

If you are currently planning for staff CPD developments sessions for an independent school group for the remainder of this academic year and/or September 2025, we will be pleased to work with you to create a bespoke staff development day tailored to your needs.

Our inhouse team of experts have the spotlight on the current most relevant and asked for key issues, opportunities and challenges that academies are wanting to focus on. 

Subject Specific Training

Teachers , especially in Secondary schools often cite subject-based CPD as more effective than generic training, as they can see a direct effect on their own teaching and therefore the attainment of the classes that they teach; certainly teachers enjoy training within their subject discipline and there are certainly instances where there would be little point in doing generic training – in areas such as exam technique for example.

Independent School Groups can use economies of scale to focus on Subject Knowledge & Pedagogical development

Independent school groups are in a unique position to be able to provide group wide subject knowledge & pedagogy CPD during their INSET days.

Focus on your priorities and key areas, including, but not limited to…

We can draw on our extensive database of specialist subject associates to arrange simultaneous training days for independent school groups with multiple sites. Often these are arranged with a common theme which is explored in depth in practical workshops within each subject discipline, for example:

• Consistency of the quality of teaching & learning across the curriculum
• Stretch and challenge
• Supporting Neurodiverse learners 
• Improving the level of teaching pedagogy
• Raising attainment
• Metacognitive strategies in the classroom 
• Adaptive teaching strategies 
• Improving assessment and feedback to drive up performance

Bespoke to the needs of Senior Schools or Prep Schools

These can also be tailored to match the needs of learners at different key stages. We can deliver versions of these for Senior School or Prep School staff within the same independent school group if you prefer to arrange the training by phase.

“Knowledgeable and dynamic” 

Katie King, Assistant HOD, Dragon School 

Why is Subject Knowledge & Pedagogy so important?

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.

The benefits for an independent schools group

Our subject knowledge courses will help your teachers:

• Allows teachers to incorporate new content, methodologies, and resources into their teaching
• Gain a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of their subject and associated specialist pedagogy
• Develop critical reflection skills
• Gain confidence in applying research based strategies to their classroom teaching
• Discover innovative ideas, techniques and activities to use in the classroom

A selection of our subject enriching courses are listed below but if you can’t find the area you are looking for use our enquiry form and we can source a lead practitioner to meet your needs.

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📧 Email us at enquiries@jmcinset.com

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“I really appreciated how organic the delivery was”

Shelley Chapman, Head of Teaching & Learning, The Marist School

Subject Knowledge Courses

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