Engaged Researcher Online - Working With Schools Advanced

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This session builds on the introductory ‘Working with Schools’ session and dives deeper into the landscape of schools and primary/secondary education in the UK today. In the first half, we will consider: what are the key issues and challenges in schools today? With this understanding, we will talk about ways in which universities work with schools and what effective partnership looks like. In the second half, we will consider how to plan programmes and activities using pedagogical principles including constructing Theories of Change, embedding evaluation and implementing some popular teaching theories which may influence our practice.

This course will be led by Michelle Tang. Michelle currently works as the Deputy Head of Widening Participation for the University (within the Cambridge Admissions Office). In her role, she oversees a team who work with over 200 schools and 5000 school-aged students each year in a number of widening participation programmes including the University’s flagship HE+ programme, the Sutton Trust Summer Schools and the Insight programme. She has also previously worked as a Schools Liaison Officer, travelling and visiting schools all over the UK but particularly in Yorkshire, Berkshire and Scotland. Michelle completed the Teach First Leadership Development Programme in 2016, during which she worked as a primary school teacher in north London, and holds a PGCE from the Institute of Education. She is passionate about social mobility and the transformative power of education in closing equality gaps.

• PhD students
• Post-docs
• Researchers
• Public Engagement Professionals

Participants must have attended the introductory ‘Working with Schools’ session held this year (https://training.cam.ac.uk/event/4014906), or the sessions 'Working With Schools' or 'Engagement with School and Children' in the past years.

Number of sessions: 1

Provide a deeper overview of the UK school system and the problems and challenges facing schools today

After the course participants will be aware of:

• effective ways of working in partnership with schools, particularly longer-term
• how to incorporate pedagogical principles into programme and activity planning

Good internet connection: the training will take place on Zoom.

If you have troubles joining the sessions or have any queries, please contact Selen Etingu-Breslaw (selen.etingubreslaw@admin.cam.ac.uk).

One ninety-minute mandatory group/plenary session.

• Engaged Researcher Online - Working With Schools
• Engaged Researcher Online - Safeguarding And Child Protection