The Education People is very excited to be launching its new TEP Talks series from September 2020. These interactive sessions will take the form of a monthly webinar, followed by questions, answers and discussion. They will be led by leading national and international speakers and link closely to current educational priorities.

This is a unique opportunity for teachers to connect with leading education experts as they share ideas and provide thoughts on how to close the gaps in pupil learning and improve educational outcomes.

Autumn Term 2020 we have had TEP Talks from Marc Rowland (Putting Your Energy into the Provision for the Forgotten Third), Alex Quigley (Closing the Reading Gap), Professor Daniel Muijs (Using Relevant Research and Evidence to Inform Practice in School) and Ian Gilbert (Navigation vs Knowledge - Thinking and Learning in a Post COVID World).

Our 2021 TEP Talks are well underway and we already have seen talks from Professor Teresa Cremin (Reading for Pleasure - Building Communities of Readers), Mark Anderson (Research-informed Approach to the Successful Use of Technology Support Remote Education) and most recently Pran Patel (Reviewing Curriculum Impact on all Children - Working Towards Equality).

Still to come in 2021, we have confirmed the following talks which are available to book:

• Tom Sherrington - Changing Teachers' Habits with Evidence-informed CPD 
• Mary Myatt - The Curriculum as a Story

Please be aware that our TEP Talks are only available as live events and will not be available to purchase as recorded webinars.

Ofsted identified instructional leadership as a key driver in effective schools. Essential to instructional leadership is quality professional development. Tom’s latest Book Teaching Walkthrus grew out of the realisation that most teachers are looking to develop their practice, harnessing ideas from cognitive science and other research.

This webinar will support leaders to answer the following questions and support with designing finely tuned professional learning systems and content:

• Why can it be difficult for teachers to improve?
• What are good bets for them to work on?
• How can leaders manage professional learning and accountability procedures to maximise teacher development?

Mary Myatt is an education adviser, writer and speaker. She trained as an RE teacher and is a former local authority adviser and inspector. Over the course of this session Mary will look at:

• some thoughts on the curriculum as a story across key stages
• the headlines of research to help our curriculum thinking
• some ideas on how we can use story to underpin new units in foundation subjects
• how we can do fewer things in greater depth.