Courses
Strategies and approaches to supporting more able learners in secondary science
- This session will explore how neuroscience can inform our teaching to ensure the most able students in our science lessons have opportunities to develop deep thinking and appropriately utilise working memory.
- It will address the need to adapt learning to stretch and challenge in science lessons.
Outcomes:
- To have reflected on the evidence about the need to stretch and challenge pupils in science lessons including how it is demonstrated in examinations
- To have evaluated a teaching toolkit for ensuring stretch and challenge is embedded in all lessons
- To have reflected on what is needed to ensure that the curriculum in your school embeds planning for stretch and challenge.
Victoria Rigby, STEM Learning PDL
I am an enthusiastic STEM Education consultant working from early years to ‘A' level in a variety of settings, engaging pupils, teachers and industrial/business partners in professional learning. Throughout my career, I have held many roles from an advanced skills teacher, senior leader in schools, local authority adviser and part of a national school improvement team with national strategies.
My work takes me across the UK supporting leaders and teams to develop outstanding STEM education as well as writing and delivering ongoing professional development materials for national organisations.
Other projects in education and industry have been many and varied - cross phase transition projects, supporting outstanding STEM provision across community groups, developing local science fairs, industrial placements as well as writing and leading science specific and careers in STEM CPD. More recently, I have been building capacity for teachers in SEND settings to improve their confidence and ability to deliver STEM curriculum across subjects and adapting national curriculum for learners with diverse needs.
Virtual Meeting via Zoom / Microsoft Teams