GROWING GREAT TEACHERS: IMPROVE NOT PROVE with Chris Moyse

Chris Moyse is a nationally acclaimed trainer and consultant with over 30 years of experience in education. A teacher for 18 years, he was a successful Head of Physical Education and went on to become a Teaching and Learning consultant for Somerset Local Authority. He was then a senior leader in a highly successful all-through 3-16 school for 7 years and is now Head of Staff Development for Bridgwater College Trust – a 3-19 multi academy trust in Somerset.

He is also managing director of a successful education and leadership consultancy business; TLC Education Services Ltd, as well as being senior SLE for North Somerset Teaching Alliance.  Chris is also an ambassador for Leadership Matters; a movement designed to give all schools access to the high quality leadership development that ultimately improves pupil educational outcomes.  Chris was also the only associate teaching trainer with Ginnis Training Ltd – an education consultancy company led by the late, great Paul Ginnis, author of The Teachers’ Toolkit. He has worked in over 600 schools across England and Wales.

The natter 

Tell listeners about your career to date , your journey and what you are working on at the moment ?

   I wanted to start by asking about your blog of November last year , entitled RIP performance management. You use the famous insanity quote at the end of the blog , tell me why performance management is dead? 

  Tell us about the professional growth policy you have devised for your trust . 

What are the key drivers for staff development? 

  Going into your professional growth policy , what advantages does continuous professional growth have for teachers and students/pupils ? 

  What is effective personal reflection? Are teachers good at establishing our levels of competence? 

  I’m very pleased to see the data target ditched , what quality assurance processes do you employ to ensure pupils receive the best teaching possible ? 

  How will you use the teachers standards to help teachers reflect on their success, strengths and areas for development?

   What is a challenging focus script and how will this be used by line managers ?

   I’m very excited by the professional growth plan , how will training, opportunities and time be factored into this ?

   What support will be provided for teachers and what feedback will be given ?

   How will observations be used to support teachers to grow professionally ?

   Could you signpost listeners to your website /twitter etc and your excellent podcast with the talking teachers ? 

  Where will you be speaking next about this?

Podcast pedagogy

Again based on #teacher5aday #notice , I will be looking at The Lighthouse in film , Foolish Loving Spaces by Blossoms in vinyl and The Prisoner by Jack Worth in books 

Next week 

Emma Turner interviews Sam Twisleton OBE.