Formative CPD
For principals and deputies who want teachers giving better feedback — Dylan Wiliam principles, Go Nurture courses, UDL and team teaching.
Dylan Wiliam — five formative strategies
Audience: Principals / deputies → teachers
- Clarifying learning intentions and success criteria
- Engineering effective discussions, questions and tasks
- Providing feedback that moves learning forward (not ego grades)
- Activating students as instructional resources for one another
- Activating students as owners of their own learning
Go Nurture product stack (public)
Audience: School leaders comparing tools
- Learn — five short CPD courses (30–45 mins each)
- Signal — live check for understanding mid-lesson
- Assessments — AI-enabled formative feedback teachers approve before students see it
- Works across subjects; GDPR-minded school data stance
- ClassReady difference: Google + Microsoft SSO (not Microsoft-only)
Team teaching starters
Audience: Co-teachers
- Agree roles before the lesson (lead / support / observe)
- One teaches, one circulates with UDL check-ins
- Station teaching for mixed-ability numeracy
- Shared exit ticket; joint reflection in 5 minutes
UDL quick wins (AHEAD ARK)
Audience: All teachers
- Diversity creates barriers — design for all from the start
- Multiple ways to engage (choice board / jigsaw)
- Multiple ways to represent (visual + simplified language)
- Multiple ways to act & express (oral, written, diagram)
- Free ~90–120 min self-paced ARK UDL course + digital badge
Assign co-teachers on the Team teaching tab. Google and Microsoft sign-in are both available under SSO.
GAA Future Leaders 2026/27 modules
Public Tobar list ? useful TY / wellbeing / AAC competency crossover.
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