Bring the book to life in your school…
Andy can deliver bespoke training in your school or college on the content of The Working Classroom. All are flexible and can be made bespoke to suit your setting.
Course / conference suggestion 1: Making the classroom work for working class students
- Who are the Working Class?
- Why are working class students serial underperformers? What does the evidence say?
- To what extent is ‘classism’ a major cause?
- Where does evidence of classism exist in society and education?
- How can schools root out class prejudice?
- What role can curriculum design and discreet lessons play in giving working class students a stronger sense of identity?
- 7 lessons that working class students need to be taught
Course / conference suggestion 2: Developing Cultural and Social Capital
- What is Cultural and Social Capital? Why its development is so important for working class students.
- Language and actions – ensuring working class students and their families feel valued and are not patronised.
- What’s your school’s hidden curriculum?
- What secret knowledge are working class students often denied?
- Building cultural and social capital within the core curriculum.
- Ways to extend and enhance the curriculum that take account of staff workload.
- Implications for staff development and strategic planning.
Course suggestion 3: How to properly develop Cultural and Social Capital with your school community:
2-Day Training Package
Key outcomes
- Deeper understanding of social and cultural capital
- Higher learner engagement
- Dynamic and responsive curriculum design
- More effective teaching
- Faster progress for learners
- Boost ways to deliver equality and equity within the school community
- Ideas can be used across whole school or a MAT
Why?
- Many educators are concerned with the under-achievement of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
- The core purpose of education is to harness the potential of all learners within the school community.
- We simply haven’t got time for the system to change – we need to address under-achievement and low engagement now.
Who?
- Suitable for leaders and teachers at all levels. This is especially important if you teach learners who come from a working-class background, or are in poverty.
- A small group of leaders, teachers and other staff would complete this course over two days.
How?
- Delivered as a two-day in-school or in-MAT training package.
- Can begin with an introductory one-day or half-day session.
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Over the two days (which can be back-to-back or a few weeks apart) staff will understand the terms cultural and social capital more deeply and appreciate how they closely link with the concept of social justice.
Course includes:
- Clear explanation of Cultural and Social Capital and why its development is so important for working class students.
- Data about the underachievement of working class students and the reasons for this.
- Auditing and Feedback tools to explore ‘the hidden curriculum’.
- Building Cultural and Social Capital within the core curriculum.
- Building Cultural and Social Capital through curriculum enhancements and extensions.
- Logistics – ways to extend and enhance the curriculum that takes account of staff workload and financial costs.
- How to build your in-house Cultural and Social Capital team.
- How to grow a network of community partners, and how to use them effectively.
- How impact can be measured and demonstrated – establishing the right blend of quantitative and qualitative success criteria.
The Working Classroom 