Kate McGregor, Education Consultant, UK

Kate McGregor - Education Consultant

Personalised Professional Development, Teacher Coaching and bespoke CPD.

Kate McGregor is an Education Consultant that works cross-academy, with leadership teams, at faculty level, with subject leaders or departments and one to one in classroom environments to raise aspirations and achievement.

Working with staff to help them to re-engage with their classroom practice, personalised teacher development is a powerful tool for sustained improvement.

Moving from DT to Art

Developing.education can provide on site training opportunities for Design Technology staff who wish to move across to the GCSE Art specification for Textiles, Gra$

Training can be tailored to meet your specific needs as a team, individual or consortium.

Title specific advice is also available for course structure, project creation, marking and feedback.

Art Tutor

[email protected] is an experienced Art teacher and moderator (GCSE and A level) offering private tutoring for individuals or whole classes in the Bath and Bristol area.

If you wish to improve upon your current grade but are struggling to do so in class, experienced and friendly support tailored to meet your exact needs is available.

[email protected] also offers a portfolio service, helping students to select work for foundation, college or university interviews.

Contact Kate to discuss your needs.
Fully qualified including DBS clearance and child protection training.

Clients

Northern Schools Trust

Northern Education Trust

Education London

Colchester Academy

Russell Education Trust

London Academy

Active Learning Trust

Folkestone Academy

AQA teacher trainer and CPD

Brian Rowe Associates

Hewitt school Norfolk

Ormiston Bushfield Academy

Performance & Support Online Software Platform

Bespoke Software tool for Performance Management and CPD

Developing.Education has created an online software platform to ensure a consistent approach to measuring performance, providing timely support and monitoring ongoing training needs.

Originally created to support Developing.Education's work in schools and academies, the online software can be tailored to meet specific needs, has the capacity to support sustained and measurable improvement over time and is capable of generating Teaching & Learning data in an Ofsted friendly format.

Supporting professional development for all staff (including leadership and support staff). The system has been designed to encourage staff to take responsibility for evidencing improvements and assessing impact of CPD. Developing.Education's platform can be used to collate and cross-reference QA with observation data over time to ensure that judgments remain consistent.

Developing.education can provide on site training opportunities for Design Technology staff who wish to move across to the GCSE Art specification for Textiles, Graphics and or 3D design.

Training can be tailored to meet your specific needs as a team, individual or consortium. Training can be run as a day course or as one to one teaching and learning opportunities.

Through discussion of previous results and folders, recommendations can be made as to how and why existing SOW might be adapted from the legacy DT specification to the new Art specification. Title specific advice is also available for course structure, project creation, marking and feedback.

We believe that our software has a great deal to offer any education institution.
Our approach is completely hands-on for every client, this is not an off-the-shelf 'almost-fits' solution.
To discuss your needs with us, please email us here.

Software features:

Teaching & Learning
CPD
Performance Management & PIPs
QA & Student Voice
Real Time Professional Dialogue
NQT, ITT & Support Staff
Bespoke development available

Live performance monitoring

Detailed OFSTED-friendly data

Easy-access performance reporting

Staff CPD records & response

Progress over time with evidence & dialogue

Detailed staff assessments & QA

Testimonials

"Since I first encountered Kate as part of a review team in 2010 I have frequently sought her support when undertaking interim principal roles in schools in challenging circumstances.
Her understanding of how to secure improvements in teaching and learning is second to none. Her key skill lies in communicating robust messages to teachers about the quality of their work while at the same time keeping the same teachers onside and developing their confidence in their own ability to improve. This they invariably do.
Sharp assessment, constructive feedback, active support and the willingness to model what she preaches step by step free teachers who have been ‘stuck’ in patterns of behaviour in the classroom.
Her method of working ensures that teachers develop the confidence to implement what they have learned independently.
A consummate professional at all times Kate has always played an invaluable role in changing the culture within these schools and I am indebted to her for this."

Dr. Shelagh Potter, Esempe Ltd.

"Kate is a highly skilled practitioner who is very effective at helping teachers improve their techniques in the classroom. Over time Kate has developed a wide range of methods that helps teachers improve their planning, assessment, class management and behaviour for learning skills.
She has the highest level of professional integrity and always makes accurate balanced judgements when undertaking department and school reviews.
Kate quickly gains the trust of teachers and senior staff because she is so well informed and extremely professional in her approach to any task. She is creative and innovative devising personalised and individualised methods of support for class teaching and staff with management responsibility. She is extremely thorough in her preparation, demanding of staff she supports in a sensitive way and caring about pupils' and teachers' welfare. Kate motivates and enthuses staff through her support and gives them the confidence to effectively fulfil their role. She 'sets the bar' very high for herself and for those who work with her."

Brian Rowe, Brian Rowe Associates Ltd.

Case Studies

Support Teaching & Learning through mutual agreement; deployed by the head of teaching and learning in agreement with 30 members of staff following a poor Ofsted report and a significant downward trend in results.
Progress of staff over time was discussed in confidence during one to one sessions with Kate.
Teacher confidence improved as did in house judgments and results over time.

Requested to work with staff by staff where results were on a significant downward trend. Staff self-identified areas they would like to develop and worked with Kate on a plan /do /review basis. This led to sustainable improvements in each classroom over time.

Tactical support role in a converter academy where staff numbers needed to be significantly reduced. Assessment and development opportunities were provided to all teaching staff, progress over time recorded and shared with management.

Whole school/academy observation training and development to include the wider expectations of Ofsted and to ensure accuracy and consistency of judgments.

Contact

kate@developing.education
+44 (0)7817 403 883