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Teaching for Progress: Effective Lesson Design and Student Thinking 

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Teaching for Progress: Effective Lesson Design and Student Thinking 

Programme Overview

Topic
Teaching for Progress: Effective Lesson Design and Student Thinking

Delivery Model

Face-to-Face

What is Included

Certificate of attendance

Course material (if applicable)

Cost

AED 2100 plus 5% VAT (per delegate)

Registration

Please fill out the booking form to register.

If you would like bespoke in-school training, please contact Paola (paola@infinitelearning.ae) for more information.

Course Details

Date of Training
Course Dates will be Scheduled Once we have Sufficient Registrations to Ensure Course Viability. 

Time

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Target audience

Classroom teachers, subject leaders, and middle leaders across all phases who want to strengthen lesson design, progress tracking, and student engagement.

Aims of the course

 

To strengthen teachers’ ability to plan and deliver high-quality, structured lessons.

To develop strategies that engage and challenge all learners, including those with additional needs.

To embed metacognitive approaches and reflective practice into everyday teaching.

To support teachers in creating calm, purposeful classrooms that enable progress.

To provide tools for ongoing reflection and professional growth.

Intended outcomes

  • Shift classroom culture from task completion to independent thinking.

    Reframe students as capable thinkers who make choices and reflect on strategies.

    Design lessons that integrate metacognitive practices across subjects.

    Use clear planning and delivery structures to support diverse learners.

    Apply behaviour and classroom management approaches that enable progress.

    Recognise when students are working passively and intervene to encourage active, thoughtful learning.

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Beth Harris

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Beth has been a registered inspector for over 20 years. She is a qualified teacher and principal and holds bachelor degrees in education. She works with regulatory bodies to complete inspections and quality reviews. An educator for over 25 years, Beth has extensive experience in teaching, curriculum design, assessment development and senior leadership across international settings. She has led and participated in over 500 inspections and has supported multiple schools to move from weak to good and outstanding judgements through strategic leadership and coaching.

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This programme equips teachers with the tools to move classroom practice from task completion to thinking ownership. Teachers explore how to design purposeful lessons, plan for progress, and integrate reflection, questioning, and strategy modelling into daily teaching. The course draws on research into brain development, learning theory, and UAE curriculum standards. It provides practical frameworks for structuring lessons, securing engagement, managing behaviour, and embedding assessment for learning. 

DAY 1 – Foundations of Lesson Delivery and Metacognition 
8:45  Registration and refreshments 
9:00  Welcome, introductions, and course overview 
9.15  Session 1: Responsive Planning – Matching Teaching to Learner Needs 

Focus: How to plan lessons that are ambitious yet accessible for all learners. 

Key Areas: 

 

  • Designing tasks with flexible access points 
  • Planning for progression through scaffolding and stretch 
  • Adapting questioning and modelling for specific learner profiles 
  • Setting success criteria that support independence 

 
10:30  Coffee break 
10.45  Continuation of Session 1 (applied practice) 

 

  • Activity: designing tasks with varied access points 
  • Peer discussion: adapting questioning for specific learner needs 

 
12:00  Lunch break 
12.45  Session 2: Structuring the Lesson – Creating Calm, Focused and Purposeful Classrooms (Part 1) 

Focus: How lesson structure and organisation support cognitive focus and learning. 

Key Areas: 

  • Establishing clear routines and transitions 
  • Managing time effectively to maximise learning 

 
14.15  Reflection and close of Day 1 

 
14:30  End 

 

DAY 2 – Embedding Independence and Reflective Practice 
8:45  Networking and refreshments 
9:00  Networking and recap of Day 1 
9.15  Session 2: Structuring the Lesson – Creating Calm, Focused and Purposeful Classrooms (Part 2) 

 

Focus: Refining structure to strengthen recall and understanding. 

Key Areas: 

 

  • Using space, resources, and displays to support attention and comprehension 
  • Building in retrieval and review to reinforce knowledge 

 
10:30  Coffee break 
10:45  Session 3: Securing Engagement – Motivating, Including and Challenging All Learners (Part 1) 

Focus: Engagement as purposeful, thoughtful involvement in learning. 

Key Areas: 

 

  • Designing learning that captures interest and promotes thinking 
  • Encouraging collaborative learning and productive dialogue 

 

 
12:00  Lunch break 
12:45  Session 3: Securing Engagement – Motivating, Including and Challenging All Learners (Part 2) 

Focus: Embedding challenge, reflection, and self-assessment. 

Key Areas: 

 

  • Using targeted questioning to deepen reasoning 
  • Embedding metacognitive strategies for reflection and ownership 

 
14:15  Plenary: Reflecting on Practice and Planning for Impact 

 

  • Identify three immediate strategies to apply in classrooms 
  • Discuss how to monitor impact on pupil learning and progress 
  • Set short-term action focus to strengthen planning, structure, or engagement 

 
14:30  End 

 

د.إ2100
Trainer:
Beth Harris
Duration:
2 Days
Sessions:
2
Language:
English

Natalie Croome is a cross-curricular generalist, specialising in helping teams hone in on just what it is that student learning is showing them about possible areas of focus for teacher and/or leader learning. Using Professional Learning Standards as drivers in the design of high-quality Professional Learning Programmes, Natalie guides teams of leaders through engaging inquiries, honing in on connecting teacher learning to student learning. Natalie brings a fresh, adaptable and flexible approach to her work in leading Professional Learning; keeping it open to questions, research and taking a personal approach to the design process. In this way, she involves Professional Learners in the whole process, from identifying the focus area/s, designing the learning,facilitation, school-based practice, sharing findings, asking new questions... Areas of expertise include teacher identity, the ethics and professional practice of international education, global education pedagogies, bilingual & multilingual classrooms, inquiry-based learning, Cognitive Coaching, interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning, collaborative happiness, Positive Psychology and Emotional Intelligence. Natalie combines a professional approach with a sense of fun and a passion for connecting with people, building relationships, and leveraging curiosity, creativity and play as powerful learning tools.

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