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22 September 2026
09:30-15:30
Online
A one day course that refreshes key skills and updates you on current standards and expectations. It is designed for teachers and cover supervisors returning after a prolonged absence, or moving from a permanent or overseas post into supply teaching in England and Wales.
The day covers:
Safer working practices
Understanding a range of special needs and their associated challenges
Behaviour management
National curriculum
Ofsted
Removing Barriers to Learning webinar
Engagement strategies, differentiation, feedback and questioning
Videos and conclusion
Evaluation and feedback
Safer working practices. This builds on Simply Education's online safeguarding tutorial and covers key ways to keep yourself safe in the classroom. The tutorial is a requirement for all staff working unsupervised with children or young people, and gives you a grounding in safeguarding roles and responsibilities and in the indicators of potential abuse to recognise and act on. The more you understand about the children you work with, the better you can support and motivate them, so we also look at how to find out more.
Behaviour management. Proactive teachers create calm classrooms by being organised and having a bag of tricks to draw on. We work through common, challenging scenarios and share the best approaches, so that even when the work left for a lesson is sketchy, or missing altogether, you can still create a calm and effective learning environment. The skills covered will lower your stress and make the classroom a better place for you and your pupils.
Removing Barriers to Learning webinar. Pupils learn, process and retain at different rates. You might expect this to be about differentiation, and in a sense it is, from an access to learning point of view, though the detail of differentiation comes in a separate webinar. Here we take apart four common barriers to learning and look at how to help the pupils affected enjoy their learning as much as their peers.
You must complete Simply Education's online safeguarding tutorial before attending.
Before You Book
Please ensure you can attend the full course from a private, quiet space, remain on camera throughout, and join with a device that has a working microphone, front-facing camera, and stable internet connection. Your correct name must be visible on screen at all times. If you're unable to fully participate or meet these requirements, please rebook, as certification may be withheld.
Please also ensure that you review the accompanying document sent separately before the session begins.
Important Information
Your Zoom link will be emailed a few days prior to the course, so please check your junk folder. If you haven't received it by the start of the week in which the training takes place, please get in touch. Late bookings will receive their link shortly before the session. If you have not received it by 9 a.m. on the day, please contact your consultant, as duplicate links typically cannot be issued once the session has started.
