Jackie Beere

“Informative, enthusiastic, thought provoking. Brilliant!!”

“Vast range of ideas and materials to share.  Tremendous passion and
enthusiasm”

As the idea of the ‘Learning School’ has grown over the last few years, Jackie Beere has been right at the heart of this educational revolution and is now spreading the word with passion and enthusiasm.

Jackie has been a leading player in the development of learning to learn and a competency-based curriculum.  As an AST, she was awarded an OBE for her work developing new approaches to learning then later as a successful Headteacher.

Ofsted (2004) commented  ‘The dynamic focus by the head teacher and other key leaders, on improving learning is proving very effective in raising standards and has achieved local and national recognition’ 

In addition, Jackie has worked with SSAT, the Campaign for Learning, the National College for School Leadership and, more recently, as a BSF consultant and School Improvement Partner for Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire LAs.

In recent months her contributions to the world of education have included staff and leadership training for SEAL, competency curriculum including the PLTS, ‘good’ to ‘excellent’ teaching and learning and change management using NLP techniques.  She has helped many schools and Academies redesign their curriculum for KS3 in the UK and abroad following her own experience of leading the introduction of Opening Minds, the RSA competency curriculum, in her own school setting.

She has just finished writing her latest book A Competency Curriculum Toolkit as a companion to The Learners Toolkit, which has been a best seller for Crown House Publications.

In fact there are few people in education today who have tried harder to bring all the ideas and innovations for 21st century learning to life for implementation in the classroom. Jackie combines a passion for teaching with practical classroom-based ideas and inspiration for emotionally intelligent leadership in a variety of settings. For the last two years she has further developed her expertise in transforming learning to capture the hearts and minds of our young people working with a huge variety of schools. This has included taking part in a multimedia project for QCA working through Independent Thinking with schools to improve the engagement of students in learning through new approaches to curriculum design.  Click here to see the report that we sent to QCA.

Jackie is now a Master Practitioner of NLP and uses these powerful tools of mind management to inform all her work in education.

Recent feedback conferences and training events include:

• We wanted you to be inspiring and thought provoking and you certainly achieved both…you managed to inject a burst of energy into Friday afternoon and captured the essence of the day with clarity
• Fantastic – inspirational and informative
• Uplifting professionally and personally
• Very useful, would have liked more
• Loads of ideas to take away
• Excellent – not enough time
• Excellent tools
• Very informative and inspiring
• Excellent – class participation enjoyable
• Active and engaging
• Superb, very stimulating
• Realistic and practical ideas.  Clear and down to earth with good involvement of the audience

As a passionate teacher as well as school leader and speaker, Jackie can look at innovations in learning from all sides, combining practical classroom-based ideas with insights from her experience with workforce remodelling, developing lead practitioners, transforming learning and even creating the inclusive ethos for Every Child Matters.

So, why not book Jackie for an Event with your staff, parents or governors (Jackie delivers Events for primary, secondary and further education).

People who have benefited from Jackie have also enjoyed Mike Brearley.

Articles written by Jackie Beere:

• Lessons in Learning to Learn
• Capturing Hearts and Minds
• Learning in the 21st Century
• EQ or IQ?
• Embedding PLTs in whole school practice
• The Perfect (Ofsted) Lesson

Books written by Jackie Beere:

• The Learner's Toolkit: Developing Emotional Intelligence, Instilling Values for Life, Creating Independent Learners and Supporting the SEAL Framework for Secondary Schools
• The Competency Curriculum Toolkit: Developing PLTS Through Themed Learning
• Creating a Learning School
• The Key Stage 3 Learning Kit
• The Primary Learner's Toolkit: Developing Emotional Intelligence, Instilling Values for Life, Creating Independent Learners and Supporting the SEAL Framework for Primary Schools
• The (Perfect) Ofsted Lesson

TV Programmes with Jackie Beere:

• Leave us Kids Alone for BBC 3
• Teacher's TV - ‘One School’s Journey’. This film shows a school seeking to develop more independent learning in the curriculum.  Jackie Beere is one of the consultants offering advice and ideas about transforming learning in this way
• Teacher's TV - ‘One Teacher’s Journey’. This film shows an MFL teacher enlisting the help of Jackie Beere to demonstrate how to implement independent learning in the classroom.

So, if you're looking practical learning strategies for the classroom or ideas, innovations and inspirations to help your school become a learning school then please call the Independent Thinking office on 0844 589 0490 or e-mail us at learn@independentthinking.co.uk

Jackie's CRB number is 001238529055 issued 4th June 2009.

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