Sue Rogers has extensive and varied experience in education and is now a freelance education consultant, both in the UK and internationally.
Sue specialises in school improvement and teaching and learning, carrying out audits, offering advice and training. As a successful headteacher she has led and managed 4 very different schools covering pupil age ranges from 4 to 14. She is very experienced in leading school inspections as an Additional Inspector. She has also been employed in several LAs as a link adviser, working particularly with urban schools in Special Measures or identified as in need of improvement. Recent work has included interim LA management at principal adviser level.
Sue’s school improvement work consists, in the main, of working alongside senior leaders, validating, training, supporting and guiding. School reviews with reports and action points designed to improve the quality of school self evaluation, monitoring and planning are popular. Sue has a hundred percent record - no school which she was supporting has failed its Ofsted inspection and the vast majority of leaders have secured a judgement of at least good. Sue has run several self evaluation projects for London boroughs, the most interesting of which has been successfully moving schools from ‘Good to Great’. Sue also provides and evaluates the content for Perspective, which is Self Evaluation Form writing software produced by Angel Solutions.
Sue has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, an Advanced Diploma in Mathematical Education and a Master of Arts in the social psychology of learning and the teaching of language skills. She has always kept up to date with research on learning, using this as a basis to inform training on optimum teaching techniques. She has managed several innovative learning and teaching projects for London boroughs. One of the most substantial of these involved producing a unique, combined teaching and learning framework and evaluation tool, which integrates these principles with recent government initiatives and national curriculum requirements. Her latest products are highly praised assessment for learning materials. These are available to download on her website. Sue has always believed fervently that the provision of a vibrant broad curriculum, with a strong emphasis on arts, physical education and social skills, so developing the whole person, is the only way to raise standards across core and foundation subjects. It seems that Jim Rose agrees! She has been commissioned by companies such as British Gas to evaluate curriculum projects for schools. Other projects included two pieces of work for different London boroughs on effective transition from Reception to Year 1.
