Sue Rogers M.A. (Ed), B.A.(Hons), Adv. Dip. Ed, P.G.C.E.

Sue has extensive and varied experience in education and is a very successful freelance education trainer, interim manager, inspector and consultant, both in the UK and internationally.

Sue has an educational CV with a breadth that is hard to match. As a successful headteacher, Sue has led and managed four very different schools, covering pupil age ranges from 4 to 14.

School improvement

Sue specialises in school improvement, carrying out audits, supporting planning and offering advice. 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.

Also in demand are sessions on self-evaluation moderation and SEF writing, especially now that schools have the facility to design their own self-evaluation format. Sue writes the content for Perspective SEF writing software and can introduce this if requested. She also has her own outline version she can provide if required, personalised for each school.

Sue has run several self-evaluation projects for London boroughs, the most rewarding of which has been successfully moving schools from ‘Good to Great’. She has been employed in several Local Authorities working particularly with urban schools in Special Measures, or identified as in need of improvement. She has also led effective school improvement work abroad in such diverse locations as Nepal, Ghana, Cyprus and Kuwait.

Ofsted preparation

Sue is trained as an additional Ofsted lead inspector and is very experienced in carrying out school inspection work. She has an excellent record in helping primary schools to do well in Ofsted inspections. Most of the schools have improved at least a grade and nearly all the leaders she has worked with have secured a judgement of at least ‘good’.

Teaching and learning

One of Sue’s most requested training courses is ‘How to teach an outstanding lesson’. Sue’s wide experience means that she has been fortunate in acquiring almost unmatched experience in understanding what makes effective teaching. Sue has a Bachelor of Arts 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 is also a regular contributor to the monthly pedagogical magazine Primary Teacher Update. Recent work has included interim Local Authority management of learning and teaching at principal adviser level.

Sue has managed a number of innovative learning and teaching projects. One of the most substantial of these involved producing a unique combined teaching and learning manual and evaluation tool, which integrates her work on optimum teaching techniques with recent government initiatives and national curriculum requirements.

Assessment for learning

Assessment for learning is the other most requested area for training. Sue‘s main message is that successful feedback on how to improve is key. As many teachers struggle with the concept of success criteria (partly because of lack of time) Sue developed the highly praised WMG labels. These are available to download on her website.

Curriculum

Sue has a background in both English and mathematics so is able to lead on both these subjects. 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.

She 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 child, is the only way to raise standards across core and foundation subjects.