Support for School Staff

Inspire offers a range of support services to school staff to help them plan for and manage their work-related learning and education-business link activities.

We organise and broker professional development placements in workplace settings that are designed to help teachers and related professional staff to gain a greater understanding of the business world, to inform and enhance their delivery of the curriculum and to improve school management systems. Most are one-day placements.

We deliver training and INSET sessions for staff, particularly related to the statutory work-related learning and enterprise education requirements at Key Stage 4, but can also deliver tailor-made sessions to meet particular school needs, at both primary and secondary level.

Inspire facilitates several good practice sharing networks for school teachers and managers, including the Work Experience Network for Work Experience Co-ordinators, the Work-related Learning Forum for secondary WRL Managers and Co-ordinators and the Primary Mentoring Forum for school co-ordinators of these schemes, such as the Reading and Number Partners programmes.

Our business partners are a valuable source of help and advice for school staff and can often provide senior-level staff for our Headteacher / Senior Staff Mentoring programme and skilled employees to meet requests for specialist in-kind assistance and advice.