Across the two days, attendees can select from over 220 sessions. We’ve condensed this year’s content to ensure great value for attendees. Alongside our festival keynote speeches, there will be a selection of strands covering topics including Artificial Intelligence, Ofsted, Cognitive Science, SEND and sustainability. Plus, we will have our usual diverse line-up of Festival sessions covering a broad spectrum of topics for all educators. We will start announcing Festival Keynotes in March. Festival strand and session information will be released from late April.
To begin with,the session will outline the key requirements for mentors and some of the challenges and barriers they may face. This will then lead to a discussion of the expertise reversal effect and the practical implications this theory of cognitive science has for mentors. Some ideas for strategies will then be given,before attendees are asked to watch a short clip of a lesson and discuss which of the strategies offered they would use and why,bridging the gap between research and practice.
