Andy Griffith - Trainer of the Year

Andy Griffith is a DIRECTOR of MALIT LIMITED, a Merseyside-based education training company which aims to help teachers and schools to raise the quality of teaching and learning through high quality INSET, training and consultancy.

Andy taught for 12 years in secondary schools, four years of which he was Head of Careers and Alternative Curriculum provision. He still links closely with schools and is a consultant on motivational learning and alternative curriculum design to different LEAs. Andy co-created the intervention course “Outstanding Teaching“ with Osiris Educational which was shortlisted for Outstanding Staff Training/Development Initiative in the prestigious TES School Awards 2009 and 2010. His other courses How to be an Outstanding Trainer, Project-based Learning and Games for Learning are also very popular around the UK.

Andy has a lofty reputation for his high impact INSET days packed with humour, moments of self reflection, and literally hundreds of proven practical tools for use back in classroom. Through his work in schools, observing over 1200 lessons in the last five years, his expertise makes him a sought-after educational consultant from schools looking to radically move on the quality of teaching and learning. He is also has a proven track record as an energising education keynote speaker. Andy recently spoke on AfL at the Teachology 2011 Conference entitled ‘First Class: Outstanding Schools of the Future’.

Andy has written a number of education packs, textbooks and on-line materials for young people. He was a member of the QCA writing team for Citizenship and has also written materials for Comic Relief and Sports Relief based on their international and community work, some of which Andy has been involved with.

 
In July Osiris Educational made Andy their trainer of the year.

Teacher quotes

“Thanks very much for a brilliant day, as I said, I’ve seen you before and knew it would be motivational….and it was….my last observation last week was ‘outstanding’.”

“Thanks so much for a truly inspirational day. I really enjoyed the course and feel that I have picked up a lot of strategies that can be used in class and some of them, instantly. I will be feeding back to the rest of the staff at school.”

“In my experience, Outstanding Teaching has been the only professional development programme that has returned a 100% positive feedback from the participants. It has empowered teachers to reflect on their practice, take some risks, and develop new techniques whilst at the same time ‘demystifying’ Ofsted criteria. All participants have improved their teaching significantly through the individualised bespoke design of the programme, and all commented on how much they enjoyed it. These are just two of the comments from participants: ‘Superb, highly motivational, very clear, professional and none-threatening’ and: ‘I am not as boring as I was’.
As the lead on teaching and learning I can show Ofsted the improvements; I can demonstrate the motivational impact on professional culture and the inspiration this has generated in others to do the programme, but moreover it has impacted significantly on pupil progress and made learning fun!”