Imaginative Minds Ltd

Imaginative Minds Ltd. was established in 1990 and is now one of the leading, specialist professional development services companies for education in the UK, concentrating on developing advanced pedagogy around creative and thinking skills and innovative leadership strategies in schools. It provides services to Teacher Training colleges and schools within the UK and to 22 countries around the world. Its Best Practice Library is one of the most extensive professional practice libraries in existence, with over 7000 articles aimed at all teaching and leadership groups within schools. The library service is sold around the world by SWETz and EBSCO and is acclaimed by such universities as Cambridge and Christ College Canterbury . It is regularly updated by a series of publications that are renowned in their own right. These include School Leadership Today, Leadership Briefing, Creative Teaching and Learning and Professional Development Today, amongst others. IM also works with local authorities in the UK developing pupil, teacher and leadership assessment systems. The acclaimed Sandwell Early Numeracy Test KS 2-3 was developed by IM in association with Sandwell Local Authority and it is in the process of developing programmes on training Teaching Assistants (Enable) and improving Behaviour Management (Behaviour Recovery) Its assessment and mentoring programme for teachers, What Is Good Teaching, is now in 1000 schools – (4 local authorities have bought it for all their schools) and has now been turned into an online mobile app system, called i-WIGT. The framework allows for a consistent platform for monitoring and mentoring teacher performance and is appreciated for this ‘level playing field' by teachers and managers alike. The mobile system allows schools to understand the strengths and weaknesses in groups of teachers, eg year or subject teachers, and whole school teaching performance. Phone Number: 0121 224 7578
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Keywords: education management