Michelle Noble

2023-Present: Programme Lead for Ba(Hons) Special and Inclusive Education:

• Conception and co-creation of brand-new degree, Special and Inclusive Education, launching September 2025.
• Overall responsibility for the planning, delivery and quality-assurance of all aspects of the degree.
• Creation and management of teaching team.
• Sourced and engaged large external Community of Practice, promoting collaboration between sector and academic staff to foster praxis.

2023-Present: SEND Lead for Primary and Secondary ITE Programmes:

• Creation of Programme-appropriate content.
• Staff support and training.
• SEND content and delivery praised by OfSTED, March 2024 Inspection.

2022-Present: Programme Lead, National SENCo Award

• Outstanding leadership of all Programme-related Teams, including team of fifteen external Tutors.
• Strategic and operational management of all aspects of student and tutor experience, resulting in a 99% pass rate in 2023 and 2024.

Initial Teacher Education; Primary and Secondary Programmes (English specialism)

• Partnership Tutor of excellent standing, fostering relationships and cultivating new Partnerships.
• Quality-assurance of school placement provision and support.
• Bespoke approach to securing success for both students and Mentors.
• Well-respected Lecturer, planning, delivering and assessing across Levels 4-7. Sole planning and delivery Subject Knowledge Enhancement course, 2020.
• Interviewing applicants for both Primary and Secondary ITE.
• Known for securing student success and for supporting students both pastorally and academically.

Key projects undertaken:

• CPD whole Charter created as Consultant member of cross-MAT project, under national pilot scheme, selected as example of good practice by Lord Agnew, 2019.
• 'Elite' Trainer, Creative Education (feedback never less than 'Good')
• Secondary English Consultancy for Local Authority
• Guest presentations for Manchester Metropolitan University's Secondary Initial Teacher Education Programme
• GCSE AQA English and Literature Marker

• Assumed Headship shortly after appointment.
• Restructured staffing (managing appointments and exits successfully).
• Gained approval as GCSE Examination Centre, ensuring Year 11 entitlement.
• Strengthened relationships with Local Authority Teams and external agencies to secure improvement for pupil provision.
• Update of School Improvement Plan and Pupil Premium Policy, acknowledged as good practice by Her Majesty's Inspectors.

• Established and led Raising Attainment Group, increasing GCSE results by 7% in first year, through the establishment of focused improvement programme.

• Successfully implemented the new Inclusion Development Programme across the Local Authority.
• Enhanced cross-team working between National Strategy and Specialist SEND Teams.

• Established strategic management and tutoring of over forty Newly-Qualified Teachers, cited as an example of good work by Local Authority.
• GCSE student gained one of the country's top five marks in English Literature, 2006.

• Quickly established consistently-excellent impact on pupils' academic achievements and pastoral care.
• 1996-1999 Appointed to Deputy Head of Year.
• 1997-1999 Assumed responsibility for GCSE Media Studies.