Home | Caroline Bentley-Davies

Caroline Bentley-Davies

'Brilliant session. Learnt a lot in an open friendly environment. Engaging presenter and very interesting.'

'Brilliant Training and loads of tips. Left on a buzz ready to try things out!'

'If anyone can observe and coach colleagues to shift them to outstanding it is Caroline Bentley-Davies'

Caroline has been a Local Authority adviser, examiner, Ofsted inspector and accredited SIP. She currently works in schools and colleges across the UK and overseas. She trains and coaches teachers to improve their practice and reach the much sought after ‘Outstanding’ grade. She also runs a range of popular revision sessions with GCSE and A Level pupils and enrichment sessions with Key Stage 2-5 pupils.

Caroline is a Teaching and Learning expert, but also has extensive experience in other areas these include whole day training and twilight inset on areas such as:

Developing and Strengthening Middle Leadership
‘Sticky Teaching’ helping your pupils learn for examination success
Raising Boys' Achievement
NQT Behaviour Management Strategies and how to have an outstanding year.

The most popular inset topic this year is currently: ‘Sticky Teaching’ based on her bestselling book.

Caroline also works with middle and senior leaders evaluating teaching and learning. She provides an impartial review of specific areas such as: the quality of marking and feedback, quality of lessons, pupil voice and conducts Learning Walks on the school's priority areas. This allows the school to receive important feedback about how well they are doing and gives clear direction about what next steps they need to address.

Caroline's Books:

Be Brilliant at Behaviour Management

Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching

Sticky Teaching and Learning

How to be an Amazing Teacher

Outstanding Lessons Pocketbook

Raising Achievement Pocketbook

Literacy Across the Curriculum Pocketbook

How to be an Amazing Middle Leader

Don't take our word for it!

Caroline receives countless great evaluations. Please see attached some of the comments below to give you a flavour of the training/consultancy:

How to be an Amazing Teacher training

"So engaging and informative. Super helpful tips!" Charlotte Black - Sydenham High Prep

"I enjoyed how interactive the session was – plenty of space for questions & discussions." H Finlay - Streatham & Clapham Prep

"Some very good tips of classroom practice and practical ideas to implement." Catherine Scott - Deputy Head Llandaff

Adaptive Teaching & Feedback : Mount House School

"Engaging and research driven. Believable and not a lecture. Relatable trainer with gravitas from quality of ideas and delivery." Jon - Headteacher

"Over the years I have attended many training session – few however that I have found very useful. Your session has been truly exceptional and very useful. A variety of practical examples that I may apply directly to my practice." M Wachowska - Head of Year 10/English teacher

Stretch and Challenge : Barnsley Sixth Form College

"Excellent. Really enjoyed that everything was grounded in logic and good practise. But also very tangible, practical examples." T. Hewitt - Area Leader - Creative Arts

"Love training where you leave with lots of little ideas which have a big impact." T. Marsden - Geography

"Knowledgeable and applied to all subject areas with concrete examples. Excellent Training." L. Thorpe - Leader, Maths, Business and Enterprise

How to be an Amazing Middle Leader : Stow Heath Primary School

"Caroline was fantastic. Very engaging & knowledgeable. Kept us all involved and engaged." M. Ramzon - Class Teacher

"A motivating day that allowed us to think as leaders." - Assistant Head

"Beneficial for all staff at all leadership levels. Engaging speaker." E. Nicholls - Deputy Head

Teaching & Learning Start of Year : St George’s Weybridge

"Lots of enthusiasm and practical ideas. Good tips and things that will have an impact. Eg: questioning. " E Shaw - English Teacher

"Really made me reflect on my teaching and inspired me to be the best version of myself this year. Motivating. " L Lachan - Maths Teacher

"V Informative & interactive & interesting. Lots of useful tips. Brilliant trainer – entertaining but useful!" - Head of Geography

Sticky Teaching & Learning : Daneshill School

"Thank you once again for facilitating another superb session on Friday - sticky teaching has certainly stuck with me and the delegates in attendance!" L. Reeves - ECT Lead

Sticky Teaching : Southview Primary School, Lincolnshire

"Enthusiastic motivational with lots of interactive ideas to use. " Sam - Teacher

"Lots of strategies to try for different ages and abilities. Very engaging." L. Baxter -

"Really interesting and relevant. Thought provoking. Engaging presentation style. Loved it." E. Garside -

How to make learning stick : Chase Terrace Academy

"I just wanted to thank you again for the wonderful training you delivered today. The feedback from staff has been overwhelmingly positive with several saying it’s the best training they have ever received! 😊" Carrie Cain - Deputy Headteacher

Stretch and Challenge & Sticky Teaching : Chipping Sodbury School

"I’ve been teaching for thirty years and have been through many INSETs..this was still fresh and relevant – I feel inspired!" - Head of Design and Technology

"Too many courses just ‘talk at you’. I have left with practical strategies. Excellent training." -

"Very engaging and excellent use of humour and great activities. Superb presenter." K. Turner - Headteacher

Bespoke sessions: Behaviour for Learning, Sticky Teaching/ Retrieval Practice : Sharples School

"Really personal - made sure we all got involved in activities. Lots of engagement." B. Barley - English

"Very engaging and knowledgeable. Very useful." R. Pearson - Maths

"Really enthusiastic and knowledgeable." L. Alexander - PE

Deputy Heads comments who booked training:

Training on ‘Sticky Teaching’ to lead teachers "The training was perfect for where we are as a school at the moment. Just what we needed to kick start next year's cpd strands. Excellent." Assistant Headteacher. Yorkshire.

Hereford College of Arts (after a series of 3 training sessions on teaching and learning): "Ofsted recognised the impact of your sessions on Assessment for Learning on raising the quality of teaching, learning and assessment..If anyone can observe and coach colleagues to shift them to outstanding it is Caroline Bentley-Davies ." Dr J. Kettyle, Assistant Principal.

Primary Cluster (series of 3 trainings on AfL for outstanding lessons) "I just wanted to say a big thank you for the AfL training you delivered on Friday. All feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and pleas from staff to try and book you again." B. Medhurst, Deputy Head, Bradford area.