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Carmel regularly provides CPD solutions for schools. Whole staff sessions on 'Feedback', 'Oracy', 'Increasing the participation ratio' have all proven popular. Contact Carmel to find out how she can deliver relevant content for your school: carmel_bones@btinternet.com
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about Carmel
Carmel works nationally in schools with classroom teachers and those who are leading on teaching and learning to achieve short term gains and long term results.
A sought after trainer and consultant she tailors INSET to ensure that schools, groups of schools, departments and individuals are enthused and moved forward with their thinking. She is the director of Carmel Bones Education and works closely with Osiris as a team leader and trainer for the (OTI) Osiris Teaching intervention, working with primary, secondary and post 16 teachers. Carmel is an A-level and GCSE examiner.
Teachers are talented, busy people with the job of making a vital positive difference to young people’s lives. Carmel’s aim is to make Inset practical, memorable and effective. Continuous improvement has been the hallmark of her 20 year teaching experience as AST and HOD. She is ambitious for all the young people and colleagues that she works with.
Carmel is also a member of the Historical Association’s national secondary committee and a consulting editor for Hodder Education's new GCSE Dynamic Learning series. Recently she wrote new BBC Bitesize GCSE material and contributes to Oxford University Press newsletters. She leads workshops at the annual Historical Association and Schools History Project Conferences.
In June 2017 Carmel was awarded a Fellowship from the Historical Association.
Coming in autumn 2025, Carmel is delighted to be teaming up with a Scholarship from Tracy Borman OBE and exam advice from David Ferriby to deliver an essential webinar for teachers delivering the Historic Environment 2026 AQA GCSE on the ‘The Globe Theatre’
Set for publication Spring 2026, Carmel is working on Clockwork Classrooms, an essential workbook full of teaching principles and strategies rooted in over thirty years of classroom experience.
Carmel's continued focus on the GTCS (General Teaching Council Scotland) professionally recognised Osiris Teaching Intervention takes her to Edinburgh, Fife and Glasgow in 2025-6.
RETEACH Podcasts – Series 3 launching April 2025 along with new free 'pathway guides' to accompany curriculum development.
Carmel recently worked with BBC Teach to produce this 10 part series of short animated films to explain first order historical concepts.
Carmel proudly hosted the opening day of the inaugural Osiris Educational World Education Summit on March 22nd 2021.