Trevor and Debbie both provide four very popular INSET days for Primary Schools.
The first focuses on Teaching for Learning, the second on Developing Children's Learning to Learn and Thinking Skills, the third on Raising Boys’ Achievements and the fourth on Strengthening Teaching, Learning and Thinking in the Primary classroom: The Role of the Headteacher and Senior Management Team.
Details of all four are set out below.
A typical training day starts at 9am and finishes at 3.30pm with a mid morning and afternoon tea/coffee break and a lunch break from 12.30 to 1.15pm but times can be adjusted to suit individual needs. Trevor and Debbie are delighted to present to clusters of schools and large audiences where facilities allow.
If you would like to ‘tailor make’ your own day Trevor and Debbie will happily talk to you about this and accommodate your requirements as best as possible.
INSET
TEACHING FOR LEARNING
The DCSF Primary Strategy encourages schools to construct learning opportunities that are brain and child friendly.
"Excellence and Enjoyment: a strategy for primary schools affirms a vision for primary education that provides opportunities for all children to fulfil their potential through a commitment to high standards and excellence within an engaging, broad and rich curriculum. Ofsted reports show that in the best primary schools children are engaged by learning that develops and challenges them and excites their imagination. The learning and teaching environment in these schools is shaped by an understanding of what children can achieve and by teaching that meets their individual needs as learners".
This one day course presents the latest neuro-scientific and educational research on how to teach in a way that inspires and facilitates learning, maximising each child's development by catering for learning styles and different intelligences.
The Morning Session Examines:
Teaching in a way that is brain friendly and child friendly including:
How the brain is designed to learn, think and remember
How to construct a classroom environment that promotes thinking and learning
How to get children into the correct state of mind for learning so that they are RAMPant
Relaxed, Alert Motivated and Positive
The nature of human intelligence and that every child is on the gifted & talented register
The Afternoon Session Examines:
Learning styles and Personalising Learning including:
Left and right brained learning and how to promote whole brained learning
Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic Learning
The "Average" Boy and Girl Learning
This day is often described by teachers as the single most valuable training day they have ever received.
For booking information or to find out further details, please click on the pencil.
INSET
DEVELOPING CHILDREN’S LEARNING TO LEARN AND THINKING SKILLS
In their drive to deliver educational excellence, the new Government team, the Department for Children, Schools and Families recognises the benefits of investing time developing children's learning-to-learn and thinking skills. This course is aimed at practitioners who want to develop children’s capacity to learn and think independently and has a strong hands-on feel.
The day focuses on what we can be doing in the classroom with the children to develop their capacity to learn and think effectively in order for them to have more contr ol of and responsibility for their own learning - how children can personalise their learning.
This one day course has five clear themes:
Developing an understanding of the brain
Understanding learning styles
Understanding multiple intelligences
Developing thinking skills
Developing memory strategies
Each school will receive two Brain Boxes for use in the classroom one for Foundation and Key Stage 1 and one for Key Stage 2, together worth £200. Each box is packed full of a week’s worth of activities for children (including lively PowerPoint presentations) that have been successfully used in over 600 primary schools in the UK. In addition, the materials include presentations for a parent session and staff twilight to be run by staff in their own school.
Delegates will use some of the Brain Box materials, look at the benefits of concept mapping and explore how to create a community of enquiry where children are encouraged to ask questions, be creative and think about thinking in an emotionally safe environment.
For booking information or to find out further details, please click on the pencil.
INSET
RAISING BOYS’ ACHIEVEMENTS
This one day course is aimed at both teachers and senior managers and examines theory and, most importantly, classroom practice for the effective teaching of young male learners.
The course provides a clear insight into the factors that influence a boy’s behaviour and learning in the classroom and provides a wealth of easy to adopt and adapt strategies for primary teachers.
The day draws upon the latest educational and neuro-scientific research as well as the findings of UK based case studies and action research projects to raise boys’ achievements.
The course has a number of clear themes:
Understanding the Young Male Brain:
Drawing upon statistics on educational achievement (National SATs, exclusion rates, incidence of ADHD etc) as well as the latest neuro-scientific research on the chemical composition and structure of the young male brain and how this impacts upon learning and behaviour.
Boy Friendly Schools and Lessons:
Clear practical gui dan ce is provided on how to run schools and classrooms and plan and deliver lessons that motivate the “average” boy learner and enable him to learn effectively.
Developing Boys’ Literacy Skills:
This session considers the factors that motivate boys to successfully learn to read, write, speak and listen. The findings of a number of successful action research projects and case studies are presented.
Comprehensive course notes are provided.
There will also be opportunity for delegates to examine some of the newest material available to develop boy’s literacy skills.
For booking information or to find out further details, please click on the pencil.
INSET
Strengthening Teaching, Learning and Thinking in the Primary classroom: The Role of the Headteacher and Senior Management Team
This one day course is designed to inspire and inform Primary Headteachers and their Senior Managers to strengthen teaching, learning and thinking throughout the school .
The day is divided into four sessions with each session having a specific focus:
Session 1: VISION AND ETHOS: How to develop a vision and ethos for your school that promotes effective teaching, learning and thinking.
Session 2: STRENGTHENING TEACHING. This session considers the formulation and implementation of a teaching policy that inspires staff to teach for learning, cater for different learning styles (Logical & creative learners, Visual Auditory and Kinaesthetic Learners and Boy and Girl Learners). It also examines how to secure personalised learning in the classroom.
Session 3: LEARNING TO LEARN SKILLS: This session demonstrates what children can be taught about the learning brain, their preferred way of learning and remembering information and how to develop their confidence, competence and identity as effective learners.
Session 4: THINKING SKILLS. This session examines how to create thinking classrooms and lessons with independent thinking children.
Each school will receive a comprehensive set of course notes for use within the school.