In School/College INSET
If you are looking for a course to run onsite at your school or college, we have over 800 to chose from. These are all quality assured courses we have successfully run in the recent past. They have been delivered exclusively by trusted trainers that consistently receive great feedback. 98% of attendees state they would recommend our courses on their evaluation forms.
To narrow down the list of courses to only those in your chosen subject, simply click below on the area of expertise most applicable to you or your colleagues. Otherwise you will be scrolling all 800 teacher training days in alphabetical order! If you're planning a Whole School INSET day, our unrivalled range of learning and teaching, pastoral care, behaviour, leadership and Special Educational Needs programmes may well prove of interest.
Once you find a course of interest (or if you already know the INSET topic you would like to run) click on the contact form link on this page, including prospective dates, and we will happily check availability for you. We are offering a 20% discount on all INSET speakers booked in June and July. This applies even if you are planning ahead for the next academic year.
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Brain Gym: Understanding Developmental Delay and Providing Remediation Options in the Classroom
Learning & Teaching
The Brain Gym movements are now used in many schools across the world to help learning and concentration and for the development of specific functional skills needed for literacy, numeracy and other skills. A key to the optimal implementation of such a movement programme is to understand what lies behind each of the movements.
Catch them Early! - How to address the Year 8 dip: classroom strategies for motivating boys at KS3
Learning & Teaching
If you want to counter the Year 8 dip, and learn how to motivate boys in your year group or department, this practical course could be the answer. Aimed at Heads of Year as well as Heads of Department, this course will provide you with tried and tested classroom strategies which you and your staff can employ to raise enthusiasm amongst boys and help you to narrow the achievement gap between the sexes.
Creating Inclusive Teaching Resources using everyday technology
Learning & Teaching
Providing alternative formats for learners with disabilities is a legal requirement under the SED. Most learners will benefit from a blended learning approach. Learn how to use images, videos and MP3s to enhance understanding and improve engagement without buying extra equipment or learning new skills. Creating media rich resources has never been easier - once you know how.
Creativity with Control: Holding on Whilst Letting Go
Learning & Teaching
Younger pupils are creatures of emotion, not logic. This course will offer delegates the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of how creative approaches can have a powerful impact on learning, engagement, relationships, thinking skills, behaviour and progress.
Critical Thinking Skills for the Classroom
Learning & Teaching
By attending this course delegates will develop a clear understanding of where the opportunities for building thinking skills into everyday classroom teaching exist. They will also understand the nature of Critical Thinking Skills and their value to the students performing them.
It will also hopefully lead to more interested students, more reflective classroom practise and lower stress levels!
It will also hopefully lead to more interested students, more reflective classroom practise and lower stress levels!
Delivering Work Related Learning & Enterprise through School Business & Community Partnership
Learning & Teaching
This inset day will help schools cope with the wide range the government's Work Related Learning initiative for 14-16 year olds. The training will enable you to take a whole school approach to enterprise and offer a variety of vocational courses which all require closer links with business. The course focuses on developing a support system that saves time and improves the quality - and quantity - of school, business and community links.
Developing & Sustaining Positive Learning Cultures via PLTS & LOTC
Learning & Teaching
This course will show how to create a more productive culture for all lifelong learners. By developing knowledge and understanding of Personal learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS) and how they can be facilitated will effectively enable the team - classroom, department or whole school - to create a positive learning environment.
Developing Challenge in your Teaching
Learning & Teaching
This course will provide both the understanding of how a 'challenging' classroom environment can be shaped as well as the acquisition of tools with which to shape it upon your return. Delegates will have a chance to explore strategies for self-reflection and coaching as well as receiving fresh impetus to excel.
Developing Differentiation in the Classroom
Learning & Teaching
Many teachers are still finding the need to meet the needs of every kind of learner a time consuming and challenging obstacle. This course will offer a repertoire of ideas and strategies that will allow delegates to feel much more empowered in meeting the challenges that brings. Specifically it will look at overcoming barriers to learning by focusing heavily on images, language and 'doing'.
Developing Unique Learner Profiles
Learning & Teaching
This course will help us to understand the unique learner profile of each student and will give the approaches and strategies to enable us to personalise their learning and enable them to be successful in their learning journey.
Effective Processes for Professional Mentors to NQTS
Learning & Teaching
The role of the Professional Mentor is to guide newly qualified teachers through the first year of teaching after gaining qualified teacher status (QTS) to become effective teachers - and to help them build upon on their skills from initial training. The aim should be to provide a strong base for career-long professional development through a personalised programme of professional guidance and support, together with assessment against national standards.
Engaging the Disengaged
Learning & Teaching
This course will provide strategies that staff can use with the increasingly large numbers of students in mainstream classrooms who appear disaffected and disengaged.
It will give staff the skills to develop rapport with students and outline how to develop positive learning environments where all learners can be successful. It will show how we can manage difficult and challenging behaviours. The emphasis of the day will be on providing practical strategies and interventions.
It will give staff the skills to develop rapport with students and outline how to develop positive learning environments where all learners can be successful. It will show how we can manage difficult and challenging behaviours. The emphasis of the day will be on providing practical strategies and interventions.
Engaging the Vocational Learner in to 14-19 Curriculum: Preparing for 14-19 Learning Reforms
Learning & Teaching
With 14-19 diplomas learners now having more options and choices, it is at this crucial time that schools will need to maintain traditional learning pathways yet be equipped to develop and manage new and more diverse vocational and industry led routes. Diplomas promote diversity and provide new opportunities through industry - with relevant applied and specialised learning now much more readily available. Are you embracing the challenges this will bring?
Essential Oils for Teaching Creatively
Learning & Teaching
At the time we first set out to become teachers, often inspired by individuals that made such a difference to us in our youth, little did we know how dramatically society would change and present us with so many unforeseeable challenges - when imparting knowledge to a roomful of teenagers is challenging enough.
This course sets out to openly discuss these challenges and provide an armoury of new skills to help teachers deal with the stresses they face in the teaching environment.
This course sets out to openly discuss these challenges and provide an armoury of new skills to help teachers deal with the stresses they face in the teaching environment.
Facing the Challenge - Moving Behaviour to "Good" or "Outstanding"
Learning & Teaching
Tackling bad behaviour and reducing incidents of persistent disruptive behaviour has been identified by the Schools Secretary as a priority. An official 'Satisfactory' ranking for behaviour by Inspectors will be unacceptable by 2012. This course will show how staff can improve learning behaviour in their institutions, analyse the impact of behaviour on learning and will provide ways to help them move behaviour to "Good" or "Outstanding".
Getting to Grips with Interactive Whiteboards
Learning & Teaching
This introductory course will focus upon the use of Interactive Whiteboards in learning and teaching. The tutor will demonstrate the full range of techniques for using IWBs and provide plenty of ‘hands on’ time for participants to try things out for themselves. We will also look at ways of adapting ICT resources for use with IWBs. 5. Aims of the course: To make teachers aware of the potential of Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) in teaching. To develop the necessary skills to operate an IWB. To show how existing ICT resources can be adapted for IWB use.
Grab Their Attention: How To Make Every Lesson Engaging & Interactive So Your Pupils Will Beg For More
Learning & Teaching
Ask most teenagers what they did in school today and the reply will be something along the lines of "Nothin'". Ask most primary age children the same question and they will tell you of the fun they've had and the fantastic new things they've discovered. Education and learning needs to be both FUN and RELEVANT to pupils' lives if they are to be fully engaged and maximise their potential to assimilate new information.
Harnessing the Power of Homework
Learning & Teaching
OfSTED reports that the opportunities presented within the setting and assessment of homework are often not maximised. Opportunities for extending learning, building upon higher order thinking and the development of real research skills are often missed.
This course will provide delegates with not only the rationale behind using homework as an effective tool to revise, reinforce and extend classroom learning but also give guidelines on developing a whole school approach that will enable the setting of homework to complement the teaching for learning process.
This course will provide delegates with not only the rationale behind using homework as an effective tool to revise, reinforce and extend classroom learning but also give guidelines on developing a whole school approach that will enable the setting of homework to complement the teaching for learning process.
How to Accelerate Learning Using Interactive Whiteboards to Improve Teaching and Learning
Learning & Teaching
The increasing use of interactive whiteboards in schools is giving teachers the opportunity to develop a much richer variety of experiences for their pupils. There is now an opportunity to utilise a whole range of stimuli to enhance the learning experience. This is leading to far greater engagement and interest. It is now much easier to reach all kinds of learners and employ methods and tasks that match their learning style and suit all the multiple intelligences.
How to Coach Students and Improve Performance - Fast!
Learning & Teaching
Many teachers, mentors and support staff want to play a significant role in boosting performance and unlocking potential. Effective coaching is proven to help learners become more confident, self-aware and successful. It can also create fast and lasting positive changes both inside and outside the classroom. This "must-do" session will deliver absolutely everything you need to know to get started with coaching.
How to Coach Teachers to "Good" and "Outstanding" - Fast
Learning & Teaching
Would you like to help your colleagues deliver even more good and outstanding lessons? Do you want to learn about a coaching system that's been tried, tested and proven to dramatically improve teaching, progress and results?
This jam-packed day will fast-track you through this "Magic Formula" and give you plenty of usuful tips and tools so you can get started immediartely. We'll show you exactly what your school needs to implement for maximum coaching impact - AND the costly mistakes you need to avoid.
This jam-packed day will fast-track you through this "Magic Formula" and give you plenty of usuful tips and tools so you can get started immediartely. We'll show you exactly what your school needs to implement for maximum coaching impact - AND the costly mistakes you need to avoid.
How to Develop Cover in my School and Become a Skilled & Effective Cover Supervisor
Learning & Teaching
The development of effective cover arrangements and a skilled cover supervision team will become an increasingly important asset for schools. Cover supervisors are cost effective, and as valued members of staff can contribute significantly to better behaviour and learning in what has traditionally been a difficult area in schools.
This practical course takes a twin-track approach, looking at the context in which cover takes place (the systems, policies and resources) and the cover skills that supervisors need. Delegates will benefit from a focus on both these areas
This practical course takes a twin-track approach, looking at the context in which cover takes place (the systems, policies and resources) and the cover skills that supervisors need. Delegates will benefit from a focus on both these areas
How to promote success in Learning Mentor Teams through high quality management practices
Learning & Teaching
The work of Learning Mentors presents unique management challenges. Managing a team of nonteaching practitioners in a continuously developing service requires diplomacy, pragmatism and a good awareness of existing educational culture.
How to Teach an Outstanding Lesson
Learning & Teaching
The course is designed to examine what constitutes an outstanding lesson. The course offers practical suggestions for you to use in the classroom to enhance the quality of teaching and learning and to share best practice. Attendees will also review the requirements for outstanding lessons.
How to use Group Work to Raise Self-Esteem, Build Confidence and Improve Behaviour and Social Skills
Learning & Teaching
Managing group work can be a challenging activity - and it needs to be well planned, relevant and appropriate for different age groups of students. Group facilitators need to feel confident that they are equipped with the strategies and techniques to manage a range of potential responses which students may have to particular activities.
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Brighton
East Sussex
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