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.
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Study Skills across the Curriculum: Raising Achievement for Examination Success
Learning & Teaching
The day is designed to give class teachers an opportunity to incorporate study skills in subject lessons, and thus increase the effectiveness of their teaching. Topics covered will relate to raising literacy skills, listening skills, note taking, note making, revision, proof reading and examination techniques. The sessions will enable teachers to provide students with practical help regarding effective study and a positive approach to examinations. The course will be lively and stimulating, with teacher participation an important element in their problem solving structure.
Surviving and Thriving as a NQT
Learning & Teaching
NQTs are the life-blood of the profession, yet currently, 40% of all NQTs leave within the first 5 years of starting the job. The 2 reasons they most commonly give for leaving are;
1. Pupils' poor behaviour
2. Endless bureaucracy such as lesson planning, marking, assessment, etc.
You will leave this course knowing exactly what should and should not happen in an Induction Year and with loads of tips on effective behaviour management and classroom management to ensure you both survive and thrive to become a fully qualified teacher.
1. Pupils' poor behaviour
2. Endless bureaucracy such as lesson planning, marking, assessment, etc.
You will leave this course knowing exactly what should and should not happen in an Induction Year and with loads of tips on effective behaviour management and classroom management to ensure you both survive and thrive to become a fully qualified teacher.
Talk as a Tool for Learning: Using the Power of Talk to Unlock Active Learning
Learning & Teaching
Everyone should leave with a better understanding of the skills which need to be taught in order for students to be proficient in communicating in education and life; as well as a wider repertoire of strategies to use in the classroom to encourage purposeful, interactive learning and thereby raise standards.
Aims of the course are to:
* A clear understanding of the skills needed for successful talk and discussion
* Help teachers to establish a classroom climate for talk
Aims of the course are to:
* A clear understanding of the skills needed for successful talk and discussion
* Help teachers to establish a classroom climate for talk
Teaching and Learning Styles
Learning & Teaching
The classroom teacher has a vital influence upon attainment and therefore the key to school improvement must be to improve the quality of teaching. This course aims to explore the importance of learning styles, assessment techniques and effective teaching strategies in raising pupil attainment.
Teaching in Another Dimension: Dynamic Classroom Approaches to Globalisation and Sustainable Development
Learning & Teaching
This highly interactive course will give delegates an opportunity to explore in detail the practical aspects of approaching 'the global dimension and sustainable development' cross curricular dimension.
Terrific Tutoring and Academic Mentoring
Learning & Teaching
Delegates will learn usable and tangible tools that can be easily implemented in the classroom and will examine four key areas:
(1) The principles of what makes an effective tutor
(2) Building upon your existing skills of communication; verbal and non-verbal. This CPD day will also cover relationship building strategies; both in terms of the teacher and pupils as well as helping the tutor improve peer relationships within the group
(3) Behaviour management and how to deal with the day to day instances which occur within a tutor group
(1) The principles of what makes an effective tutor
(2) Building upon your existing skills of communication; verbal and non-verbal. This CPD day will also cover relationship building strategies; both in terms of the teacher and pupils as well as helping the tutor improve peer relationships within the group
(3) Behaviour management and how to deal with the day to day instances which occur within a tutor group
The Creative Curriculum: New Approaches to Integrated Learning
Learning & Teaching
Delegates will have a clear understanding of the creativity agenda and be equipped to plan creative lessons. The tutor will discuss detailed examples of cross-curricular projects that will inspire delegates to explore the opportunities for collaboration in their own schools.
The Expert Learner
Learning & Teaching
The course is designed to examine what constitutes an expert learner. Delegates will leave the course with a clear understanding of what is needed to create an expert learner - and to incorporate ideas into their teaching and cascade them effectively through the department.
The day will enable you to reflect on the quality of the learning environment and set professional targets to demonstrate outstanding learning. Suzanne will provide you with all the necessary tools and information necessary to ensure OfSTED commends the learning environment as Outstanding.
The day will enable you to reflect on the quality of the learning environment and set professional targets to demonstrate outstanding learning. Suzanne will provide you with all the necessary tools and information necessary to ensure OfSTED commends the learning environment as Outstanding.
The Outstanding NQT
Learning & Teaching
By attending this course delegates will come away with a clear understanding of how to plan, deliver and build upon an outstanding lesson. More importantly it will be in such a way that it will recognise national criteria whilst allowing the teacher to make it 'theirs'.
Utilising a variety of techniques delegates will also be shown how to maximise the teaching environment - rather than feel constrained by it - and how to control or 'own' the space.
Utilising a variety of techniques delegates will also be shown how to maximise the teaching environment - rather than feel constrained by it - and how to control or 'own' the space.
Think Differently: How Science can Revolutionise Classroom Learning
Learning & Teaching
There is a growing interest within education in neuroscientific research, and what it means for our students and our classrooms. This course will present key concepts in learning, memory, intelligence and motivation. It will deconstruct common learning disabilities (dyslexia, ADHD etc) and address how new research can be applied to teaching and curriculum design.
Thinking Skills & Creative Problem Solving: How to use them in everyday classroom teaching
Learning & Teaching
Thinking, and thinking creatively, is a natural function. So what is it that gets in the way that stops this natural process from working? In a school system in which it is reputed that some teachers ask 90% of the questions and also answer a similar amount, there is a culture which doesn't promote this process.
By looking at the barriers to thinking and then creating ways of removing them we can then look to formulating a system where thinking skills become entwined and an integral part of the curriculum.
By looking at the barriers to thinking and then creating ways of removing them we can then look to formulating a system where thinking skills become entwined and an integral part of the curriculum.
Turning Goldfish into Elephants: A toolbox of practical classroom memory improvement strategies to enhance learning and exam revision
Learning & Teaching
This course will enable delegates to learn and develop strategies to improve both school teaching and home learning activities, and will provide a range of materials than can be disseminated to colleagues and students.
At the end of the course delegates will have a basic understanding of how their memory works and will appreciate the importance of memory processes in determining how information is retained by students - and why some teaching methods work better than others.
At the end of the course delegates will have a basic understanding of how their memory works and will appreciate the importance of memory processes in determining how information is retained by students - and why some teaching methods work better than others.
Using Technology Cost Effectively
Learning & Teaching
For teachers and learners technology can offer savings. Because online resources are widely available they can deliver personalised and differentiated learning cheaply. Their adaptability supports independent learning and in doing so reduces the cost of providing alternative formats and learning support. This flexibility can improve efficiency and sustainability at the same time as being cost-effective.
Decision Making in Secondary School Libraries
Learning Resource Centre
This course will outline how to apply rational decision making to the school library. There will be a discussion between the differences of statistical and more qualitative evidence. As part of the rational approach to decision making, the collection and use of appropriate evidence based on agreed goals and standards and collaboration will be a key factor.
By the end of the day delegates will be able to plan a way forward with rational decision making in the secondary school library situation.
By the end of the day delegates will be able to plan a way forward with rational decision making in the secondary school library situation.
Effective Teaching Skills for Library Staff
Learning Resource Centre
Library staff are now expected to teach a variety of topics from induction to research skills. Although it is impossible to learn how to teach in one day, this course will give library staff the basic skills needed to plan an effective, targeted lesson.
The training will help you explore practical differentiation, help you to produce interesting and relevant activities and will also help you to successfully navigate assessment and evaluation requirements.
The training will help you explore practical differentiation, help you to produce interesting and relevant activities and will also help you to successfully navigate assessment and evaluation requirements.
How to Manage Challenging & Obstructive Behaviour: LRC Staff
Learning Resource Centre
Library and other support staff in school libraries now have to deal with inappropriate behaviour from a variety of people including pupils, visitors, parents and even colleagues.
This is an interactive course in which delegates will learn and practise a variety of techniques, whilst understanding some of the psychology that explains why people act as they do.
This is an interactive course in which delegates will learn and practise a variety of techniques, whilst understanding some of the psychology that explains why people act as they do.
Information Literacy: A Whole-School Approach
Learning Resource Centre
The course will look in detail at how pupils can be best coached to ask questions, find resources, choose appropriate information then present it appropriately to the required audience. Attendees will see how this structured method is flexible enough to apply to all areas of the curriculum - and all abilities of pupil - and will form the basis of a crucial life skill. The chosen method will be unique to your school, yet based on solid and practical principles.
Information Skills to Improve Your Learning Resource Centre
Learning Resource Centre
This course will show you how to achieve a balance between the use of ICT and traditional learning strategies and resources. The day will help you build on the qualities of your LRC and help make it work for you. The training will also show you how to develop your own cross-curricular Information Skills Programme - and interpret the Information Skills strand of the National Curriculum.
Library Resource Centre Staff: Evaluating and Recording Informal Learning
Learning Resource Centre
Recognising and recording progression and achievement through informal or non-accredited learning activities contribute to a student's overall personal development. The role that the LRC plays in this development can be overlooked and the value-added nature of the library and learning resource centre may be hard to quantify. This course will focus on a framework 'Inspiring Learning for All' which provides a practical and simple framework to enable LRC staff to evaluate their impact on learning and to demonstrate their contribution to the curriculum.
LRC Staff: Working with Special Educational Needs Students
Learning Resource Centre
Students with Special Educational Needs, whether diagnosed or not, are thought to form over 30% of the school population. Many staff in LRCs have been given little training on the identification of students' individual needs - or strategies for working with such students - even though almost all students use the LRC. Incidents may happen because staff do not recognise individual needs or the best ways of working with the students. Moreover, recent legislation has made it essential that all school and college staff are aware of their responsibilities to these students.
Managing an Outstanding LRC on a limited budget
Learning Resource Centre
The course is relevant to anyone seeking to develop or rejuvenate an LRC on a limited budget. Delegates will be equipped to use OfSted criteria and a simple framwork for self-evaluation to create an outstanding LRC with the capacity for continuous improvement, whilst paying close attention to the management for costs and demonstration of value.
Managing the Environment and Behaviour for Improved Learning Outcomes in the LRC
Learning Resource Centre
The course will focus on strategies to effectively manage pupil behaviour using a holistic approach to improve learning outcomes. It will set out clear design principles to improve the environment within the LRC in order to minimise opportunities for disruptive behvaiour at minimum cost.
Managing the Self-evaluation Process in the Secondary School Library Resource Centre
Learning Resource Centre
This course will help you gauge the extent to which the Library Resource Centre contributes to and impacts upon, teaching and learning within the school. Through practical sessions, group work and dissemination of information we will explore ways of using the Self-Evaluation Framework to support the development of the Library Resource Centre.
Simple and Effective Strategies to Market your School LRC
Learning Resource Centre
Simple and proven strategies which will equip you to develop an LRC which accurately reflects the needs of your school, raising levels of use and increasing funding to meet curriculum objectives identified by LRC staff in conjunction with teachers and senior leaders. Delegates will be able to promote the key roles of the LRC in relation to literacy and the curriculum and demonstrate how the LRC contributes to raised levels of student attainment.
Steps to Success in Managing an Outstanding LRC
Learning Resource Centre
The course is aimed at non-specialist and recently appointed staff, but is relevant to anyone seeking to develop or rejuvenate an LRC. Delegates will be equipped to use the OfSTED criteria and a simple framework for self-evaluation to create an outstanding LRC with the capacity for continuous improvement.
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Brighton
East Sussex
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