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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Skills for Learning - There's more to Vision than Seeing
NQTs
This course introduces you to the complexity and simplicity of vision. It introduces you to essential tools that will improve vision and hearing, co-ordination for reading, listening and thinking; eye-hand co-ordination for drawing and writing; eye-teaming binocularity and convergence.
Surviving your first year in the Science Lab
NQTs
To offer tried and tested tips for managing challenging pupil behaviour; to provide practical strategies for effective laboratory management; to offer advice on maximising motivation and ensuring success for all pupils in science; and to support delegates in planning to manage their own professional development.
Using Whiteboards and Accelerated Learning Techniques
NQTs
This course is designed to be of relevance to all teachers of middle and secondary school pupils - as the techniques and principles the speaker demonstrates will help you bring real benefits to teaching and learning into all your lessons.
A Consistent Approach to Managing Behaviour at Post-16: From Low Level to Challenging & Obstructive
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
A number of students in Sixth Form and FE Colleges bring with them a negative attitude which manifests itself as low level and challenging behaviour and disengagement. This course will give practical strategies to manage this low level challenge & will look at ways of achieving consistency in managing a range of behaviours.
The course will also look at ways of improving motivation & engagement through creating positive learning environments.
The course will also look at ways of improving motivation & engagement through creating positive learning environments.
Active Listening: People Management
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Active listening is a powerful tool. It involves accurate perception and memory. However this is not enough to interpret meaning which relies on the more subtle interaction of verbal and non verbal communication. This course is crucial if you are to appreciate what people really mean. You will then be able to use that knowledge and understanding to help them and yourself to realise your full potential. There are differences between listening and active listening. Active listening requires self awareness and acceptance.
Addressing Eating Disorders and Improving Self Image
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Eating Disorders affect more young people, seriously decreasing their ability to learn and function within their relationships at school and at home. This course uncovers the relationship with poor self image and low esteem and eating disorders.
The psychological reasons why young people adopt these extreme behaviours will be outlined, enabling early detection leading to quicker resolution. Clear, proven, methods of helping these young people to come to terms with their problems will be outlined - enabling delegates to feel more positive in helping
The psychological reasons why young people adopt these extreme behaviours will be outlined, enabling early detection leading to quicker resolution. Clear, proven, methods of helping these young people to come to terms with their problems will be outlined - enabling delegates to feel more positive in helping
Advanced Counselling Skills
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
This course aims to offer you the opportunity of experiencing different counselling theories and practices that can be used in schools. It aims to help you to build your confidence and emotional intelligence in dealing with pupils' issues and concerns. At the end of the day you should feel more able to bridge any gaps between yourself and the students.
Advanced Counselling Skills for Teachers & Support Staff
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
This course is aimed at teachers that already have experience of counselling students and/or have attended Jeanie’s introductory Lighthouse course ‘Practical Counselling Skills for Teachers’. It aims to give you more confidence when counselling students.
This course is currently active
This is an active course and may have events scheduled. Visit the course page to see if there are any available.
This is an active course and may have events scheduled. Visit the course page to see if there are any available.
Am I bovvered...?
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
This course aims to heighten awareness of the influence of youth culture on the ability of today's learners to access education and to address these issues in terms of practical applications in the classroom. The course will make specific reference to '2020 Vision: Report of the Teaching and Learning in 2020 review group' and investigate how these findings can be used to make impacts on day-to-day classroom and lesson management.
Anti-Bullying Strategies
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
On previous courses it has become increasingly apparent that not only do delegates lack strategies for helping pupils who complain of bullying behaviours, teachers themselves feel increasingly threatened. They cite pupils, parents and colleagues as perpetrators of this distress. This course offers you a variety of successful strategies to raise personal self-esteem and to tackle aggressive behaviours directed towards you.
Behaviour - Meeting the Additional Needs of EBD Learners in Further Education
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Learners who have learning disabilities, mental health difficulties, ODD, EBD, ADHD, and other conditions, temporary or otherwise, can often present as challenging behaviour and so limit the learners' ability to access traditional educational streams. This course is designed to provide teachers and support staff with techniques for engaging 'difficult' learners and achieving positive responses, as well as offering alternative ways to behave.
Behaviour Education: Teaching Students the Rules & Skills of Working & Learning Together
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Behaviour education is a main strand of the Key Stage 3 National Strategy for Behaviour and Attendance and a foundation of good practice in schools. This practical course will show delegates how to build and deliver an inclusive and exciting behaviour education curriculum through subject teachers, tutors, citizenship and life-skills teams to teach students the rules and skills of working and learning together.
Behind the Tears: Effective Support for Students who arrive at School Disrupted, Confused and Angry
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Powerful emotions can disrupt a student's ability to engage in schoolwork and many students arrive at school disrupted, confused and angry. Also a number of students are bullied to such an extent that their lives are made a misery.
This course will look beyond the frustration and tears that these feelings generate and provide strategies which will enable students to feel emotionally supported and will provide the skills necessary for them to be successful.
This course will look beyond the frustration and tears that these feelings generate and provide strategies which will enable students to feel emotionally supported and will provide the skills necessary for them to be successful.
Challenge in Preventing & Responding to Cyber Bullying
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Internet and mobile technologies are an essential part of our everyday lives, and children and young people are enthusiastic users of these technologies. There are many educational and creative benefits associated with their use; however, the increased exposure of young people to these technologies undoubtedly raises many new challenges and questions.
Children in Crisis
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Children growing up in the twenty first century face critical situations which seriously threaten their mental and physical well being. Bereavement, divorce, war, domestic violence, terrorism, bullying and neglect are only some of the factors that impact on children's lives. When we recgnise the power of such events to influence feelings, behavior and academic performance we are better equipped to help and support pupils through critical incidents in their lives.
Coping with Loss Situations
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Young people encounter many situations where loss is involved from changing cirumstances, a breakdown in their own or parent's relationships, periods of low self-esteem to personal bereavement. Often their capacity to cope, with appropriate help, is not acknowledged. This course, based on work with young people of all ages and with adults who care for young people in different capacities, aims to provide a structure by which young people can develop their coping skills.
Creating and Maintaining a Protective Ethos Meeting and Building upon the Statutory Duties placed on Education Settings
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Since recent changes in legislation, schools and other education settings now have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This course provides information on the safeguarding responsibilities of schools and governors and how these should be fulfilled. It gives details on the benefits and essential components of a protective ethos - and how successful implementation will be of mutual benefit to children and staff.
Defusing Bullying Behaviours
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Complaints about teasing and bullying behaviours can take up a high proportion of teacher-pupil contact time. Often the only advice teachers feel able to give is "ignore bullies and they'll eventualy stop". Unfortunately research demonstrates this plainly isn't true. This course will show you techniques that really do work.
Developing More Effective Liaison & Pastoral Support with Difficult Parents, Carers and Self-supporting Students
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
This course will develop a greater understanding of the relationship between managers, teachers, support staff, parents and carers. Emphasis will be placed upon promoting delegate skills in dealing more effectively with demanding, over-assertive, angry, and reluctant parents, and how to involve them more positively in the education of their child or children.
Developing the Independent Learner at Post 16
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Post-16
We ascribe a level of maturity and an ability to study
independently on students in the post-16 phase which they find
difficulty in attaining. For many students time management is
difficult and they lack the necessary skills to r esearch and plan
their work.
This course is currently active
This is an active course and may have events scheduled. Visit the course page to see if there are any available.
This is an active course and may have events scheduled. Visit the course page to see if there are any available.
Eating their Hearts Out: Obesity to Anorexia
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
For many young people, food has become a way of controlling their environment and their lives. Childhood obesity is a serious problem with profound health and social consequences. It has received substantial media attention recently due partly to the rapid increase in prevalence across the UK as well as internationally. Current statistics suggest the prevalence of obesity in children is four times higher today than it was 30 years ago. Obesity in childhood is associated with numerous health and social consequences.
Effective Ways To Engage Families
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Engaging parents into school life is a challenging one for all involved in education. It has been well documented that there are lots of benefits for the child if schools and organisations can work in partnerships with their parents. Schools and organisations work hard in achieving this goal. This course is designed to provide strategies to help bridge the gap in a fun, active way.
Every Child Matters: Preventing Bullying in Schools
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Bullying causes particular misery and disruption to the learning of individual pupils according to the Steer Committee. Kidscape tells us that 1 in 12 children are so badly bullied that it affects their education. OfSTED suggest that bullying is a continuing problem and although many schools have policies in place little evaluation or monitoring takes place.
Girls will be Girls! Discover New Ways of Succeeding with Difficult and Vulnerable Girls
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
Most initiatives and resources to address school exclusion and inappropriate behaviour are largely designed for their most likely candidates - boys. There is growing concern among education professionals that many prevention and intervention strategies do not recognise the particular emotional and developmental needs of girls.
Handling Confrontation
Pastoral Care and Behaviour
This course is aimed at all staff who wish to further improve their skills in managing difficult and volatile situations, when dealing with students, parents, visitors or other adults.
The course aims to offer you the opportunity to explore a range of strategies, including preventitive solutions, to mange confrontation positively. It will help you practise and develop practical skills in de-escalating difficult situations, maintaining personal space and keeping things safe.
The course aims to offer you the opportunity to explore a range of strategies, including preventitive solutions, to mange confrontation positively. It will help you practise and develop practical skills in de-escalating difficult situations, maintaining personal space and keeping things safe.
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Brighton
East Sussex
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