Primary Transformation
Training
For teachers and support staff
- Play based learning — Theory into practice
- 'To Infinity…… ……and Beyond'
How to develop inspirational learning and teaching - Creating the Emotionally Supportive Learning Environment
- Gender and Achievement, Gender and Behaviour
- Accelerated Memory Techniques
- Multiple Intelligences
- Creative Curriculum
- Using Music to Enhance Learning
- Milestone Celebrations
- Magic and Mystery
- Laughter and Learning
- Assessment for Learning
- Developing a Teaching and Learning Policy
- The Independent Learner
- First Steps into Leadership
- Time Management
- Project Management
Play based learning — Theory into practice
With this input you will:
- Explore and define what we mean by play
- Learn how to introduce Creative Role Play beyond the Foundation Stage
- Find out how to use more drama and role play in the classroom
- Learn how to create play based learning opportunities for all your children through a creative curriculum
- Find out how other European countries use play for learning
- Experience a play based inset day that will help you see how much fun learning through play can be!
'To Infinity…… ……and Beyond'
How to develop inspirational learning and teaching
With this input you will explore:
- Emotional Literacy
- How to create highly motivated learners
- The importance of classroom organisation
- Tone of voice and body language and how to use it effectively
- Humour in the classroom
- How to create a sense of Magic and Mystery in your teaching
- Gender and how to manage it
- How to use music to enhance learning for your children
- The characteristics of 'Good Lessons' and how to achieve them yourself
- Formative assessment and how to incorporate it as a normal part of every lesson
- Plenary sessions that involve every child in an interactive, multisensory way
Links: the 10 Tips page for more inspiring ideas.
Creating the Emotionally Supportive Learning Environment
With this input you will:
- Gain an understanding of why self esteem matters for the young learner
- Increase your repertoire of great ideas to raise self esteem for your children
- Develop a deeper understanding of the importance of reward, recognition and celebration and how to incorporate it into your daily practice
- Learn about Milestone Celebrations and how to use them
- Find out how to incorporate Magic and Mystery into your teaching repertoire
Links: Milestone Celebrations and Magic and Mystery
Gender and Achievement, Gender and Behaviour
With this input you will:
- Explore the neurological differences between the male and female brain and the way they are 'wired' from birth
- Look at some of the differences in the ways boys and girls develop from birth to 11
- Gain a greater understanding of boys as learners
- Gain a greater understanding of girls as learners
- Identify some of the reasons why boys' behaviour is more problematic than girls' and what you can do about it
- Develop strategies which improve boys' willingness to learn and also improve their attitudes and behaviour
Accelerated Memory Techniques
With this input you will:
- Discover that you have an amazing memory!
- Learn how to improve your own memory
- Learn how to help your children develop memory 'tricks' to help them retain information better
- Explore how to use Memory Mapping as a technique in the classroom
- Improve the attainment and achievement levels of your children
Links: Assessment for Learning, The Independent Learner
Multiple Intelligences
With this input you will:
- Find out what multiple intelligence means
- Discover what your own multiple intelligence profile looks like
- Learn how to apply multiple intelligence in the school context
- Develop a strategy for the identification of and provision for children's particular aptitudes based on multiple intelligence
Creative Curriculum
Let me help you bring the Rose proposals to life in your school. Find out how to extend the Foundation Stage across both Key Stages, incorporate the use of Skills Continuums and introduce more play based learning.
- Incorporate the use of Skills Continuums
- Find out how to extend the Foundation Stage across both Key Stages
- Look at ways of developing cross curricular learning and teaching
- Find out why creativity matters for our children
- Explore learning for the 21st Century child
- See of examples of what other schools are doing
- Throw off the shackles of convention and be more creative
- Explore creativity in the curriculum, the environment, in teaching and learning and in people
- Create a vibrant, exciting school experience for your children
- Leave with dozens of creative ideas to try in your own school
- Introduce more play based learning
- Let me help you bring the curriculum to life in your school
Download Sir Jim Rose's Primary Curriculum Report from here [3.2 Mb PDF]
Using Music to Enhance Learning
With this input you will:
- Explore the background into how music can enhance the learning experience of the primary child
- Be given dozens of practical examples of how you can use music in the classroom
- Have time to experiment with a range of music to identify what may be useful in your own practice
Milestone Celebrations
With this input you will:
- Explore the milestones children achieve whilst they are at school
- Begin to understand the importance children place on these milestones
- Raise children's self esteem and improve behaviour
- Develop a range of milestone celebrations to suit your children and your school that will enhance your existing reward, recognition and celebration procedures
Magic and Mystery
With this input you will:
- Gain an understanding of children's natural fascination with all things magical, fantastic and mysterious
- Learn a range of strategies for incorporating magic and mystery into your daily classroom practice
- Learn how to really inspire your children by creating awe and wonder for them as a normal part of your regular teaching repertoire
Laughter and Learning
With this input you will:
- Have a great time as we explore laughter, fun and humour and why these things are important both in life and in school
- Reduce your own stress levels
- Discover how to inject a sense of fun into all aspects of learning for your children
- Develop a wide range of strategies for improving the atmosphere of learning in your classroom
Assessment for Learning
With this input you will:
- Explore different types of assessment and their impact upon children as learners
- Have time to get up to date with the most recent research on assessment for learning and how to apply this to your own practice
- Find out why formative assessment is the way forward in the primary classroom
- Gain a deeper understanding of assessment, marking and feedback and how they are linked
Links: Independent Learner, Accelerated Memory
Developing a Teaching and Learning Policy
Once you and the staff in your school have come to an agreement about how you believe children learn most effectively and those agreements are evident in practice its time to commit this practice into a policy statement that sets out clearly the principles and practices of teaching and learning that exist in your school.
With this input you will:
- Explore every aspect of your school's philosophy of teaching and learning and examine the school's vision statement to see if it truly represents what you all believe
- Develop a rationale for everything you do
- Come to an agreement about expectations and aspirations
- Develop a deeper understanding of how children learn and why they sometimes fail
- Reach whole school agreement on all aspects of classroom organisation and management
- Create a detailed and comprehensive teaching and learning policy for your school
The Independent Learner
With this input you will:
- Explore the characteristics of the effective independent learner
- Identify what you currently do to encourage independence in your classroom
- Develop a range of strategies to help your children become independent, effective learners
Links: Accelerated Memory, Assessment for Learning
First Steps into Leadership
With this input you will:
- Examine the key characteristics of leadership and management and how to develop them
- Improve your time management skills
- Learn about the importance of project management
- Learn the importance of motivation and how to motivate others
- Learn how to take people with you
- Develop organisational skills and techniques
- Learn how to manage the increased demands you will face
- Learn how important it is to be an exemplary role model for those you lead and then — how to do it!
- Find out how to move smoothly into your new role as though you were born to it!
Links: Time Management, Project Management
Time Management
With this input you will:
- Carry out a self evaluation of your own management of time
- Gain an understanding of some of the techniques you can use to improve your own time management
- Learn how to find time to do more of the things you want to do rather than spending all your time doing the things you have to do
- Learn how to fit everything in
- Become the master of your workload rather than the servant
Links: First Steps into Leadership, Project Management
Project Management
With this input you will:
- Find out what project management is
- Find out why project management matters to the primary teacher and how you can apply it to any project, large or small, that you are involved in
- Learn about the project management continuum and how to use it
- Learn how to deliver intended projects on time, on budget and to the standard expected
Links: First Steps into Leadership, Time Management
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