Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This brand-new course offers the opportunity for high-quality professional development within a smaller group setting.  The course is designed to be fully interactive: key ideas are introduced in the Keynote Sessions, and then worked through via discussion-based workshops, allowing you to think about how the learning from the day can be applied within your own context.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

A great opportunity to reflect on your current practice and find innovative ways to upskill and refine your approaches.  The interactive and discussion-based nature of the day also creates an ideal way to meet with people from other schools, network and share best practice.

PROGRAMME

Keynote Session 1: What can we learn from the latest child-development research?

10.00am

• The adolescent brain
• The interaction between school messaging and innate developmental tendencies
• Competing influences: parents, friends, teachers

Break

11.00pm

Workshop 1: what do we want to achieve and how are we going to do it?

11.20pm

• Getting the most from form-time and assemblies
• What can be achieved within extra-curricular provision?
• Improving interaction between the school and families

Lunch

12.30pm

Keynote Session 2: 70-75% of school time is spent in the classroom – how core teaching and learning shapes development not just curriculum outcomes

1.00pm

• Developing of sense of self in the classroom
• Embedding a value-system
• Responding to feedback

Break

2.00pm

Workshop 2: Practical initiatives for classroom practice

2.20pm

• In lessons: who speaks, when and how?
• Effective role-modelling: what does this look like in a classroom setting?
• Choosing the values that get embedded every day

Conclusions

3:30pm

• Distilling the day’s ideas: what offers the maximum impact

Depart

3.40pm