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Leadership

Supercharging your Sessions

Course Code:
T0192
£289.00+vat

ABOUT THIS COURSE

As teachers, we try to build practical elements into our teaching in the hope it will help to bring our subjects to life, engage students, help them experience something or refine a skill. These activities can also develop students and help them grow. This course is designed to help you run your existing activities and practical sessions in new ways to build in opportunities to develop your students alongside building their knowledge.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

  • Confidently leave with easy to implement ideas for how you can re-imagine practical learning
  • Leave with renewed energy to try new ways to run your practical sessions
  • Better understand how and when people learn from their experiences
  • Leave with worked examples from your world to immediately and easily try

PROGRAMME

When is Learning at its Greatest?

10.00am
  • Explore experiential learning to set appropriate levels of challenge and support
  • The varying forms of experiential learning and their impact on individual development

How our thinking about Learning Experiences has developed over time

10.30am

  • Examine the evolution of practical activity usage and evaluate its merits and drawbacks
  • Review historical perspectives and current trends to extract valuable insights for implementation

Break

11.10am

Thinking strategically about experiential learning

11.30am
  • Consider the desired outcomes when planning activity approaches
  • Examine various factors affecting strategy choices and adapt them for optimal results

Factors That Affect the Strategy You Choose

12.00pm
  • Explore factors influencing the success of an activity
  • Guide decision-making in activity planning based on identified factors for improved success

Lunch

12.30pm

Worked Examples

1.30pm
  • Practical and proven strategies as worked examples – how they fit into your world

Changing Your Strategy to Solve Problems

2.00pm
  • Consider goals – provide more challenge, foster problem-solving skills, and build confidence
  • Utilise a proprietary matrix to select strategies that effectively target common student issues

A Practical Session using the Strategies

2.30pm

  • Engage in a hands-on practical session to re-plan current activities using various strategies
  • Explore different ways to approach existing activities to observe changes in group experiences

Break

3.05pm


Building Multi-Activity Days & Weeks Effectively

3.10pm

  • Explore the process of assembling individual sessions into impactful learning experiences
  • Discuss strategies for optimising timetabled breaks or weekly sessions to enhance learning

Depart

3.45pm



This course, tailored to suit, can be delivered in your school. Discuss this further with our CPD team on 01625 532974 or click below to make an enquiry.

COURSE LEADER

Tim Hudson is a leadership and development expert with particular interest in the education sector. Backed by a degree in management, he has worked with a wide variety of people, from aspiring student leaders to senior managers. In the past two years he has run in-house programmes developing leadership in teachers and pupils in HMC schools, including a pioneering year-long leadership course accredited by the ILM.

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • MATS, Trust and Alliance CEOs
  • Principals, Headteachers and Vice-Principals
  •  Senior Leadership Teams
  • School Governors
  • Personnel Managers
  • Heads of Safeguarding

THIS COURSE INCLUDES

  • A specially prepared folder of detailed notes, practical advice and guidance
  • Notes prepared by the educational experts leading the course
  • Expert produced PowerPoint presentations
  • CPD Certificate of attendance

Description

ABOUT THIS COURSE

As teachers, we try to build practical elements into our teaching in the hope it will help to bring our subjects to life, engage students, help them experience something or refine a skill. These activities can also develop students and help them grow. This course is designed to help you run your existing activities and practical sessions in new ways to build in opportunities to develop your students alongside building their knowledge.


BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

  • Confidently leave with easy to implement ideas for how you can re-imagine practical learning
  • Leave with renewed energy to try new ways to run your practical sessions
  • Better understand how and when people learn from their experiences
  • Leave with worked examples from your world to immediately and easily try

PROGRAMME

When is Learning at its Greatest?

10.00am

  • Explore experiential learning to set appropriate levels of challenge and support
  • The varying forms of experiential learning and their impact on individual development

How our thinking about Learning Experiences has developed over time

10.30am

  • Examine the evolution of practical activity usage and evaluate its merits and drawbacks
  • Review historical perspectives and current trends to extract valuable insights for implementation

Break

11.10am


Thinking strategically about experiential learning

11.30am

  • Consider the desired outcomes when planning activity approaches
  • Examine various factors affecting strategy choices and adapt them for optimal results

Factors That Affect the Strategy You Choose

12.00pm

  • Explore factors influencing the success of an activity
  • Guide decision-making in activity planning based on identified factors for improved success

Lunch

12.30pm


Worked Examples

1.30pm

  • Practical and proven strategies as worked examples – how they fit into your world

Changing Your Strategy to Solve Problems

2.00pm

  • Consider goals – provide more challenge, foster problem-solving skills, and build confidence
  • Utilise a proprietary matrix to select strategies that effectively target common student issues

A Practical Session using the Strategies

2.30pm

  • Engage in a hands-on practical session to re-plan current activities using various strategies
  • Explore different ways to approach existing activities to observe changes in group experiences

Break

3.05pm


Building Multi-Activity Days & Weeks Effectively

3.10pm

  • Explore the process of assembling individual sessions into impactful learning experiences
  • Discuss strategies for optimising timetabled breaks or weekly sessions to enhance learning

Depart

3.45pm


Additional information

Location and Date

London | Monday 09 December 2024, Manchester | Thursday 21 November 2024

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