ABOUT DRAGONFLY TRAINING
Dragonfly Training was founded in 1999 and since then has grown to become one of the market leaders in offering training courses for teachers and has established an excellent reputation nationally for providing inspiring, realistic and practical training.
We are committed to deliver training of the highest quality. All our courses come with comprehensive materials that can be used in the classroom the very next day. Our courses provide teachers with inspirational ideas, lesson plans, time saving information and tried and tested strategies for improving the quality of learning. We aim to spread best practice, stop re-inventing the wheel and offer excellent value for money.
Our fundamental principle is that all our courses are practical. We give our delegates hands-on experience of their chosen area of interest to engage, inspire and motivate; we practice what we preach.
Dragonfly Training employs only the best trainers. All our trainers are highly skilled and experienced in their particular field and they still teach in the classroom on either a full or part time basis. They are therefore practitioners rather than theorists whose knowledge of education is first hand and hence their ideas, lessons and techniques are entirely relevant and can be adopted by any teacher.
Dragonfly Training Team
Stephen Chapman
(Managing Director)
Stephen Chapman is the Managing Director of Dragonfly Training and has delivered training courses at hundreds of schools in the UK. He has studied in the universities of Liverpool and Cambridge and taught at schools in Kenya, the Caribbean, the USA and as Head of Department at a large London Comprehensive for several years. He was a specially selected member of the Richmond Borough School Improvement Task Force. He is starting to write his long awaited book on education and is well known for his practical and sometimes slightly controversial views. He ensures that he remains in touch with classroom practice by working in a local school.
Mary Elderkin
(Director)
Mary Elderkin is the other Managing Director of Dragonfly Training. Mary is not in the office as much as Steve Chapman as she continues to teach International Baccalaureate English at a local school, however she is involved with us on a regular basis working on advertisements, timetabling and ongoing ideas for future training. Mary used to be a French teacher but was lured to teaching English whilst teaching abroad. Mary is a calm resolute character who helps calm Steve down when he "goes off on one"!
Carwyn Lewis
(Finance Manager)
Carwyn has worked in the Accounts Department for the past two years, originally joining on a temp contract but as the workload increased so have Carwyn's hours. This seems to be a typical pattern for him; after taking a degree in Physical Education, Carwyn worked for AA Insurance to earn some money for the Summer and ended up staying for the next 17 years! He now is in charge of the accounts department.
