Active Engagement Strategies – Whole-School INSETPrintEmail

Course Description:

This INSET will deliver a practical approach to enhancing Teaching & Learning in EVERY classroom in your school. The ‘real world’ approach will cover aspects of all Government strategies – and more!!! Included in the day will be activities that encompass elements of:

• Assessment for Learning.
• The National Strategy.
• (National Curriculum) Thinking Skills.
• Enterprise Learning.
• Revision Techniques.
• Emotional Intelligence – Creating a Positive Climate for Learning.
• Every Child Matters.

This INSET will also give your staff a toolbox of strategies for supporting special needs students, extending the more able and taking care of those ‘in between’. The day is an active one that will provide activities for all learning styles and is supported by a booklet that has many examples for ALL SUBJECT areas. Examples on the day will come from: English, Science, Maths, Humanities, Art, PE, PHSE and Languages. It is a dedicated ‘hands on’ experience.

Course structure:

Stacey can structure all sessions to suit your School Development Plan, recent OFSTED report or any other strategic planning you are working within. This is a highly flexible day.

This course can be easily adapted for post-16 establishments.

Price reduction for half day or twilight session.

COURSE OUTLINE
Session 1: Starters & Plenaries

This session will demonstrate:
• A variety of activities that require LITTLE to NO preparation
• Ways to engage students from the moment they walk through the door until the second they leave
• A demonstration of why starters and plenaries are essential in raising achievement
• A wide variety of inclusive activities to develop Thinking Skills

For example:
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Noughts & Crosses
- Odd One Out +1
- Guess What’s In My Head!
- Quiz, Quiz Trade
Session 2: Structured Thinking Activities

This session will cover:
• Ways of helping students organise their thoughts, see other people’s points of view and reflect on how they learn
• Fully inclusive activities that are easy to prepare, easy to deliver but have maximum results.
• Activities that are transferable across the curriculum and encourage many elements of the statutory Enterprise Learning requirement

For example:
- Hyerle’s Thinking Maps. (Thinking frames).
- The Circle of Blame. (A tool for structured debate)
- 6-Hat Thinking (made easy!) (Evaluative decision-making)
- Mind-Mapping ©
- MI5. (How to facilitate structured discussion)
Session 3: Revision Strategies for Different Learning Styles

This session will provide staff with activities that will make revision lessons more fun and beneficial to both staff and students.

For example:
- See, Run, Do. (Group kinaesthetic memory technique)
- SEAHORSE. (Individual kinaesthetic memory technique)
- The Code of Learning. (A very effective revision technique!)
- Home-Expert Wheels. (A strategy for creating & organising revision notes)