Dragonfly Training Ltd

Courses for Teaching & Learning / Generic

• "Outstanding Teaching"

• • High impact strategies to energise, enthral and educate. Get to grips with what "Outstanding" really means; learn how to "tick the boxes" whilst maintaining your individual style; develop starters and plenaries with extra punch; learn how to get the very best out of group and pair work * FREE bumper pack of resources to use the very next day

  

• *The Realist’s Guide to Motivation & Behaviour

• • Rules, routines and rituals that will improve exam results due to improved pupil motivation. Practical steps to pre-empt "low level" disruption and "off task" behaviour.
  • Tried and tested techniques that are realistic not pie in the sky jargon.

  

• ‘You CAN do it. Go for promotion NOW!’

• • This highly practical and hard hitting new course led by the outstanding Karl Turner does exactly what it says on the tin. If you are thinking of going for promotion in any shape or form this is the course for you. as always Karl will not be ducking the difficult questions and will be giving superb practical advice.

  

• Developing Assessment for Learning (AfL)

• • Examine the very latest techniques in AFL, how to make AFL work in your school and build it into your Departmental planning. Examine AFL's link with formative assessment and learn how to maximise your use of both.

  

• How to be an Effective Subject Leader

• • A superb course for all aspiring or existing Heads of Department. This highly acclaimed course has received hundreds of extremely positive reviews from teachers and is a must for all those who function in this area.

  

• How To Be An Outstanding Member of an Independent School’s Senior Leadership Team

• • This course will take a practical look at the challenges and pressures facing current & aspiring members of a school’s leadership/management team It will cover the theoretical and philosophical elements of the role as well as the more prosaic and practical issues such as time and crisis management.

  

• How To Be An Outstanding Member of an Independent Schools - Middle Management Team

• • Middle Managers - at the sharp end of running Independent Schools, often finding themselves in post without any formal training & probably wearing many other hats in the school at the same time. It is little wonder that they frequently find themselves worn out & frustrated at the end of term – or before. This course seeks to help all aspiring and current middle managers by focussing on the challenges they face & offering practical solutions to the issues confronting colleagues.

  

• How to have Outstanding Pastoral Systems and Behaviour Management

• • Session 1 - Please choose from:- • Voice and Body Language in the Classroom • Developing Emotional Intelligence • How to be an outstanding Form Tutor /Learning Mentor • Realist's Guide to Motivation and Behaviour Session 2 - Please choose from:- • How to deal with disruptive behaviour • Improving Classroom Performance • Highly effective Differentiation • Outstanding Teaching . Dealing with Low-level Disruptive Behaviour Session 3 - Please choose from:- • Leading your Pastoral Teams Voice & Body Language in the Classroom • Realist's Guide to Motivation and Behaviour • Developing Emotional Intelligence

  

• How to Survive & Benefit from an Independent School Inspection

• • This course goes beyond the mere mechanics of preparation for an inspection and looks at the wider implications of inspection and how schools’ managements can benefit not only in the immediate situation, but in the aftermath and long-term strategy of a school.

  

• How to Thrive and Survive as a Cover Supervisor

• • This is a wonderful "crash course" in the basics of teaching and classroom management. Totally practical and above all realistic, it is delivered by the internationally acclaimed Karl Turner whose years of working in disadvantaged schools make him an expert in teaching and learning as much as behaviour management.

  

• Improving Classroom Performance Part 2

• • All schools are very interested in the concept of how to teach most effectively but some have found that training in this area is either overloaded with theory or too full of buzzwords and jargon – the exact opposite of what is required! This training day is designed to demonstrate very clearly how to utilise the most effective teaching and learning strategies in a real classroom environment.

  

• Intergrating Thinking Skills into the Classroom

• • This course will fully reference what the QCA has defined as a framework of personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS) for describing the qualities and skills needed for success in learning and life. Thinking skills are expected to be developed at all key stages and centre on: information-processing skills, reasoning skills, enquiry skills, creative thinking skills and evaluation skills.

  

• Key Issues for NQT Induction Tutors and NQT Subject Mentors

• • Over 40% of NQTs leave teaching within three years - it is clear that NQT Induction Tutors and Subject Mentors have a vital role to play, not only in their own school but in the profession as a whole. This superb course by the outstanding Karl Turner offers a detailed, thorough and interesting raft of ideas and materials to help all teachers with induction/mentoring responsibilities.

  

• The Essential Course for Aspiring SLT Members

• • An effective HoD or HoY can just about “please all of the people all of the time”. No matter how effective you are as a member of a SMT you will upset somebody! This course offers practical advice on managing this transition as well as utilising recent SLT experience to sharpen the skills of current SMT members.

  

• The Essential Course for ASTs

• • Up-skill ASTs and prospective ASTs on the outcomes of the latest learning experiments around the UK.
  • Receive a range of practical lesson ideas taken from these new Initiatives
  • Be shown a sophisticated value added analysis of these new initiatives

  

• The must do course on Independent Learning

• • Independent learning can be one of the most powerful strategies to raise academic standards and develop confident, motivated and self reliant students. If you want to introduce the latest ideas of Independent learning into the curricular diet of your students this is the course for you.

  

• The non Geeks guide to Using New Technologies in your classroom

• • Quite simply, the pace of change grows faster and faster. New emergent technologies are almost changing monthly in their power and scope. Many teachers are being left behind as they rather worryingly find that their students are more IT confident than they are. This will be the case no more. On it you will look at twitter, blogging, facebook, webcams etc... And see how they are seriously enhancing learning. DELEGATES MUST BRING A LAPTOP.

  

• The Realist’s Guide to Raising Boys’ Achievement

• • This is the course for all those teachers who are tired of fads and fashions. For the teachers who don’t want theories and who are sick of being told that every lesson has to be fun, fun,fun! We’ll look at lesson planning, behaviour problems, how to “win friends & influence people” and how to keep going when the going gets tough.

  

• Thriving Surviving and as an NQT

• • NQTs are the lifeblood of our profession. Nurture them and they can bloom into superb teachers that are a major asset to your school. However c40% leave the profession within three years. This wonderful course has received eulogies from over 800 NQTs in the last few years and is a MUST whatever your subject.