Dragonfly Training Ltd

Courses for English

• Create Engaging English Lessons Using an Interactive Whiteboard

• • This course has been running for 8 years and continues to have Teachers writing the most positive feedback about it. Why? Quite simply, Peter Dawes is an IWB expert who doesn't believe in IT for IT's sake! He shows Teachers how to use their board to its full potential in a hands on and practical fashion.

  

• 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.

  

• High Impact Lesson Ideas for English NQTs

• • Tony Dickens has been described by OFSTED as "remarkable", An English teacher described him as "a legend" and his courses last year received over 98% top marks and literally dozens of eulogies. Why? He still teaches. He has some superb, easily usable teaching ideas and he's a great, down-to-earth, unassuming chap. Please book early as this course often sells out.

  

• How to teach Originality for an A* in GCSE English

• • "My wife is an English teacher, my sister in law is the author Susan Elderkin. I know how hard it is to teach originality in English and I also know that this new course from Tony Dickens will be absolutely superb and a sell-out" Stephen Chapman, MD Dragonfly Training

  

• Independent Learning in English

• • This new course demonstrates how different students learn in English, how to engage them in the language of learning, how to effectively utilise internal/external feedback, how to set and assess homework tasks that have real value in Independent Learning. An analysis of and practical strategies to enable English teachers, support staff and students to work together in the pursuit of Independent Learning will all be delivered on the day.

  

• 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.

  

• Outstanding Ideas to Raise Attainment at the C/D Borderline in GCSE English Language

• • "There is a truth universally acknowledged by all, that the difference between a D and C Grade is huge" Austin James!!!! This course offers practical advice, practical strategies and a wealth of materials to take back to school that genuinely make a difference.

  

• Practical Strategies to Teach Spoken Language (GSCE English 2010)

• • Spoken language provides us with a rich source for learning and from September 2010 GCSE students will be expected to show an understanding of how it works, as well as being able to analyse and evaluate the effects. This course will consider the ways in which spoken language is used in different contexts, how it is adapted to different listeners and the effects of standard and non-standard forms. Most crucially, the course will show you how to deliver the material in a practical, logical and engaging way, with the learner very much at the centre.

  

• VLE and English

• • You know you need to produce a VLE for English - here's the course that will enable you to do it. It shows you how to make an excellent English VLE, provides a mass of content and reviews the packages available. A truly fantastic course.