Dragonfly Training comes to Dublin
We would like to thank St Colmcille’s Community School, Knocklyon, Dublin and all those who attended the free, and very successful, in-school training courses, hosted by the school on 26th and 27th March 2012:
- Assessment for Learning
- Improving Classroom Performance
Click here to find out more and to see what the Principals, Deputyt Principals and Teachers thought of our training.
Our trainers come to you to run bespoke In-School training days.
We understand that Term 1 is an important time to focus, motivate and enthuse students and staff and we hope we can provide some help and support. So, we have secured dates from our four most popular trainers Steve Chapman, Steve Garnett, Alan Jervis and Neil Atkin to be available to come to Ireland for In-School training days:
Trainers available from Monday 20th August 2012
See below for a selection of the most common topics we are asked to cover. Please do not hesitate to give us a call on the numbers below if you have any questions or you’d like to discuss your ideas further, our staff and trainers would be happy to talk them through with you.
A Practical Guide to Successfully Implementing Assessment for Learning
Of all the new initiatives that have descended upon education in the last decade its Assessment for Learning that has yielded the best results by far. However the variations in its success rates are a result of the differing quality of its implementation. This course is very low on theory and high on practical strategies that can be used in ALL classrooms the very next day.
- What is Assessment for Learning and what does it look like for pupils and teachers?
- How do we make AfL work most successfully in our school?
- What are the very latest strategies in AfL that have been proven to work?
Improving Classroom Performance Promoting Active and Independent Learning
The sensational new training programme from Steve Chapman - MD of Dragonfly Training - along with fellow authors Alan Jervis and Steve Garnett. This is a totally hands-on, practical, invigorating and entertaining programme that gives teachers:
- Dozens of teaching strategies that get the pupils to think deeply about their work, avoid spoon-feeding and promote higher order thinking skills
- The very latest ideas on lesson structure, how to create ‘on-going revision’ and how to improve exam preparation.
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.
After this course you will:
- Be able to construct outstanding Independent Learning lessons for your subject
- Reflect on and evaluate a range of techniques to encourage students down the path of Independent Learning
- Be empowered with many ways of implementing Independent Learning into your departmental programme.
Improving Numeracy Levels Across the Curriculum
The exciting thing for teachers is that by utilising more Numeracy based techniques, individual subjects can see massive benefits in terms of ‘knowledge compression’ and increased understanding of lesson material. This course will provide a wealth of practical, new and exciting lesson ideas to increase Numeracy levels in the classroom.
- Estimation and rounding
- Number and number processes
- Fractions, decimal fractions and percentages
- Money, time, measurement, data and data analysis
Improving Literacy Levels Across the Curriculum
This course will focus on providing a range of practical, ‘lesson ready’ teaching ideas, suitable for all subjects, that allow teachers to improve Literacy levels whilst fully engaging their pupils.
- Improving spelling and grammar
- Developing and using effective grammar
- Creating texts
High Impact Active Learning
This all fits into one hugely practical day. For all schools interested in teaching and learning - this is a must! The course aims to deliver a practical approach to the implementation of the successful elements of:
- Accelerated Learning
- Thinking for Learning
- Emotional Intelligence
- Assessment for Learning
Differentiating your Lessons to Boost Everyone’s Exam Results
This course is ideal for any teacher who wants to consider ways of easily and effectively differentiating every lesson to challenge all the learners in the class taking into account their differing needs.
- Examine cutting edge methods of differentiation by process, grouping, language, task and outcome
- Ideas to extend the most able
- Ideas to consolidate the learning of the slow learner.
The Realistic Guide on How to Stretch and Challenge your Most Able
If you lift the attainment of your most able then you lift the attainment of all students.
- Visit 6 of the most popular pedagogies with examples of these models in different subject areas
- Structured and non-structured learning
- Extend your toolkit of ‘Most Able’ techniques and whole lesson ideas for any subject
- Introduce A.F.L. for the Most Able
How to use Thinking Skills to Raise Academic Standards
You will understand how to integrate ideas into your lesson plans to boost examination results, experiment with thinking skills activities to improve student motivation and confidence and you will engage with the latest ideas in improving student’s ability in thinking skills. You will experience examples from all the major techniques.
- You will reflect on cutting edge strategies on thinking skills such as blue sky thinking, out of the black box, Nuffield approaches, Somerset thinking, philosophy for children, Newcastle thinking, De Bono, turbo teaching, lateral thinking and problem solving.
The Realist’s Guide to Motivation and Behaviour
Whether you work in a highly challenging environment or you simply want to develop new effective strategies to make better use of lesson time and so improve results and motivation. This course is packed with sensible, easy-to-apply strategies that really do work with real children in real classrooms.
- Routines and habits every teacher needs to know
- Practical steps to pre-empt low level disruption
- Easy lesson planning to avoid off-task behaviour.
What Makes a Lesson ‘Outstanding’ Instead of 'Good'
An exciting, active and inspiring training day that will leave your colleagues ‘tooled up’ with everything they need to deliver the outstanding lesson. Our experience of training several thousand teachers tells us that the best in-school training day:
- Demystifies and deconstructs the jargon for busy and hardworking colleagues
- Does not do pointless role-play or group work
- Gets teachers involved instead of just listening
Motivating and Raising Standards of Low Attainers Turn those Ds and Es into Cs or even better
Teaching the lower achievers can be very challenging. Students can switch off completely, or use a range of disruptive tactics to cover their lack of confidence. This course offers practical and effective strategies for increasing pupil motivation and for making your teaching more effective and their learning more enjoyable.
- Practical strategies to improve the behaviour and motivation of the low attainers
- The motivational strategies that really inspire pupils to work
- Ways to link the key concepts so they make sense and are relevant to the lives of learners.
Leadership
Our leadership courses are totally practical and realistic from start to finish. We don’t avoid all the difficult questions and whilst we admit there simply isn’t the perfect solution to every problem, we do give answers and strategies, and don’t just facilitate your own ideas. All aspects of leadership training offered:
- Senior Leadership
- Aspiring Senior Leadership
- Department or Faculty Leaders
- Pastoral / Team Leaders
- Learning Mentors
IT Training
Here at Dragonfly we like to believe that our IT training is different. We provide hands-on training (not just a demonstration) of the highest possible quality. We don’t try and blind teachers with the latest gimmicks available in IT, instead, we show you how IT can help pupils and teachers in the classroom. Choose from:
- Interactive whiteboard training - all major brands catered for: a) Subject specific b) Beginners to intermediate c) Rolling programmes available
- VLE: Most major systems catered for. Training on a departmental or whole staff basis
- Data management
- Nearly all other aspects of Educational IT training.
Find out more about our trainers coming to Ireland:
Click here to read Steve Chapman’s Biog
Click here to read Steve Garnett’s Biog
Click here to read Alan Jervis Biog
Click here to read Neil Atkin’s Biog
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The training provided by Dragonfly was outstanding. Both the course content and the trainer were very engaging and the hands on approach resulted in a very enthusiastic response from all staff. Neil Atkin was truly an inspirational trainer.
Leona Harrington -
We were particularly pleased with how relevant the content was to the Irish Education context and commend Neil for the preparatory work which had undoubtedly been undertaken to ensure the training reflected our needs.
Our overall experience in dealing with Dragonfly Training has been an extremely positive one. The team at Dragonfly were anxious to support us, meet our needs as a school and ensure that we got maximum benefit from the day. The feedback from staff ,the level of enthusiasm on the day and the integration into lessons of many ideas presented on the day is a testament to the quality of training we received.
Assistant Principal at St Colmcille's
