About this course

Would you like to create a dynamic, active learning environment where all students are both engaged and extended?

Do you want to develop resilient students who work equally well independently or collaboratively?

Has an inspection team ever commented that the teachers, rather than your students, are doing most of the work in lessons?

 

The lessons that have that ‘X factor’ are ones in which the students are not passive classroom passengers but are active learners, motivated to work independently or collaboratively and extend themselves as far as they can. This course shows you how this can be achieved.

Course Outcomes:

• Discover ways to prevent your students from becoming passengers in lessons
• Learn how to set up lessons where the students work a lot harder than they have done before!
• Receive practical, down-to-earth advice, tips and teaching techniques that have been proven to work
• Gain a fuller understanding of how buzz words, jargon and excuses for underachievement, hinder rather than help the profession

Course Outline:

Building Blocks

'Setting up’ a lesson – rules, routines and rituals that really work

New ideas for old favourites – lets not reinvent the wheel

Making it stick – with proof! – global evidence actually utilised

On-going revision and constant reinforcement

Fully Engaged: A Practical Guide

Student-set success criteria that are explicit but not restrictive

Creating a climate for learning: what can we do to help and what we shouldn’t

No passengers allowed

The best questioning techniques….ever

Tips, Tricks and Techniques

The fail-safe lesson template that really works

Enriching your curriculum with flair, creativity and yes…content

The very best practice in AfL

Creating effective learning habits that learners can keep for the rest of their lives