Brilliant Behaviour Management – Practical Classroom Strategies for Early-Career Teachers
A practical guide to managing behaviour in classroom and creating a positive, purposeful working environment. Jam-packed with realistic, tried-and-tested techniques that really work, this training will help class teachers to feel confident about dealing with difficult pupils, settling noisy classes and trouble-shooting disruptive behaviour with immediate effect. Isabella will also draw on how the current situation may be adversely impacting on pupil behaviour and in this session will provide practical techniques for reinforcing classroom protocols and expectations.
Truly Effective Teaching
Ensuring that every pupil in your class makes progress can sometimes seem like an impossible task – especially when within your class there are learners with wildly differing starting points. This course provides a comprehensive guide to ensuring that every pupil in every lesson is supported and challenged to their full potential. Jam-packed with low-prep/ no-prep practical strategies that are ready to use immediately, and underpinned by the latest research, this training will help entire schools to feel confident about classroom practice in ever lesson. Find out how to ensure undeniable, visible progress for every learner without creating unnecessary teacher workload! Take away exciting and innovative techniques, that are realistic and useable the very next day in subjects across the curriculum and different Key Stages.
Why is mental wellbeing so important to our pupil’s learning?
Part 1: What does neuroscience tell us?
Part 2: Ensuring your school environment is conducive to positive mental health and learning.
The discoveries made by neuroscience have provided us with great insight as to the link between student mental wellbeing and learning. This training will look at the research and provide insights to help educators develop their educational setting to improve the mental wellbeing and learning of its students. It will look at why differentiation is important for all students and why it shouldn’t impose additional heavy burdens on teachers. As well as providing knowledge for strategic decisions, this training will also provide practical tools that can be used immediately to improve learning.
Safer Recruitment for International Schools (Refresher Course)
This online training will provide information on how recruitment processes should comply with the principles of safer recruitment practice and to understand best practice guidelines for schools, academies and colleges The training will examine perpetrator behaviour and how the school can deter, identify and reject candidates who are unsuitable to work with children and prevent them from gaining employment. It examines the required pre-employment checks for school staff and practical tools to apply throughout the process.
Essential Update for Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL) Working in International Schools
Best practice indicates that Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) should have regular opportunities to reflect on and improve their practice. This essential update does just that; you will reflect on new research from this academic year that is pertinent to current issues in schools and identify how best to incorporate it into your practice. You will have the opportunity to identify the issues that starting this academic year will present and how to overcome them. You will have the opportunity to discuss these challenges with your colleagues from other school.
Introduction: Whole School Safeguarding and Child Protection Training for School Governors (Level 1)
This short course is designed to give school governors a better understanding of key legislation, guidance and procedures relating to the safety and protection of children. Using International case studies and case reviews this course will give those attending an introduction to harm and abuse, knowledge of key warning signs and offer practical suggestions of how governing bodies provide support to the headteacher to continually improve safeguarding practices across a school.
Coaching & Mentoring
This 2-hours course will introduce participants to knowledge and skills that underpin both coaching and mentoring. We will establish the differences and similarities of coaching and mentoring and consider where they might be best positioned within your own setting and role. The webinar will provide you with an opportunity to develop your own coaching skills as a leader and begin to develop your coaching strategy for your school.
Train the Coach for Senior School Leaders
A theoretical and practical exploration of leadership coaching. Participants will work through online training activities, practical activities and written reflections to develop their understanding of coaching leaders. We will work to develop and practice those skills that are essential for coaches. The course will also provide additional models that coaches may use to enhance their client’s development and performance. Participants will also understand and be able to apply the important principles around contracting, ethics and supervision as they seek to embed coaching in their own setting. The course is designed to improve leadership at all levels but can be scoped to include coaching at all levels, including the coaching of teachers and support staff.
Executive Leaders Training for School Leaders in an International Setting
A short introductory course for Executive Leaders wanting to better understand the role of an executive leader and CEO. Using the latest research and expertise in the field of education and leadership, this online course will provide the skills you need to consistently lead across your schools and to engage effectively with external stakeholders.
New to Senior School Leadership—Helping you become a great leader
Ideal for new middle school leaders or those looking for a solid foundation course before taking a new specialist NPQ in the near future. As with all our courses, it is evidence-informed and based on the latest leadership research.
New to Middle School Leadership — Helping you become a great leader
Ideal for new middle school leaders or those looking for a solid foundation course before taking a new specialist NPQ in the near future. As with all our courses, it is evidence-informed and based on the latest research into curriculum knowledge and pedagogy.
Instructional Coaching to improve teaching and learning
‘‘Moving from feedback to feed forward’ (Cult of Pedagogy, accessed 2019).
Whether your school’s approach to improving teaching and learning seems to be working well, or team members are progressing inconsistently as a result of a teacher development process or programme not yet fit for purpose, using instructional coaching can support your whole team to develop a high quality, embedded approach to developing the quality of teaching and learning across your school using some simple techniques. Open questioning, active listening, careful observation skills, and a culture of professional discussion for improved performance all equate to a developed team, developed capacity and developed teaching and learning for your students. This course will support you in implementing and embedding an instructional coaching approach in your school and will provide you with valuable resources do to this effectively. This course is part of our ‘Leading Learning– Establishing an Effective cohort of Lead Practitioners’.
Handling Difficult Conversations
As a school leader, the need to have challenging and difficult conversations is inevitable. It is a crucial skill we need to develop. If we neglect to have these conversations, often this can lead to unresolved issues which can have a significant impact on school improvement, professional relationships or outcomes for learners. Our Holding Difficult Conversations course will provide you with the skills and confidence to approach difficult conversations effectively in a professional way, to help maintain your integrity and positive relationships with your team, in achieving the change you seek for the better.This interactive course, will allow you to develop skills you can put to use immediately in your leadership. It will provide you with tools and techniques so that you are fully prepared to deal with various difficult conversations across a range of situations.
SEND & Inclusion— Developing a whole-school approach to SEN across your school
The traditional model of SEN students being supported by the SEN department has changed. Supporting SEN is now a whole school responsibility with class teachers being the first wave of inclusive quality first teaching. This highly practical course will provide instantly useable resources, tools, and strategies that schools can use to immediately reduce unnecessary barriers to learning. It will also provide the resources to empower all staff to support SEN students as part of their everyday practise.
Dyslexia Awareness and Support Strategies
This course will promote an understanding of what Dyslexia is and how it presents itself in the primary classroom and identified. Participants gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses faced by a Dyslexic learner. Ideas and strategies are provided on how best to support students in class and what adjustments can be made.
