Whole School

Peer coaching

Peer coaching is proven to be a professional development strategy that brings long term and lasting change in teachers’ experience and skills. If you are serious about developing the skills and competencies of your staff, this training experience is ideal to introduce teachers to the coaching process and to begin their journey towards a fully implemented peer coaching programme in your school.

Assessment for Learning

Do you want to help your learners to assess their own learning progress, to understand the next steps and how best to get there? Do you want them to be able to critically evaluate their own work and that of their peers forming constructive judgements that will help them make progress? Do you want them to be able to employ a range of learning strategies independently and to evaluate their learning outcomes and apply them to new situations?

Join our Training Experience and see how Assessment for Learning can truly move your learners forward to achieve their goals and achieve better results. We will show you effective formative assessment strategies and techniques to engage your students in self and peer assessment that will really boost their confidence and understanding. You will be equipped with skills that will enable you to develop more independent learners who are able to make informed and effective choices about the way they learn, and how they review their learning outcomes and strategies, in order to demonstrate real progress.

Effective questioning for deeper learning

Are you asking your learners meaningful questions? Are they still thinking about the solutions when they walk outside your classroom? Are they still talking about your lessons and discussing their ideas when they come to your next lesson? Wouldn’t it be great if they did that?

To achieve the above goal, you don’t need a magic formula, you need awesome questions that engage and address your learners’ interests, imagination and natural curiosity head on! In this training experience you will develop effective questioning skills that will help you ask better and more meaningful questions in your lessons. You will become confident in planning for outstanding Q&A sessions that will develop higher order skills in your students, as well as facilitate the development of Literacy and Numeracy skills.

Mind Mapping for deeper learning

Do you see your learners struggle to revise using ineffective study techniques? Would you like to see them reach deeper levels of thinking and retention? Wouldn’t it be great if they could easily link difficult concepts and make inferences with confidence and competence? Would you like to see their Literacy skills thrive?

In this training experience we will demonstrate the powerful process of Mind Mapping in action and you will learn how to truly cause your learners’ minds to blossom into mature thinking tanks. We will show you how to draw effective mind maps and how to pass this powerful skill to your learners. You will see how motivating and creative this process is and why your learners will love it and make real and measurable progress through practicing Mind Mapping techniques. Mind Mapping is an ideal tool for consolidating understanding and for revising topics to reach deeper learning. Being able to Mind Map effectively is one of the most powerful techniques you can equip your learners with! Join us in this great course to see the most effective ways to Mind Map and the best tools to make the process even more efficient and creative.

Thinking skills strategies for deeper learning

In this Training Experience you will develop a range of powerful and effective Thinking Skills Strategies that will transform the learning experiences in your classroom. Your students will become more independent and mature learners and you will be able to demonstrate progress in your lessons and throughout your students’ school life. The SOLO Taxonomy and Hexagonal Thinking are just two examples of the methodologies we will explore, which have generated outstanding outcomes in many schools.