When I was a classroom teacher, I spent many hours in front of trainers and consultants being entertained, informed, inspired and encouraged to 'have a go' with this or that new idea.

Like most of my colleagues, I enjoyed these experiences and often had a fine meal into the bargain - plus an uninterrupted lunch break. But I'd usually go back to the classroom and make no real changes to my practice.

So now that I'm the person leading the day's training, I want this time to be as effective as possible for you - I want you to gain the confidence and ability to make changes - and then actually go and make them. How do I do this? 

Well, I too aim to entertain, inform, inspire and encourage, but our learning will be practical and hands-on: as it should be in the classroom.

I'll use what I believe about Personalised Learning, Thinking Skills, Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles in the way we work together, so that as well as a nice meal and an uninterrupted lunch hour, you'll get to try out, test and apply lots of straightforward, SMART new ideas.

In the true sense of the phrase, I'll practise what I preach.

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General - underpinning all training

• raise pupils' achievement and esteem
• provide alternative routes to learning
• give students learning tools for academic and life success

INSET/CPD Day

• Experience over 15 Smart Thinking tools for immediate use in the classroom - can include Bloom's Taxonomy; Memory Team; Thinking Starters; Living Graphs; Creative Matrix and many more
• Learn how to infuse smart teaching and learning into daily practice and existing curricula
• Explore ways to bring personalised learning alive in the classroom
• Get to grips with Howard Gardner's empowering theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI)
• Learn how to use MI to raise esteem, enrich assessment and enhance learning
• Address the requirements of ‘Every Child Matters’

Non-Closure Day

A treat for the whole school with 'Mr. Thinker' - introducing Learning Styles/Thinking Skills/MI through storytelling, challenges and demonstration lessons.

• Morning Assembly - introducing a whole school challenge through storytelling
• In Class Workshops - demonstration lessons
• Afternoon Assembly - feedback from the day's challenge
• After School Staff Workshop - how to infuse Smart Teaching into daily practice
• Evening Workshop for Parents, Governors or SMT

Twilight Workshop

• Experience over 7 Smart teaching and learning tools for immediate use in the classroom
• Learn how to infuse Smart Teaching into daily practice

Feedback

"My staff came back to school buzzing - quite an achievement!"

"The best presentation I have attended for some time. Very thought provoking."

"It was refreshing to hear someone not only outline theory but also offer practical applications - the how? of introducing this into the classroom with real examples."

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