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Written with teachers responsible for Citizenship in mind, this publication provides ideas to develop your school's procedures and methods for the Assessment of Citizenship.
The CD-Rom explains what you have to do, how you do it and gives many assessment ideas.
It includes:
Organisational strategies to ensure that assessments are secure, whilst time demands are realistic.
Ideas for approaches to assessment and activities, which offer assessment support opportunities.
It covers:
What should be assessed
Using end of Key Stage descriptors
How to gather and interpret sufficient information
How to record assessments
How to gather information about attainment and achievement
This training resource uses actors and role play to give you realistic and practical guidance on the choices available to you to tackle bullying in schools and shows you how to implement strategies effectively. It does this by showing you a real-life bullying situation on the DVD and then illustrates the different ways of dealing with it.
comprehensive training programme precisely geared to the school's needs
recruitment tool and induction package helps develop confidence quickly and thoroughly
allows governors to examine some typical scenarios and find solutions together, stressing the need for assertive behaviour and creative thinking
This DVD based product provides schools with three distinct governor development toolsˇKa recruitment video to help you generate interest in joining your school as a governor, an induction training course so that new governors can find their feet quickly and efficiently and a more advanced team buiding and effectiveness training course that helps governors understand the key principles behind their role and find their way through complex, real world problems.
With this course, you will acquire the theory and skills to improve communication with parents, hold more effective parent conferences, and implement strategies that build a collaborative partnership between school and home. You will be presented with the theoretical foundation and implementation designs that will prepare you to work more effectively with parents to improve student achievement.
In this course, you will learn how to:
defuse emotional confrontations with parents.
better prepare for and conduct parent conferences.
implement communication strategies that will build a positive, productive partnership with all of your students' parents.
An effective School Council, which allows pupils' views to be listened to, will make them feel more valued members of the school. They will learn active citizenship, their personal, social and moral development will be supported and their behaviour in and around school will be improved. In turn their enhanced self-esteem will contribute to more effective learning.
This resource aims to help you run a highly effective school council which will allow students' views to be heard and enable them to develop personally, socially and morally. This in turn will improve behaviour and enhance self-esteem, thereby contributing to more effective learning.
Provides motivation and guidance on the implementation, administration and monitoring of effective pupil peer coaching
This school development and training course is based on the real experiences of six schools. It provides motivation and insight for pupils and teachers along with comprehensive structure for and guidance on the implementation, administration and monitoring of an effective pupil peer coaching scheme in your school. It demonstrates the many benefits of pupil peer coaching - an initiative that taps into the talents, experience and enthusiasm of older pupils to help younger pupils with academic, social and organisational problems.
The programme is modular and includes a number of tools for helping schools to plan and operate a successful pupil coaching system
Module 1 - Context for Teachers
Module 2 - Context for Students
Module 3 - Making the Difference
Module 4 - Lead Teacher Issues
Module 5 - Coach Training
Pupil Peer Coaching?provides schools with guidance on the implementation, administration and monitoring of an effective pupil peer coaching scheme and includes numerous suggestions and ideas for training pupil coaches to ensure that everyone gets the most out of the initiative.
Provides motivation and guidance on the implementation, administration and monitoring of effective pupil peer coaching
This school development and training course is based on the real experiences of six schools. It provides motivation and insight for pupils and teachers along with comprehensive structure for and guidance on the implementation, administration and monitoring of an effective pupil peer coaching scheme in your school. It demonstrates the many benefits of pupil peer coaching - an initiative that taps into the talents, experience and enthusiasm of older pupils to help younger pupils with academic, social and organisational problems.
The programme is modular and includes a number of tools for helping schools to plan and operate a successful pupil coaching system
Module 1 - Context for Teachers
Module 2 - Context for Students
Module 3 - Making the Difference
Module 4 - Lead Teacher Issues
Module 5 - Coach Training
Pupil Peer Coaching?provides schools with guidance on the implementation, administration and monitoring of an effective pupil peer coaching scheme and includes numerous suggestions and ideas for training pupil coaches to ensure that everyone gets the most out of the initiative.
Discover how to implement quality Circle Time in secondary schools with the leading expert Jenny Mosley.
Quality Circle Time has been highlighted as a core methodology for delivering the SEAL curriculum, but it can also be used in PSHE sessions, curriculum lessons and with tutor groups. In this DVD Jenny Mosley offers professional and practical advice on how to run a circle time session. Following a brief introduction she outlines the five skills that are essential to successful circle time:
Thinking
Looking
Listening
Speaking
Concentrating
The DVD is devoted to a Quality Circle Time session with Year 7 - filmed in a school location and led by Jenny in which all of the above is put into practice. The group session is followed by a teacher question-and-answer session where Jenny offers invaluable guidance borne from her years of experience as a master circle time practitioner and trainer.
This course will give you the knowledge and skills to deal with students' apprehensions and fears and at the same time create an emotionally safe classroom atmosphere that promotes learning. Topics covered include teaching to various learning styles and preferences, setting attainable goals for improving student achievement, and helping students in crisis situations.
In this course, you will learn how to:
create an emotional safety net to support troubled students before they become dangerous students.
recognize and respond effectively to students who are experiencing an emotional crisis.
identify and capitalize on students learning strengths and preferences.
This course will explore five areas that are critical to effective teaching in the 21st century. These areas are the vital connection between student-teacher relationships and academic achievement, teaching strategies that take advantage of multiple-intelligences theory, approaches to character education, strategies to deal with increased student hyperactivity, and learning projects that develop self-management skills.
In this course, you will learn how to:
successfully teach those students who have previously been labeled as "unreachable."
gain valuable new skills that will help you build positive relationships with your students.
create classroom activities that will help students who are continually hyperactive in your classroom.