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facilitating 21st century skills through Cooperative Learning
“It has a huge impact … it is such a simple philosophy in a way, but actually, it is everyday positivity, and that opens their minds to learning, to experiences... It makes a huge difference in the children's lives - and in adults' lives, too.”
- Ms Vanessa Branch, Safeguarding & Behavior Lead, Norwich Primary Academy, 2016. On the Impact of Cooperative Learning, 2016.
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The CPD courses outlined here serve as a point of reference and any delivery includes a free and non-committal consultation; courses are modular, and content and example materials are always tailored to your unique requirements.
I also design and deliver special sessions directly to your students or stakeholders.
See the Norwich High School for Girls tailored workshop Life in the Global Village.
Please contact me for all enquiries regarding such tailored events or if you have an interesting research & development project. Especially LAs, trusts or associations looking to share best practices effectively across sites will benefit from Cooperative Learning.
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On the subject of social skills
There is an ongoing heated debate on whether it is the role of schools to teach students basic human skills; a bit of an academic question for teachers stuck in in the day-to-day mayhem...
From Cooperative Learning of skills to Collaboration as a Skill
...Cooperative Learning should be used to teach students not just subjects and social skills, but forms of working together and communicating...
Create a safe learning environment and provide skills for life
A sense of security is a condition for effective learning. To secure the high attainment potential of Cooperative Learning, the heterogeneous cooperative team - ideally mixing race, gender, religion and social strata as well as ability - naturally integrates crucial social skills training, preparing children for life in modern Britain.
This includes assuming responsibility, showing patience, listening, taking turns, conflict resolution, scaling responses, anger and impulse control, escalation management, awareness of body language and facial expression, giving and asking for appropriate support, useful phrases to express feelings such as gratitude and remorse, as well as leadership and collaboration. All these are not only vital to a positive, healthy school ethos and requirements in the form of PSHE, Citizenship and SMSC, but are also keys 21st century skills.
At the end of the course participants will be able to utilise Cooperative Learning to:
Basic course total time: 4 hours.
Delivery: 4 hour inset or 2 x 2 hour twilights at a venue of your choice.
Key stage: KS1-4. Content examples are tailored to your needs.
Price: £600 for up to 20 participating teachers. **
Please contact me for more information.
- participant, 21st Century British Muslim, Date Valley School, 2015
Recommended add-ons:
Coaching: Tailored to your needs, a follow up coaching session may include lesson observation, feedback on planning and delivery, model lesson delivery, fine tuning of individual teachers or focus on specific subjects, topics or events in your school, such as using Cooperative Learning to stage events which involve the wider community around your institution. £75 per hour.
SEN course: This 2 hour module explores how Cooperative Learning may support ADHD, ADD and autism spectrum pupils.
The Primer course is an excellent supplement to the Social Skills course.
‘‘In addition, with advances in technology and changes in the workforce infrastructure, the teamwork and cooperation learned through Cooperative Learning activities is of high value for the future success for the students”
North Dakota Teaching with Technology Initiative
Cooperative Learning (2003)