Course #1 Primer

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Teacher training, workshops, R&D

 

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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 will benefit from Cooperative Learning.

 

“Scary at first, but after getting used to it, I began to interact more with the class as everybody needed your information and listened to you.”

-R.,Year 8,

Norwich High School for Girls

Life in the Global Village.

 

CL course #1

Cooperative Learning Primer

 

General introduction, instant application across all subjects

 

This course is a standalone general introduction to Cooperative Learning.

 

It presents four simple and versatile Cooperative Learning Interaction Patterns (CLIPs) and gives practical demonstrations on how these may facilitate lesson objectives and social skills development across the curriculum.

 

The CLIPs presented cover a wide variety of learning situations, including knowledge sharing and presentation, enquiry, rote learning, problem solving, thinking and communication.

 

This course also introduces some of the theory and pedagogical principles behind CLIPs. Teachers learn how to use CLIPs to drive specific learning and integrate social skills, assessment and real-time monitoring, as well as basic rationale for setting up teams to leverage lower and higher ability pupils.

 

By the end of the course, participating teachers will be able use the four CLIPs to:

 

  • facilitate team building & class building
  • integrate social skill sets with subjects
  • promote communication and Higher Level Thinking Skills
  • facilitate:
    • effective task work
  • cross-class knowledge sharing
  • presentation
  • retention of rules and facts
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    Basic course total time: 4 hours.

     

    Delivery: 4 hour inset or 2 x 2 hour twilights at a venue of your choice.

     

    Key stage: All, including tertiary education. Content examples are tailored to your needs.

     

    Price: £600 for up to 20 participating teachers. *

     

    Please contact me for more information.

     

    “It's a very intense course and I want to use it all”

    - Participant, CL Primer, Manara Academy, Leicester, June 2014

     

     

     

     

    Recommended add-ons:

     

    Lesson plan integration: Using Cooperative Learning, participants will reflect on ways to practically integrate the course content into their individual subjects and classes, for instant implementation the following day. £150 per hour for up to 20 participating teachers.

     

    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.

     

     

    The Skills & Mastery course is an excellent supplement to the Primer.

     

    * Werdelin Education is currently not VAT registered. All course includes up to 20 teachers hosted at your facility.

    Extra Travel, materials and special venues NOT included.

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