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facilitating 21st century skills through Cooperative Learning
“...the best experience was actually ... adapting the CLIPs to the needs of the children, and actually getting some really, really interesting work from them. The guided reading was the highlight of my career”
- Ms R. Lamb, Newly Qualified Teacher,
CL course #2 Skills & Mastery
Teacher training, workshops, R&D
Products & Services
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,
related articles on
Cooperative Learning & the Sutton Trust on Pupil Premium
... the only two approaches classified as “high impact for low cost” ... are seamlessly integrated into Cooperative Learning.
Deconstructing the Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy...
Over the past month, I have been reading Mr Peal’s Progressively Worse with disturbed fascination. For someone coming from the Scandinavian education system, with a very different ethos and political history, this book is an eye-opening insight...
CL course #2
Skills & Mastery
Measurable results across all subjects
This course presents a number of engaging team and pair work CLIPs (Cooperative Learning Interaction Patterns) which facilitate understanding, retention of rules and facts and correct application of rote procedures, including SPaG for primary schools.
By the end of the full 6 hour course participating teachers will be able to support their teaching with a number of engaging group and pair work interaction patterns to:
- activate schemata in relation to topics and tasks
- use CL to discover solutions
- monitor learning and thinking processes to provide relevant on-the-fly teacher response
- facilitate
- effective task work in pairs and teams
- creative writing, skim, scan and intensive reading, in English and foreign languages
- Higher Level Thinking Skills; enhancement and rote learning integration
- homework checking
- cross-class knowledge sharing
- retention of rules and facts
- memorising and training of correct application of rote procedures e.g. mathematical formula, how to use a foreign language dictionary or steps in conducting scientific experiments.
Basic course total time: 6 hours.
Delivery: 2 x 3 or 3 x 2 hour twilights at a venue of your choice.
Key stage: All, including tertiary education. Content examples are tailored to your needs.
Price: £900 for up to 20 participating teachers. *
Please contact me for more information.
“...very little change in planning teachers had to do, but enabled
maximum participation of all the pupils ....
in terms of APS points, Cooperative Learning offers the most bang for buck.”
- Andrew Howard, acting head, Stalham Academy,
on Skills & Mastery, 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 Primer is an excellent supplement to the Skills & Mastery course.
* 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.
‘‘ ... structured approaches, with well-designed tasks
lead to the greatest learning gains.”
Sutton Trust, EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit p.11 (2014)