The Extended Training Programmes contains four research programmes with Huntington Research School. These courses were previously £295 but are now included within the subscription (each setting has five places available to use across the Extended Training Programmes) and so we are keen that colleagues don’t miss out on them if they would be useful.
The Extended Training Programmes contains four research programmes with Huntington Research School. These courses were previously £295 but are now included within the subscription (each setting has five places available to use across the Extended Training Programmes) and so we are keen that colleagues don’t miss out on them if they would be useful. The four programmes are online (book here or using the links below) and also summarised below:
· Metacognition
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This block of five sessions begins on 7 December 2021 and will led by Julie Kettlewell, Stephen Foreman & Alastair Gittner.
The training will enable attendees to:
· Consider how teachers should acquire the professional understanding and skills to develop their pupils’ metacognitive knowledge and consider what knowledge staff need.
· Understand the key concepts including the myths around metacognition.
· Initiate the ‘explore phase’ of implementation.
· Understand how we can explicitly teach pupils metacognitive strategies, including how to plan, monitor and evaluate their learning.
· Exemplify metacognitive scaffolding in the classroom.
· Understand the impact of a limited working memory and how we can support pupils with this deficit.
· Understand the importance of deliberate difficulties and how this relates to motivation.
· Understand how classroom dialogue can be used to develop metacognitive skills.
· Recognise the role teacher play in guiding and supporting the conversation to ensure it’s challenging and builds on prior subject knowledge.
· Have a common, clear understanding of what independent learning truly is.
· Explore the things your students do to organise and manage their learning effectively.
· Explore the ways you and your team effectively support students to learn independently.
· Understand how to assess metacognition and self-regulation in a valid way.
· Consider how you currently engage with parents and how you can provide practical strategies to support learning at home.
· Begin implementation planning for your chosen intervention/ next steps.
· Learning Behaviours
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This block of five sessions begins on 19 January 2022 and will be led by Rob Newton and Andy Marsden.
Effective learning behaviours have emerged from the rich and diverse evidence base represented in the EEF guidance reports on improving behaviour, metacognition and self-regulation, special educational needs in mainstream schools, working with parents, and social and emotional learning. Successful learning behaviours rely on layering all these areas to wrap around every child in our schools. Each is part of a puzzle which makes best sense when all parts click together, building long-term protective factors for deeper learning.
Aims:
· Explore the evidence base around social and emotional learning and improving behaviour.
· Identify the areas that you intend to focus on in order to improve your school culture around learning behaviours.
· Monitor and evaluate the impact of your implementation plan in order to ensure it is as effective as possible.
The programme is designed to support the development of Learning Behaviours across a school or phase. Therefore it is important that attendees are in a position in school that enables them to be able to influence change across their school – not just in their own classroom.
· Literacy (Primary)
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This block of five sessions begins on 22 November 2021 and will be led by Rob Newton and Marcus Jones.
Literacy relies on pre-existing oral language and cognitive skills, with the extent of involvement of these processes differing between aspects of reading and writing and at different points during development across key stages 1 and 2. This course will look at the underlying skills used in reading and writing and how the processes are related, work together, and operate in isolation. Awareness of these processes can help teachers develop thoughtful and focused pedagogy that supports children’s literacy development.
· Literacy (Secondary)
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This block of four sessions begins on 17 January 2022 and will be led by Marcus Jones and Suzanne Woodward.
This course aims to help secondary schools improve literacy in all subject areas. It places an emphasis on the importance of disciplinary literacy, making clear that every teacher communicates their subject through academic language and that reading, writing and speaking and listening demands will different from Science, to Art, to History and to every other subject in secondary school.
Costs for additional places (beyond the five included within the subscription) for subscribing schools and places for non-subscribing schools are available on request (email enquiries@learnsheffield.co.uk) but all subscribing schools currently have at least two places available at this stage.
If you have any questions about any of these sessions or would like more information please contact us.