IMPROVING BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING

FOR EARLY CAREER TEACHERS FROM ALL KEY STAGES
(IN 2ND, 3RD, 4TH, or 5TH YEAR OF TEACHING in England & Wales)

IMPROVING BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (TnC/7)
Aligned with Teacher Learning Academy (Stage 1) – see ACCREDITATION below

LEAD TUTORS:
Paul Howard and Pete Hrekow – Dreyfus Training

DATES:
Initial Seminar:
Wednesday, 25 and Thursday, 26 November 2009
(Dinner plus B&B will be provided on 25 November 2009)

(Seminar begins at 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday and ends at 2.45 p.m. on Thursday)


Participants will be enrolled in a dedicated internet forum at the initial seminar so they can continue dialogue (with peers and tutors) about behaviour for learning and related classroom management issues over subsequent weeks until:


Follow-up Seminar:
Friday, 5 February 2010
(Follow-up seminar: 10.30 a.m. to 3.45 p.m. Participants with more than 1½ hr journey can request B&B on 4 February – details at initial seminar)

VENUE:
Stoke Rochford Hall, (the NUT’s Education and Training Centre), nr Grantham, Lincolnshire NG33 5EJ. (Easy access A1 and free parking. Free taxi can be requested from/to Grantham Station – 15 minutes journey.)

AIMS:
To enable early-career teachers to build on their successes to date by:

reviewing and further developing their classroom and behaviour management skills and adding to their ‘toolkit’ of approaches that work;
deepening their understanding of how pupils’ learning and behaviour are linked and influenced by classroom organisation and culture as well as teacher/learner relationships; and
refining effective strategies which promote behaviour for learning.

EXPECTATIONS:

Participating early-career teachers will review and learn during an initial two-day seminar; then try out appropriate strategies/approaches in their school/classroom during the school-based weeks between the seminars (supported by the online discussion forum); and at the follow-up seminar reflect on and share what they have learned and develop their personal action plan for the future. All participants receive a personalised NUT CPD Certificate.

ACCREDITATION:


Participants who fully complete this teacherstogether course (and are registered with GTC England) will be eligible to gain Teacher Learning Academy professional recognition (Stage 1) accreditation. TLA (Stage 1) – at £95 only available through NUT CPD – is OPTIONAL (the fee is not included in ‘COST’ below); and full details, guidance and support for this online process will be provided before and during the initial seminar.


COST:
£25 (NUT members); £125 (others). Includes VAT, lunches, refreshments on all seminar days and dinner with B & B on 25 November.


NUT members will be able to claim their travel expenses (receipts must be provided except for car travel where reimbursement will be based on mileage). The Union cannot pay for supply cover – costs are eligible for funding from professional development funding delegated to schools. GTC (Wales) offers CPD bursaries to all teachers in Wales.




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