Pedagogy
Pedagogy is at the heart of curriculum. Schools should ensure that practitioners have a deep and thorough understanding of the principles of pedagogy, and the research on which they are based. Effective pedagogy relies on an in-depth understanding of child and adolescent development. It involves exploring and reflecting on which teaching strategies will best support learning in a given context, and inquiring about the impact of this on learners.
Metacognition with Mike Gershon
Part One: In this professional learning workshop Mike will share key practical ideas around metacognition, alongside some of the simplest, most effective ways any school can start thinking about, talking about, and implementing metacognitive strategies in the classroom.
Metacognition consistently comes out as one of the most powerful teaching and learning interventions any school can focus on to raise achievement. Top of the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, metacognition is more relevant now than ever. The challenges of the pandemic have led to many learners seeing their independent learning skills fall back. By focussing on metacognition, schools can help learners reengage with learning, reflect on their efforts, and once again feel in control of the learning process. In this training, Mike will share key practical ideas around metacognition, alongside some of the simplest, most effective ways any school can start thinking about, talking about, and implementing metacognitive strategies in the classroom.
The day will be divided into three sessions:
Session 1: Understanding Metacognition Inside the Classroom
Session 2: Making Metacognition a Practical Part of Your Classroom
Session 3: Implementation and Resource Development
Mike is running three professional learning workshops for the region on Metacognition, Questioning and Assessment for Learning - all workshops are available to book individually, although attendance at all three is encouraged as each fits together as one whole.
School leaders, practitioners (Primary and Secondary)
Date(s)1 x days - Thursday 9th February, 2023
Full day: 09:30 -16:00
Face-to-face
The Halliwell, Carmarthen
Jenna.gravelle@partneriaeth.cymru
Booking Link!
Questioning with Mike Gershon
Part Two: In this professional learning workshop Mike takes a deep dive into questioning, helping you to think about the nature of questioning in the classroom, how questions shape and direct learner thinking, and what this means for teaching and learning.
Research suggests a teacher will ask approximately 1.75 million questions across a thirty-year career. That’s a lot of questions! It’s also a lot of opportunities to stretch and challenge learners, spark creative thinking, check understanding and unlock new horizons. In this training, Mike takes a deep dive into questioning, helping you to think about the nature of questioning in the classroom, how questions shape and direct learner thinking, and what this means for teaching and learning. Together, we’ll explore and trial a wide range of questioning techniques and strategies, examining creative and critical approaches to classroom questioning that you can modify and adapt so they are tailor-made for your learners.
The day will be divided into three sessions:
Session 1: What happens when we ask a question?
Session 2: Critical and Creative Questioning Strategies for Your Classroom
Session 3: Implementation and Resource Development
Mike is running three professional learning workshops for the region on Metacognition (9/02/23), Questioning and Assessment for Learning (18/04/23) - all workshops are available to book individually, although attendance at all three is encouraged as each fits together as one whole.
School leaders, practitioners (Primary and Secondary)
Date(s)1 x days - Thursday 2nd March, 2023
Full day: 09:30 -16:00
Face-to-face
The Village Hotel, Swansea
Jenna.gravelle@partneriaeth.cymru
Assessment for Learning (AfL) with Mike Gershon
Part Three: In this professional learning workshop Mike takes you through the fundamentals of AFL, simplifying matters and connecting them at every turn to practical classroom reality. You’ll discover Mike’s three pillars of AFL, what these are, why they matter and how you can focus your teaching around them, benefitting your learners along the way.
Assessment for learning retains its efficacy and relevance today, more than twenty years after Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black published their seminal pamphlet, Inside the Black Box. The core tenets of assessment for learning are fundamentally concerned with effective and efficient teaching and learning. When assessment for learning is truly embedded in the classroom, we see teachers and learners maximising the impact of their efforts, with positive outcomes the inevitable consequence. In this training, Mike takes you through the fundamentals of AFL, simplifying matters and connecting them at every turn to practical classroom reality. You’ll discover Mike’s three pillars of AFL, what these are, why they matter and how you can focus your teaching around them, benefitting your learners along the way.
The day will be divided into three sessions:
Session 1: AFL Unlocked
Session 2: Assessment for Learning Practical Strategies: The Three Pillars
Session 3: Implementation and Resource Development
School leaders, practitioners (Primary and Secondary)
Date(s)1 x days - Tuesday 18th April, 2023
Full day: 09:30 -16:00
Face-to-face
The Halliwell, Carmarthen
Jenna.gravelle@partneriaeth.cymru
Booking Link
Schools as Learning Organisations (SLO)
A five part programme looking at how schools can use the SLO model as the basis for continuous development; specifically highlighting key strengths, areas for development and effective ways of working to enable all staff to develop professionally.
A five part programme looking at how schools can use the SLO model as the basis for continuous development; specifically highlighting key strengths, areas for development and effective ways of working to enable all staff to develop professionally. The programme has a flexible design where participants will be able to consider the specific needs of their own setting. The bespoke support provided from Partneriaeth and the lead school, will take colleagues through a selection of carefully chosen processes including:
Developing a clear understanding of a school as a learning organisation - What does it mean to be a learning organisation?
Bespoke coaching to identify ways in which to move forward.
Developing others through becoming a learning organisation.
Identifying ways forward as a learning organisation.
Headteachers and school leaders (Primary and Secondary)
Date(s)2 x 1/2 days, 3 x full days (November 10th, December 8th, January 24th, March 8th plus one further date to be confirmed)
Half Days 13:00 - 16:00
Full days: 09:30 -16:00
Face-to-face
Y Llwyfan,
Carmarthen
Jenna.gravelle@partneriaeth.cymru / Gravellej@hwbcymru.net
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Skills Integral to the Four Purposes - Creativity and Innovation 'Into the Classroom'
A professional learning workshop working with Prof Christian Byrge centred on the integral skills of Creativity and Innovation, which underpin the four purposes and which should be developed within a wide range of learning and teaching.
A professional learning workshop working with Prof Christian Byrge centred on the integral skills of creativity and Innovation, which underpin the four purposes and which should be developed within a wide range of learning and teaching. At the heart of these two skills is the importance of learners recognising, using and creating different types of learning value. These practical, collaborative sessions look at:
What are creativity and innovation as integral skills for teachers, and why do they underpin the four purposes of Curriculum for Wales.
Research, collaborative discussion and practical 'easy to tweak' resources to trial in your classroom to bring these integral skills to life.
The opportunity to join a funded 'Into the Classroom' pedagogy project to develop Creativity and Innovation as integral skills and to share your professional learning as you develop these approaches within your classroom and with schools across the region.
School leaders, practitioners (Primary and Secondary)
Date(s)1 x days - Wednesday 7th December, 2022
Full days: 09:30 -16:00
Face-to-face
The Village Hotel, Swansea
Jenna.gravelle@partneriaeth.cymru
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