Research has shown that audience attention in teacher-led lessons begins to wane every 10-20 minutes. Active learning is the perfect solution to counter this drop-off in engagement

An active approach to learning allows students to develop the essential skills for life-long learning. This course provides the opportunity for practitioners to engage with research-based strategies, practical advice and actionable pedagogies.

Benefits of this course:

• Actively engage with innovative teaching methods
• Opportunity to be in the position of the learner and utilise innovative ideas
• Consider a wealth of learning tools that makes students more responsible for their own learning
• Improve your ability to develop communication and thinking skills in your students.

Course Outline

Active learning: Developing your pupil’s enquiry, decision- making and problem solving skills

• Deeper Questioning – ask better, deeper questions and expect the same from your pupils
• Deeper learning – challenge pupils of all levels of ability
• Equip your pupils with the skills to answer their own questions
• Establishing exactly what concepts your learners still do not understand to better target intervention

Active, collaborative and cooperative learning strategies for your pupils

• Helpful “pupil talk” to facilitate quality discussion
• The role of peer- tutoring to improve memory and improve the use of metacognitive strategies
• Developing peer to peer critiquing strategies

Presenter Profile

Malcolm Drakes is a Leadership & EDI Associate with JMC Education. He has a career in education spanning over 24 years. Malcolm has been a Headteacher and Executive Leader since 2011, working with large school groups in the UK and internationally.

In these roles, he has improved schools from Special Measures to Outstanding, established a Teaching School and was part of the bid team that won the contract for the new National Institute of Teaching. Malcolm delivers the NPQs for five of the national providers and is an assessor for both the specialist and leadership qualifications.

Feedback from teachers on this course

“It was informative, constructive and invaluable for me”
- Melanie Westlake, Head of Science, Saint Felix School

“Really illuminating and motivational”
- Jemma Walker, The Market Bosworth School

Cost: £150 per delegate

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