Teaching Training Courses

We develop and deliver a wide range of courses focusing on teaching practice and behaviour management, suitable for school and college teaching and support staff, as in-house courses.

We can develop a course to suit your requirements, which can be delivered at your school or college anywhere across the UK.

Our previous courses include:

A New Approach to Initial Diagnostic Assessment in FE

  • Why have initial diagnostic assessment and what makes it successful?
  • Who should be involved in writing the IDA and what should be assessed?
  • How to write a customised, course-specific IDA
  • Links to individual learning plans
  • Learning styles
  • Spotting and identifying the hidden disabilities of dyslexia and dyspraxia
  • Constructing a targeted IDA

Coping with Challenging Behaviour in Libraries and Learning Centres

  • What do staff expect of students and vice-versa?
  • How do we get the environment we want?
  • An introduction to transactional analysis - fielding offensive and insulting comments
  • Anger management - ours and theirs
  • Handling aggression
  • An introducing to assertiveness
  • Personality types and the bill of rights
  • How to say no

Behaviour and Anger Management in the Classroom

  • Staff behaviours that escalate a crisis
  • Emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
  • The four goals of misbehaviour and the self-esteem spiral
  • The hidden disabilities – dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADD/HD, Asperger Syndrome and the implications of the SENDA and Disability Equality Duty (optional)
  • Handling our own anger
  • The rage cycle – and how to handle it

Individual Student Needs & Compliance with Disability Legislation

  • The Special Educational Needs Discrimination Act and Disability Equality Duty made simple – what staff need to know
  • The most common psychological conditions – depression, anxiety and stress, phobias
  • Obsessive/compulsive disorder, self-harm, eating disorders and suicide
  • Dyslexia and scopotropic sensitivity
  • Dyspraxia
  • ADHD, Tourette's Syndrome and co-existing conditions
  • Asperger Syndrome and autistic spectrum disorders

Demystifying Differentiation: Strategies and Solutions

  • The five components of differentiation – assessing current practice
  • Pre-assessment: multiple intelligences, learning styles, reading and developmental stages
  • The learning environment: optimum learning conditions, students' levels of concern
  • Task analysis
  • Readability activity
  • Differentiated learning using multiple intelligences, tiered lessons, strategies for specific learning disabilities
  • Differentiated assessment: methods, rubrics, problem-solving

Target Setting for Motivation and Behaviour Management

  • Who plays a role in target setting?
  • Positive and negative consequences of target setting
  • Academic goal setting
  • Four goals of misbehaviour
  • Setting behavioural targets
  • Strategies for behavioural target achievement
  • Listening and interviewing skills
  • Working with case studies

Working Together: Learning Support Assistants and Teaching Staff

  • The inclusion agenda – are you inclusive or just integrative?
  • Working in partnership – planning and implementation
  • Factors influencing learning
  • Ways of supporting students effectively
  • The role of the learning support assistant
  • Pointers to a successful partnership
  • Features of successful teams
  • Managing change

Coping with Challenging Behaviour in Schools

  • Staff behaviours that escalate a crisis
  • The child with emotional and behavioural difficulties
  • The goals of misbehaviour and strategies to counteract it
  • The four main hidden disabilities – identification and strategies
  • Managing our own anger and that of others
  • Managing aggression

Your School, Your Students and Diversity Law

  • The Special Educational Needs Discrimination Acts made simple – what staff and senior managers need to know
  • The Disability Equality Duty and what it means to your school
  • The main psychological conditions – depression, anxiety and stress, phobias, obsessive/compulsive disorder, self-harm
  • Dyslexia and scopotropic sensitivity and Dyspraxia
  • AD(H)D, Tourette's Syndrome and co-existing conditions
  • Asperger Syndrome and high-functioning Autism

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