About this event

This session will focus on the importance of taking care of yourself and managing your workload and the expectations of your role. We will explore some of the challenges faced by ECT’s and some useful strategies you can use to help you to improve your time management and planning.
We will also look at ‘mindfulness’ and how this can help you to maintain a healthy work life balance and your well-being.

Audience: ECT's and RQTs.

Cost
·        Free with ECT SLA Option 4
·        £26 + VAT with the ECT SLA 1 - 3
·        £40 + VAT without the ECT SLA

About this event

This course/session will revisit the value and importance of talk and oracy in the classroom to support learning.
Colleagues will consider a range of practical ideas and strategies that can be used in the classroom to promote talk and improve pupils’ oracy
As a result, colleagues will:
·        Be more confident in planning and developing ‘talk for learning’ opportunities – ‘oracy’ using a range of practical strategies/activities
·        Have a deeper understanding of progression and expectations re: talk
·        Take away a ‘toolkit’ of practical ideas and strategies that you can use to effectively support oracy (talk for understanding) in the classroom

Audience: ECT, RQT’s and teaching assistants
Cost:
·        £50 + VAT with an NQT SLA
·        £70 + VAT without an NQT SLA

About this event

This session will develop colleagues understanding of metacognition, what it is, how it supports learning and how to develop pupils’ metacognition and self-efficacy in the classroom. We will explore some of the key messages shared from the EEF research around metacognition and the importance of explicitly teaching and modelling metacognitive strategies.
As a result, colleagues will:
·        Be more confident in planning and developing learning opportunities to support and promote pupils’ meta-cognition
·        Have a deeper understanding of metacognition and how to develop pupils’ ability to self- regulate their learning
·        Take away a ‘toolkit’ of practical ideas and strategies that you can use to effectively support the further development of pupils’ metacognitive abilities in the classroom

Audience: ECT, RQT’s and teaching assistants

Cost:
·        £50 + VAT with an NQT SLA
·        £70 + VAT without an NQT SLA

About this event

This session will provide an opportunity for you to consider how you develop professional relationships with parents and engage them with their children’s learning. We will review the key messages from the research undertaken by the EEF and also a range of strategies to engage the hard to reach parents. We will also discuss how to prepare for ‘parents’ evenings’ and engage parents in positive learning conversations. As a result, colleagues will,
• develop an increased understanding of parental involvement and engagement and its impact on children’s learning
• review a range of strategies to support and nurture parental relationships
• be confident and prepared to engage in conversations with parents about any issue
Audience: ECT, RQT’s and teaching assistants
Cost:
• £50 + VAT with an ECT SLA
• £70 + VAT without an ECT SLA

About this event

This session will be delivered in the summer term of Year 1.
It provides an opportunity for colleagues getting ready to complete their first year to:
·        Reflect on individual strengths and areas for development
·        Prepare ECT’s for their statutory professional review meeting with their Induction Tutor/Subject Mentor
·        Begin to prioritise key areas for further professional development in the next academic year (including possible leadership opportunities)
·        Share their thoughts with other ECT’s and listen to colleague’s experiences

The intended outcomes of the session are for ECT’s to be able to:
·        Reflect on their strengths and areas for development.
·        Be confident that they have prepared to have an insightful discussion concerning their progress and career aspirations with their induction tutor during the professional review meeting.

Audience: ECT’s only

Cost
·        Free with ECT SLA Option 4
·        £36 + VAT with the ECT SLA 1 - 3
·        £60 + VAT without the ECT SLA