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"Active learning techniques are a key to effective teaching. This course provides an enjoyable, interactive experience and a thorough basis for teacher and departmental development "
Bernard Whittingham, Senior Adviser, Cardiff LEA
Active Learning in the Classroom is a professional development course that utilises powerful classroom strategies to engage and motivate learners. The course provides a blueprint and framework for effective lesson planning that is based on current research and is effective in fostering teacher creativity. The Active Learning in the Classroom course is a further development of work that has raised levels of motivation and achievement in scores of primary/secondary schools. The active learning programme has also been influential in improving behaviour in the classroom.
The ‘Active Learning in the Classroom' course provides:
- An introduction to the application of up-to-date research into how students learn most effectively
- Improved lesson planning based on this research, including the five part lesson
- A wide range of highly effective active learning strategies that fit each stage of the lesson framework
- The theory underlying active learning: Effective Teaching, Multiple Intelligences, Accelerated Learning, Emotional Intelligence
- Improvement in the quality, pace, challenge and structure of lessons
- CD resources to support further classroom development
- Techniques to encourage students to be more active, reflective, successful, and thinking learners
The course is highly interactive, enabling teachers to have first hand experience of the supporting materials on classroom activities that stimulate and engage students in their learning. The strategies and activities are generic and can be utilised within all subjects in the curriculum.
Teachers will have the opportunity to adapt the active learning approaches to produce activities for their own subjects and classes as well as experiencing the range of strategies as learners.
Chris Barber has over 20 years classroom experience including having been Head of department and Deputy Head Teacher each in two comprehensive schools. He has been associated with bringing real success to the classes, departments and schools. Currently he is Director and Founder of ISSET and works as an educational consultant throughout England and Wales as well as on international educational programmes in the USA.
For further information, please contact:
Julie Woodcock , ISSET
Tel: 02920 710295
E-mail: jwoodcock@isset.org
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