T2TUK Autumn Academy Workshops Thursday 5th & Friday 6th November 2009

2 x 2 Day Workshops The Deanwater Hotel, Wilmslow Road, Woodford, Sk7 1RJ

Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November 2009

Only £270 + VAT

Workshop 1 :

Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures for Active Engagement Day 1&2

For those colleagues who are new to Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures. This workshop introduces the basic (P.I.E.S.) principles of CL as well as 10 excellent Kagan Structures with rationale and help planning them into your own classroom practice.

Want to enagage students? Want to raise test scores? Do you want teacher-friendly strategies to implement tomorrow? These workshops are for you! You will experience cutting edge teaching structures to create classroom success now and forever! In addition, you will learn management tips, how to form effective teams, stategies for creating a cooperative class through teambuilding and classbuilding, and why cooperative learning produces gains when group work often fails. Finally, a workshop that has practical, hands-on ideas grounded in sound research and theory.

  • Create a positive learning environment through fun and easy classbuilding activities.
  • Experience why group work doesn't work.
  • Create success for all by eliminating "hitchhiking".
  • Save valuable time and energy with easy-to-use structures that make lesson planning a snap.
  • Engage all students throughout each lesson with NEW cooperative learning.
  • Keep students on task, and effectively manage disruptions with engaging structures.

Workshop 2 :

Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures for Higher-Level Thinking Skills Day 1&2

In this dynamic, hands-on workshop you will experience simple instructional strategies to engage and develop the fifteen most fundamental thinking skills.adopt simple structures to develop each of these skills with no time away from your academic curriculum! Learn now to embed the thinking skills into how you teach, so every lesson becomes a thinking skills lesson. Improve academic engagement, retention, and achievement- but most importantly, prepare every student with thinking skills they will use for a lifetime!

  • Explore the 15 most fundamental thinking skills.
  • Develop thinking skills as part of every leson.
  • Create success for all by eliminating "hitchhiking".
  • Integrate thinking skills across your curriculum.
  • Put team dynamics to work.
  • Jump start student's critical and creative thinking.
  • Prepare students for a rapidly changing world.