T2TUK Spring Academy Workshops Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th March 2010

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

Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th March 2010

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 Win-Win Discipline Day 1&2

Create discipline solutions where you win and your students win. Gain a new perspective on discipline problems and come away with tools that really work. Convert every disruption into a learning opportunity. Go beyond ending disruptions- teach responsible behaviours and life skills. In this Win-Win Discipline overview, you will learn all the basics: To identify the four types of disruptive behaviour; to recognise the seven positions from which they spring; and what to do in the moment of disruption. Learn to follow-up and to prevent future disruptions. Experience the power of the most comprehensive approach to discipline ever created.

  • Boost your confidence in handling all types of disruptions.
  • Experience effective strategies for today's students.
  • Promote responsible behaviour.
  • Understand why students misbehave.
  • Experience the world's most comprehensive approach to discipline.
  • Prevent discipline problems- be free to teach!.