Concrew Training

Concrew Training, think so; Developing and delivering well structured, highly focussed and effective feedback offers the biggest impact on student progression and achievement of any teaching and learning strategy. Consequently it is one of the key criteria “Ofsted” use to measure outstanding teaching and learning: ‘learners understand how to improve as a result of frequent, detailed and accurate feedback from staff following assessment of their learning’. For feedback to be truly effective it needs to focus the student on what they have done well and specifically what they need to next to maintain their progression. It needs to be tangible and transparent, easily understood, user-friendly and referenced to the students goals and targets. It also needs to be timely, ongoing, consistent and friendly. This is not easy, even for the most experienced teachers and trainers. Most teachers and trainers will give feedback but most offers little benefit and much will actually be counter

The need to differentiate and develop a differentiated learning environment or classroom is widely preached – and with good reason too, but what does the term differentiation actually mean? More importantly what does a differentiated classroom look like and how is it best achieved? Effective teaching needs to be aligned to the needs of individual students. The teacher/trainer needs to take account of the individual students’ knowledge, abilities and learning styles and then deliver the lesson or course in a way that enables individual students to maximise their learning, development and progression. On a one-to-one basis this is relatively easy but as the group or class size increases this becomes a complex and potentially daunting task. More at: http://concrew-training.co.uk/?page_id=199

The NAHT look to be planning to discuss just such a proposal at their forthcoming conference http://www.teachingpersonnel.com/news/2014/4/28/naht-make-inspection-part-of-heads-duties/

One of the biggest challenges facing organizations, teachers and trainers in delivering Grade 1 ‘outstanding’ lessons and training sessions, is lack of time. Time to plan and prepare learning is essential – but at always at a premium – consequently most lessons and training sessions have to be developed quickly with minimal preparation and resources. This one day workshop explores ways to reduce burden and improve effectiveness http://concrew-training.co.uk/?page_id=194

Concrew training offer one day workshops on managing challenging behaviour in the classroom and library; designed to help teachers, trainers and library staff focus on their real jobs http://concrew-training.co.uk/?page_id=327

http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/apr/27/headteacher-behaviour-management-learning-students

Colleges must be stronger in fighting government decisions, says policy advisor Ben Nicholls. Here he shares five ways to get the people in power to sit up and listen. http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/apr/24/further-education-cuts-colleges-fight-government