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Teaching Maths, English and Soft Skills Made Easier

one-day CPD workshops from Concrew Training to help make the teaching of English, Maths and soft skills easier Example Workshop - Making Teaching English Easier ============================================= The finer points of the English language are complicated, which makes its teaching difficult; doubly so, when students' need to develop their independent thinking abilities in parallel. The ongoing need to achieve GCSEs at, or above, grade C means more learners are sitting the exams but the proportion succeeding has dropped dramatically; a new approach is needed! Moving away from traditional techniques and placing more emphasis on holistic and andragogical learning, with a stronger focus on self-analysis, collaborative study, problem solving and teamwork helps improve students' understanding, progression and success; especially in exam and real-life situations where independent thinking is so important. this one-day (6 guided learning hours) CPD worksh

Data Protection- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) UPDATE

The #GDPR is set to apply in the UK from 25 May 2018. The UK #Government has confirmed that the UK’s decision to leave the EU will not affect commencement of the GDPR.  The GDPR imposes onerous obligations on employers and fines  of up to a maximum of €20million or 4% of worldwide turnover for breaches.  It is imperative that business start to prepare for the regulations now, Concrew Training's one-day workshop on #dataprotection provides an effective launch pad for reviewing current practice and the changes that may be needed read more about it at http://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/data-protection/ #training #ukbusiness #education #hr #humanresources #management #marketing

An Introduction to Event Management - training day

A new one-day good practice workshop from #ConcrewTraining that will equip you with the knowledge and resources to organise future activities and events with confidence and professionalism more details at: http://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/event-management/ #HR #humanresources #events #eventmanagement #cpd #training #development

Action Learning and Peer Support Group Training

#ConcrewTraining are pleased to announce their new one-day workshop on setting up and running Action Learning and/or Peer Support groups more information at http://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/action-learning-peer-support-groups/ #actionlearning #peersupport #training #hr #humanresources #education #learning

Ofsted Corporate Governance Framework

#Ofsted have just release details of their Corporate Governance Framework  if this has prompted you to think more about your own corporate #governance and how you could improve it you will be pleased to know that #ConcrewTraining has a one-day good practice workshop on the same.  more details at http://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/corporate-governance-equalities/ #hr #humanresources #ceo #management #leadership #corporategovernance #fe #schools #publicsector

Assessment Using Social Media

Learn how to use #SocialMedia as an #Assessment tool within Vocational Qualifications and #Apprenticeships with this new one-day workshop from #ConcrewTraining Read the course overview at: Assessment Using Social Media  #edchat #fe #furthereducation #teachers #trainers #nvq #learning #learners #schools

Meeting the Demands of the Ofsted Annual Report 2015-2016

THE OFSTED ANNUAL REPORT 2015/16 #ConcrewTraining provides a wide range of good practice workshops designed to help #managers, #teachers and #trainers to understand and meet the challenges facing them in their quest to become an outstanding Provider. The bullet points below are extracts from the latest #Ofsted annual report. They highlight where improvement is needed The report and headline findings can be found here. OVERALL PERFORMANCE The overall performance of general #FE #colleges continues to decline. A large majority of FE Colleges that previously required improvement or were inadequate did not become good. Too few #apprenticeships deliver professional, up-to-date knowledge and skills in the  sectors that need them most and too many are of poor quality. 37% of the apprenticeship programmes we inspected this year were found to be less than good. General FE colleges continue to struggle to meet all of the requirements of study programmes University technical coll