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BSME CPD Programme, in partnership with Dragonfly, offers
How to Utilise an Interactive Whiteboard Most Effectively in a Classroom
Continuing Professional
Development Programme
www.bsme.org.uk
The programme at a glance
Theme Interactive Whiteboards
Provider Dragonfly
Speaker(s) Peter Dawes
Target Audience All Primary and Secondary staff
Number of Days One day course
Dates Monday 27th
January 2014
Booking deadline
Wednesday 11th
December 2014
Location Gulf English School, Kuwait
Timings 8:30am to 3pm
Cost BSME Member: £250 Non-BSME Member: £325
What is included
Delegate handouts, BME Certificate of Attendance, lunch and refreshments.
The Provider: Dragonfly Training is an internationally renowned teacher training company based in the UK, committed to
delivering inspirational, practical and realistic training. We were established in 1999 and have since grown to become a
market leader in delivering in-school, hotel-based and host-school CPD courses both in the UK and abroad.
Over the past five years, we have delivered successful teacher training to over 20,000 teachers in the UK and to teachers
from over 100 schools worldwide. Our hand-picked team of experienced trainers are all experts in their field and combine
an outstanding contemporary understanding with incredible subject knowledge.
In 2008, Dragonfly launched its international branch to meet the increasing demand for courses abroad as our excellent
reputation spread. Having delivered courses throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Dragonfly International
remains a highly successful CPD provider worldwide.
The trainer:
Peter Dawes
Peter was a full-time teacher of languages in the U.K. for 17 years, as well as teaching
English abroad. He is one of Dragonfly’s longest-serving trainers and has been involved
in delivering IWB training since their inception in the UK. More recently he has
extended this training all over the world (Europe, S.E. Asia and Africa) and has helped
well in excess of 1,000 teachers to get the most from their whiteboards, his feedback
showing almost exclusively ‘very good’ or ‘good’ ratings.
English, Maths and Languages have been his specialities, but all subjects have been
covered at both primary and secondary level.
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Learning Outcomes
Provide the ideas and software that need to create engaging class activities that can be used with any brand of board. Quickly!
Go beyond using your board as a glorified projector screen.
Equip teachers with ready-made lesson materials for the whiteboard. The course material we supply contains a wealth of subject-specific digital resources to use in your school.
Who should attend?
Teachers new to the IWB
Those wishing to go beyond using their IWB as a glorified projector screen!
Experienced IWB users who wish to extend their repertoire and discover huge time-saving tips
Testimonials
Fantastic, hands-on and snappy workshop filled with tangible activities and ideas which can be immediately used in the classroom. Many thanks! Kyla Kopperud, NIST, Bangkok Peter is an excellent trainer - great balance of professionalism, knowledge and humour. Ali Taisel, Alice Smith School, Kuala Lumpur
A very practical session with lots of easy but effective activities. The style of paired and group demonstrations allowed for productive discussions. I have already planned how to incorporate these into my teaching! Amy Austin, ABCIS, Vietnam
The Programme
Time Session Day 1 8.30
Registration and refreshments
Session 1: Practicalities, starting out
Getting started – quickly and efficiently
Not just a glorified projector screen….Looking at the tools at your disposal
IWB built-in resources, and how best to manage/access them
First hands-on tutorial
Session 2: Best uses of your IWB
Classroom management – appropriate uses for your IWB
Dealing with text
Subject and age-specific ideas (according to make-up of audience)
Using the IWB to inject creativity and inspiration
Second chunk of hands on practice, guided or open-ended according to taste
Session 3: Adding pace and variety to your lessons
Exploiting sound, image, video, hyperlinking
Integrating your existing resources and avoiding re-inventing them!
Starters, plenaries, quizzes
Exploring the large bank of resources you’ll be leaving with
Pointers for future development of your IWB use
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BSME CPD Programme, in partnership with Dragonfly, offers
Make Your Classroom An IPAD Classroom
Continuing Professional
Development Programme
www.bsme.org.uk
The programme at a glance
Theme iPads in the Classroom
Provider Dragonfly
Speaker(s) Peter Dawes
Target Audience Primary and Secondary
Number of Days One day course
Dates Tuesday 28th
January 2014
Booking deadline
Wednesday 11th
December 2013
Location Gulf English School, Kuwait
Timings 8:30am to 3pm
Cost BSME Member: £250 Non-BSME Member: £325
What is included
Delegate handouts, BSME Certificate of Attendance, lunch and refreshments
The Provider: Dragonfly Training is an internationally renowned teacher training company based in the UK, committed to
delivering inspirational, practical and realistic training. We were established in 1999 and have since grown to become a market leader in delivering in-school, hotel-based and host-school CPD courses both in the UK and abroad. Over the past five years, we have delivered successful teacher training to over 20,000 teachers in the UK and to teachers from over 100 schools worldwide. Our hand-picked team of experienced trainers are all experts in their field and combine an outstanding contemporary understanding with incredible subject knowledge. In 2008, Dragonfly launched its international branch to meet the increasing demand for courses abroad as our excellent reputation spread. Having delivered courses throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Dragonfly International remains a highly successful CPD provider worldwide.
The trainer:
Peter Dawes
Peter was a full-time teacher of languages in the U.K. for 17 years, as well as teaching
English abroad. He is one of Dragonfly’s longest-serving trainers and delivers training
throughout the UK. In recent years he has extended this training all over the world
(Europe, S.E. Asia and Africa) and has helped well in excess of 1,000 teachers to get
the most from IT - Whiteboards, Learning Platforms, Web Tools and now iPads. His
feedback shows almost exclusively ‘very good’ or ‘good’ ratings.
English, Maths and Languages have been his specialities, but all subjects have been
covered at both primary and secondary level.
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Aims To explore ways in which iPads can promote creativity and collaboration with a range of free or inexpensive apps
Intended Learning Outcomes Provide a clear vision of how iPads can radically
enhance, not just replicate, previous technological advances
Equip teachers with the confidence to use and integrate their iPad(s) into normal lessons
Show the potential of the iPad to transform the classroom
Demonstrate engaging and imaginative ways to exploit the iPad
Make teachers aware of common misconceptions surrounding iPads
Who should attend? Teachers new to the iPad
Those wishing to do more with an iPad than merely replicate what a PC/Mac does!
More experienced users who wish to extend their repertoire and discover how best to integrate iPads into everyday classroom use
Testimonials Fantastic, hands-on and snappy workshop filled with tangible activities and ideas which can be immediately used in the classroom. Many thanks! Kyla Kopperud, EAL Coordinator, NIST, Bangkok Peter is an excellent trainer - great balance of professionalism, knowledge and humour. Ali Taisel, Teacher, Alice Smith School, Kuala Lumpur
A very practical session with lots of easy but effective activities. The style of paired and group demonstrations allowed for productive discussions. I have already planned how to incorporate these into my teaching! Amy Austin, Head of Department, ABCIS, Vietnam
The Programme
Time Session
Day 1 8.30
3:00
Registration and refreshments Session 1 Getting Started
What can an iPad do? Overview and time-saving tricks
Creative tools that work brilliantly in lessons
Collaborative tools that enable creativity to be shared and honed
Some vital DOs and DON’Ts Session 2: Best uses of your iPad
20 brilliant things to do with an iPad
App review – the must-have apps and how to ‘keep up’ in your subject
iPads and AfL - The perfect way to show progress
It’s not the app, it’s what you DO with the app! Session 3: Adding pace and variety to your lessons
Using iMovie in lessons
iBooks author and e-book authoring - what is the excitement about?
Integrating use of iPads into your classroom practice
Storage issues and trouble shooting Finish
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BSME CPD Programme, in partnership with Dragonfly, offers
Assessment for Learning
Continuing Professional
Development Programme
www.bsme.org.uk
The programme at a glance
Theme The Very Latest in Assessment for Learning
Provider Dragonfly
Speaker(s) Steve Garnett
Target Audience All Primary and Secondary Staff
Number of Days One day course
Dates Tuesday 29th
April 2014
Booking deadline
Wednesday 12th
March 2014
Location Kuwait English School, Kuwait
Timings 8:30am – 3.00pm
Cost BSME Member: £250 Non-BSMEMember: £325
What is included
Delegate handouts, BSME Certificate of Attendance, lunch and refreshments.
The trainer:
Steve Garnett is a teacher, author and one of Dragonfly Training’s senior trainers. He regularly delivers realistic and practical CPD sessions across the UK and throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Over the past 10 years, Steve has delivered teacher training to over 8,000 teachers, many of whom have described his approach as “inspirational”. Steve’s education publications have been extremely well-received. His latest book, ‘The Subject Leader’, was shortlisted for a prestigious Education Resources Award and an earlier publication, ‘Using Brain Power in the Classroom’, was praised by a TES review.
The Provider: Dragonfly Training is an internationally renowned teacher training company based in the UK, committed to
delivering inspirational, practical and realistic training. We were established in 1999 and have since grown to become a market leader in delivering in-school, hotel-based and host-school CPD courses both in the UK and abroad. Over the past five years, we have delivered successful teacher training to over 20,000 teachers in the UK and to teachers from over 100 schools worldwide. Our hand-picked team of experienced trainers are all experts in their field and combine an outstanding contemporary understanding with incredible subject knowledge. In 2008, Dragonfly launched its international branch to meet the increasing demand for courses abroad as our excellent reputation spread. Having delivered courses throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Dragonfly International remains a highly successful CPD provider worldwide.
Aims
Identify how assessment for learning can help students take the next step in their learning
Enable delegates to engage in the latest methods of implementing assessment for learning
Include strategies of effective questioning, effective marking and how to get pupils to self-assess
Demonstrate how to embed all this practice into your daily teaching
Intended Learning Outcomes By the end of the session colleagues should be able to
Identify the broad features of AfL Apply the principles of AfL to everyday teaching Understand the impact of meaningful AfL
practice on achievement and attainment
Testimonials
If every teacher in the world taught like Steve Garnett the world would be a much better place. Thank you for such an inspirational session. Maha Yasin, Deputy Head Teacher, New English School, Amman Fantastic, practical ideas to instantly use in the classroom. Rob Stephenson, Teacher, St Christopher’s School, Bahrain The course was organised, accessible and very informative. It showed me ways to promote active learning, independent learning and ways of extending and improving writing. There was plenty of food for thought and application provided. Deirdre Brady, Head of English, St Gerard’s School, Republic of Ireland
The Programme
Time Session 8.30
Registration and refreshments Session 1: Brief outline of main features of AfL What are the main components of AfL? Why should we do it? Session 2: Learning Objectives : What they are and what they aren’t Explicit success criteria Effective Questioning - The ‘Tigger’ Protocol and Socratic questioning Session 3: Peer/Self assessment Formative feedback – Feedback and Feed-forward
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BSME CPD Programme, in partnership with Dragonfly, offers
Thinking Skills
Continuing Professional
Development Programme
www.bsme.org.uk
The programme at a glance
Theme Successfully embed thinking skills into any subject
Provider Dragonfly
Speaker(s) Steve Garnett
Target Audience All Primary and Secondary Staff
Number of Days One day course
Dates Wednesday 30th
April 2014
Booking deadline
Wednesday 12th
March 2014
Location Kuwait English School, Kuwait
Timings 8:30am to 3:00pm
Cost BSME Member: £250 Non-BSMEMember: £325
What is included
Delegate handouts, BSME Certificate of Attendance, lunch and refreshments.
The trainer:
Steve Garnett is a teacher, author and one of Dragonfly Training’s senior trainers. He regularly delivers realistic and practical CPD sessions across the UK and throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Over the past 10 years, Steve has delivered teacher training to over 8,000 teachers, many of whom have described his approach as “inspirational”. Steve’s education publications have been extremely well-received. His latest book, ‘The Subject Leader’, was shortlisted for a prestigious Education Resources Award and an earlier publication, ‘Using Brain Power in the Classroom’, was praised by a TES review.
The Provider: Dragonfly Training is an internationally renowned teacher training company based in the UK, committed to
delivering inspirational, practical and realistic training. We were established in 1999 and have since grown to become a market leader in delivering in-school, hotel-based and host-school CPD courses both in the UK and abroad. Over the past five years, we have delivered successful teacher training to over 20,000 teachers in the UK and to teachers from over 100 schools worldwide. Our hand-picked team of experienced trainers are all experts in their field and combine an outstanding contemporary understanding with incredible subject knowledge. In 2008, Dragonfly launched its international branch to meet the increasing demand for courses abroad as our excellent reputation spread. Having delivered courses throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Dragonfly International remains a highly successful CPD provider worldwide.
Aims To explore types of thinking processes and understand how to deliver them in the classroom
Intended Learning Outcomes By the end of the session colleagues should be able to: List a range a teaching ideas that embed thinking
skills Apply these ideas into their own teaching Evaluate the effectiveness of thinking skills in
promoting better understanding for pupils
Who should attend? Both primary and secondary staff.
Testimonials
If every teacher in the world taught like Steve Garnett the world would be a much better place. Thank you for such an inspirational session. Maha Yasin, Deputy Head Teacher, New English School, Amman Fantastic, practical ideas to instantly use in the classroom. Rob Stephenson, Teacher, St Christopher’s School, Bahrain The course was organised, accessible and very informative. It showed me ways to promote active learning, independent learning and ways of extending and improving writing. There was plenty of food for thought and application provided. Deirdre Brady, Head of English, St Gerard’s School, Republic of Ireland
The Programme
Time Session 8.30
3:00
Registration and refreshments Session 1: Exploring different types of thinking and how to teach them Inductive thinking
‘Skittles’
Colour coding
Mapping Information Processing
Collective memory
B2B Session 2: Exploring different types of thinking and how to teach them (cont) Reasoning
16 grid thinking
Crucial lines
Living graphs
Reading images
Relational circles Session 3: Exploring different types of thinking and how to teach them (cont) Creative thinking
Metaphors and analogies
Anthropormorphinisim
Relational circles
Thinkers Keys Finish