IN-SCHOOL TRAINING COURSES 94%...IN-SCHOOL TRAINING COURSES 94% of all teachers attended Dragonﬂy training courses in the last 12 months gave us a ‘5 Star’ rating, our highest

IN-SCHOOL TRAINING COURSES

94% of all teachers attended Dragonfly training courses in the last 12 months gave us a ‘5 Star’ rating, our highest level of feedback

Cutting Edge AfL TechniquesIdentifying and embracing the latest and most effective AfL strategies

It may be time to review your current assessment for learning practices in order to ensure they are as effective as possible. This course will present a complete, up-to-date system of assessment for learning and explain how to embed it into all teaching and learning.

This course aims to:Give an overview of all tried & tested AfL techniques that raise academic standards

Provide lesson-ready techniques for oral questioning and modelling

Explain 12 ways to mark and 20 different ways toprovide feedback

Demonstrate how AfL leads to deep learning

Offer a toolkit of quick ways to assess students’ progress

Narrative Frameworking: A Revolutionary New Approach to Creative Writing (Juniors)An inspirational approach to teaching reading, writing, literacy and creativity

This course will:Demonstrate an incredibly effective and proven approach to improving extended writing and literacy, and show how narrative frameworking empowers students to unleash their creativity

Demonstrate these ideas through hands-on training techniques that will truly inspire you!

Embed inspirational strategies into extended writing teaching to ensure all learners are catered for

Illustrate outstanding techniques for improving student writing through effective feedback

“Narrative frameworking” is an outstanding new methodology for teaching pupils to read, write and speak most effectively. Creative writing can prove incredibly difficult for many students, and for some it remains a huge barrier to success. This extraordinary course offers a unique solution through a range of strategies to help motivate, inspire and re-educate children to write effectively.

A Practical Guide to Effective Differentiated LearningChallenge students to achieve, whatever their ability

Challenging students of different abilities is vital to achieveoutstanding overall progress in your school. This course will provide your school’s teachers with a plethora of ideas, tips and lesson structures to ensure that all students are appropriately challenged. It will offer a new perspective that takes into account EAL and learning style issues but will, most importantly, be grounded in the realities of international school pedagogy.

This course aims to:Provide a range of proven lesson-ready strategies that reflect best practice from around the world

Demonstrate how to adapt these strategies to specific age ranges

Explain how to develop a successful differentiatedlearning classroom

Implement ideas that are low on teacher time but high on effective differentiation

“Excellent course. Well delivered, good humour but most importantly a wealth of new ideas to use in the classroom.”

Gary Cooper, St George’s International School

“I have undertaken several lessons now where I have used the children's samples of work as a model to show the class. The results were really positive. Thanks for the great ideas and helpfulness in helping to move the children forward!”

Ian Stephens, BVIS Hanoi

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TEACHING AND LEARNING COURSES

All these courses and many others can be offered as bespoke INSET or are available as hosted courses. Contact us for details.


This course aims to:Demonstrate how to use key words and phrases to help learners structure their speech and improve their listening skills

Explain how to set up group work for effective discussions

Illustrate how active reading can be achieved through a full range of strategies

Showcase realistic ways in which all teachers can support writing skills through different planning techniques, accurate punctuation, and the development of sentences and paragraphs

This course aims to:Demonstrate how numeracy can improve the quality and effectiveness of learning

Provide practical examples of numeracy strategies that cover all areas of the curriculum

Add countless numeracy-rich lesson ideas to your repertoire of teaching strategies

Demonstrate how to embed numeracy ideas into your current work without sacrificing content

Independent learning can be one of the most powerful strategies to raise academic standards and develop confident, motivated and self-reliant students. The course will explore the very nature of motivation and how to improve it, it will look at why students learn to be dependent and how we can coax them into taking responsibility for their own learning, and will also look at how digital tools can be used to support true independence.

This course aims to:Demonstrate the evolving role of the teacher in modern independent learning

Highlight the importance of the changing role of students and their learning

Construct outstanding independent learning lessons for your subject

Show teachers how to reflect on and evaluate a range of techniques to encourage students down the path of independent learning

Provide effective strategies for encouraging independent learning that can be used the very next day

Improving Literacy Across the Curriculum

Improving Numeracy Across the Curriculum

Creating Independent LearnersTransforming the way students learn, progress and achieve

Improving levels of literacy and numeracy amongst learners is one of the most important steps a teacher can take towards raising attainment in the classroom. To achieve the highest grade in an inspection there has to be evidence that students are developing crucial literacy and numeracy skills which will enable them to become confident individuals, lifelong learners and successful adultsin the workplace.

IMPROVING LITERACY AND NUMERACY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM Meeting curriculum demands whilst maintaining academic excellence

Stretch and Challenge Your Most AbleAdvanced learning for advanced results This course will demonstrate how pupils will fare better and at a higher educational level after they have left you. Best of all, this is achieved by them working harder and you working less. We will explore the role of ICT and digital learning and show how both add value to teaching and learning. This course is about the pedagogy of teaching, not the technology. This course aims to: Identify the key elements of learning and how it differs from performance

Remove the limitations of what your students can achieve

Demonstrate how to invert Bloom’s Taxonomy to transform learning

Offer a wealth of experience and lesson ideas for stretching and challenging all students

Provide a comprehensive range of course materials and ideas that can be used the very next day

“Excellent presentation, demonstration and illustrations. Practically orientated. Very stimulating and informative. I reached some ‘aha’ moments!”

Martha Obiri, Premier Academy, Kenya

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This course will:Equip teachers with the rudiments of English grammar

Provide a range of strategies to help improve students’ speaking, writing, listening and comprehension skills

Show how a range of teaching techniques - from Venn diagrams to video

New methods of teaching English to non-native speakers at primary level are emerging with such rapidity it’s often difficult to know which approaches to adopt and which ones to abandon. This course shows how to blend face to face teaching with independent learning/self-study (in the class and at home) which is made possible through the utilisation of new technology and IT.

This course will:Introduce radical new ways to engage with traditional methods and materials

Show ways that technology can be used to teach English as an additional language

Demonstrate cutting-edge methods that enhance studentinterest and participation

Blended Learning (Primary/Secondary courses available)A new approach to mainstream EAL

This course shows just how quickly and easily the iPad can beintegrated into your classroom, whilst also demonstrating how students can be guided to create a vast range of materials and resources like videos and books that aid their acquisition of English. Quite simply, this is the device of the future and the benefits for EFL teachers are immeasurable.

This course will:Introduce radical new ways to engage with traditional methods and materials

Show ways that technology can be used to teach English as an additional language

Demonstrate cutting-edge methods that enhance student interest and participation

This day provides an essential refresher course on numerous aspects of English grammar and is packed with tips and tricks to help you learn and teach the fundamental rules of language. The course is crammed with great ideas and resources, and is ideal for teachers who have to cover language classes - plus those who feelunder-confident about how the language works.

It is also ideal for those who merely wish to brush-up on their knowledge. So if you're wondering just why that apostrophe goes where it does, or if you're having trouble sorting your phrasal verbs from your third conditionals, this is the course for you.

Using iPads to Teach EAL/EFLAdd dynamism to your teaching with the revolutionary device of the future

EAL - English Language Teaching for the Non-Specialist TeacherThe course that gives you the confidence to teach English effectively

EAL COURSES

“Very useful and clear to understand, also enjoyable and fun. Can’t wait to practice more and use the method and technology at my school!”

Supawan Kingnate, Harrow International School

“Brilliant course. Very useful, quick and effective strategies for the non-specialist EAL teacher.”

Joanna Burgon, Garden International School

Blended Technology: PCs, Tablets,

Mobile Devices




Mobile technology is not a panacea; in fact, get it wrong and you can have a lot of pupils wasting their time. However, get it right and you can have truly outstanding lessons with pupils working to their maximum potential.

The iPad has the potential to transform the learning experience. iPads can turn the student from a consumer of information into a creator of it. Their unrivalled reliability compared to laptops has been firmly established, as has speed of access, ease of use, battery life, and the intuitive nature of most apps – the iPad is an aid, not a barrier to learning. How many IT-based educational ‘solutions’ of the past can we say that about?

We are the biggest provider of subject-specific iPad training in the UK, all of which can be tailored to your school’s requirements.

This course aims to:Enable teachers to use iPads effectively to support learning, whatever their prior experience

Explore how iPads can transform learning and make students work harder than your school’s teachers do!

Allow your teachers the opportunity to try out and use the most effective apps to support their subject area

Provide a totally hands-on day to allow delegates to confidently put into practice what has been learned

Explore and discuss flipped lessons and the possible future of education

Using iPads and Mobile Devices in the ClassroomUtilising technology efficiently, effectively and transformationally in any classroom

Subject-specific iPad training:

Geography PE Science Maths MFL DT English Art and Design RE History Music SEN SLT EAL

Alternatively, opt for our iPad course, suitable for all teachers, all subjects and all school phases...

Be based on your school’s technological needs

Offer training for your teachers’ specific skill levels

Provide solutions and ideas for your classroom

Inspire your students whilst raising their attainment

Revolutionise your teaching

These courses will demonstrate how the iPad can revolutionise teaching and are delivered by some of the UK’s leaders in the educational use of iPads. Teaching can be significantly enhanced by the use of the iPad, but only if you get it right. These superb courses showcase the very best of contemporary practice, and will:

DRAGONFLY’S iPAD COURSES

“Time flew! Some really useful apps and a nice concept. Allowed investigation without loss of lesson time, thank you.”

Victoria Keohane, Harrow International School

“I think it’s the best course I have ever attended throughout my entire 25 years of experience. I am looking forward to attending further training courses in the future. Thank you so much!”

Amal Nayef Qassem, Head of Secondary, New English School Kuwait

Dragonfly has delivered iPad courses around the world...



Leading a subject area effectively is one of the most important elements in securing high quality teaching and learning in all schools. By focusing on your role as a leader of learning, this course will help you to establish and maintain your vision, get the best out of your team and ensure high quality outcomes - all whilst maintaining sanity, perspective and the all important work-life balance.

This course aims to:Offer realistic and practical solutions to problems relating to staffing, resources and performance

Provide delegates with the very latest information regarding ways of working with data

Focus on leadership of learning as the core role of leadership

Leave you feeling enthused and energised with increased confidence in your ability to lead

This course is designed to meet the needs of those aspiring to senior leadership and those already in a senior position. Delegates will examine the key ways of inspiring other teachers to become better than they thought they could be. We will discuss difficult and complex issues and provide solutions to ensure delegates make the most effective decisions.

This course aims to:Identify your leadership style and consider how it can be used to best effect

Explain the key components of high impact presentations to inspire and motivate others

Offer advice on strategic leadership and the development of management skills

Promote discussion on decision making and time management

Consider how to develop a high performing team

Promote a highly effective system of school quality control

This course is for Heads of Year, Heads of House, Key Stage Coordinators and colleagues aspiring to these positions. Form tutors and learning mentors will also thrive on the material, insights and activities offered. This INSET will give you a crash course into countless excellent and successful ways of being an effective and inspirational leader of any pastoral system.

This course aims to:Create and share a vision for an effective pastoral system

Identify key aspects of your role and empower you to help others to become passionate about pastoral care

Enable you to put coaching and mentoring systems in place

Suggest ways of motivating repeat offenders, achieve with underachievers and celebrate the successful

How to be a Highly Effective Subject LeaderThe ‘must do’ course for new and aspiring subject leaders

Senior Leadership in a 21st Century SchoolProven leadership strategies for aspiring and existing senior leaders

Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Pastoral LeadershipCreating a more effective pastoral system and becoming a better leader

LEADERSHIP COURSES

“A thoroughly enjoyable course with lots of useful and practical information and tips that I can use straight away.”

Graham Foxley, Ridgeway School

“An excellent course. Very helpful not just in a conceptual sense, but also in terms of good practical advice.”

Stephen Leigh, Ewell Castle School

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IN-SCHOOL TRAINING COURSES 94%...IN-SCHOOL TRAINING COURSES 94% of all teachers attended Dragonﬂy training courses in the last 12 months gave us a ‘5 Star’ rating, our highest