Available Courses

• Foundations for successful mentoring and coaching

  • Teacher: Max Coates

  

  The aim of this module is to provide participants with opportunities to reflect critically and systematically on this particular context of practice. The module seeks to enable participants to interrogate their understanding of standards and values in relation to professionalism in the area of mentoring and coaching at all levels and to develop skills in supporting the development of other members of the profession set against the backdrop of published professional standards.
• Special Education Needs Co-ordinator

  • Teacher: Katina Offord

  Our Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators course is an innovative new course which trains students to identify, assess and teach children with the seven learning difficulties most commonly encountered in mainstream schools.
• Communication for teachers & trainers

  • Teacher: Professor Rosemary Sage

  

  In a global world where we live, learn and work with others from very different communication and cultural backgrounds there is an urgent need for us to become more aware of the issues that affect our interactions. Classrooms and workplaces only function if communication is effective but only 25 % of our face-to-face exchanges are successful. In a world where we are constantly striving to improve performance this area of knowledge and practice can not be ignored. Flexible on-line courses with tutor and peer support are the answer where time and economic resources are precious.
  
  For more information or to enrol visit our Communication for teachers and trainers course page
  
• Strategies for successful Special Needs support

  • Teacher: Peter Gossage
  • Teacher: Jan Traves

  

  This course is designed to give teachers and assistants who work with children with special needs, a body of knowledge about types of special needs and of techniques that can be used to support learning. Covering the most frequently found needs, candidates will have to demonstrate an understanding of both bodies of knowledge and demonstrate how they relate.
  
  For more information or to enrol visit our
  Strategies for Successful Special Needs Support page
  
• Leadership for teachers and trainers

  • Teacher: Peter Gossage

  

  This course is a way of developing your strategic leadership skills by introducing you to ideas and exercises aimed at helping you develop your strategic leadership skills. Leadership skill is developed through experience, exposure to effective role models, familiarity with theoretical leadership models, personal reflection, feedback and the study of personal heroes who inspire you. This course is aimed at leadership teams in schools including senior and middle managers.
  
  For more information or to enrol visit our Leadership course page
  
• Teaching assistants professional development

  • Teacher: Peter Gossage

  

  If you work as a Teaching Assistant supporting childrens’ learning you may be interested in our Teaching Assistant course. The programme of study has been designed and written with your role in mind, enabling you to develop some very specific skills that will make your input to children’s learning even more effective. Regardless of the age group you work with, the range of ability of the children, the subjects covered or even which country you work in, this course has something for you.
  
  For more information or to enrol visit our Teaching Assistant course page
  
• Action research

  • Teacher: Peter Gossage

  

  Action research is both a way of solving a problem with what you do and the process by which you find the solution. An action researcher wants a solution. The process is an attempt to gain a better understanding of what you do.
  
  Action research did not start in education. Once its possibilities became clear, it was applied to education some thirty years later, largely as a result of a work by Lawrence Stenhouse in 1975.
  
  Today, individuals still undertake action research as a means of developing their action and their research. By researching their action, they can action their research.
• Time for admin

  • Teacher: Peter Gossage

  

  A course for administrators in schools to increase your understanding of the world of education, its opportunities and constraints. This is valuable to you whether you have been involved with schools for a day, a year or a lifetime.
  
  For more information or to enrol visit our Time for Admin course page
  
• Starting out with an interactive whiteboard

  • Teacher: Julie Cogill
  • Teacher: Anthony David

  

  A multimedia introduction to using Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom for absolute beginners. This course leads to the Certificate of Educational Studies
  
  For more information or to enrol visit our Interactive Whiteboard course page
  
• Foundations in leadership for medical practitioners

  • Teacher: Peter Gossage

  

  In the UK, leadership is firmly on the NHS (National Health Service) agenda and training programmes for doctors.
  

  "It is not enough for a clinician to act as a practitioner in their own discipline. They must act as partners to their colleagues, accepting shared accountability for the service provided to their patients. They are also expected to offer leadership and to work with others to change systems when it is necessary for the benefit of patients."

  Such an agenda is typical, worldwide. This Strategic Leadership Programme is designed to help you learn how to:

  • create strategy
  • plan
  • build morale
  • develop administrative expertise
  • form and maintain effective relationships
  • create alliances
  • build trust.

  This programme will help you to develop these skills to make you more effective in your role and will help you to develop those people who report to you and without whom you cannot succeed.