Are you committed to the idea of assessment for learning, but unsure of how to put it into practice? Do you want assessment to influence the way your pupils think and learn? This course is about making it happen in the classroom, and is a continuation of our highly successful Active Assessment Project. The course is highly interactive and engaging, emphasising pupil thinking and talking through a comprehensive range of quick and simple but effective strategies. Active Assessment resources are available at a discounted cost as part of the course.

“When I used the Active Assessment strategies, it got more pupils thinking more of the time.”

Do you want to use strategies that make your life easier, lessons more enjoyable, and learning more creative and engaging? This interactive course offers an answer. Concept Cartoons are an accessible and motivating approach to teaching and learning in science and mathematics. The course illustrates why, when and how to use Concept Cartoons, and is a continuation of our highly successful Concept Cartoons in Science Education Project. Concept Cartoon resources are available at a discounted cost as part of the course.

“When I used the Concept Cartoons I couldn’t stop them learning.”

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Are you looking for new ideas and fresh approaches to teaching science with young children? This creative workshop will give you plenty of inspiration. It relates to the Early Learning Goals and National Curriculum, but it’s much more than that. It’s about helping children to observe more carefully and think more creatively about their world. “I was so enthused I went back to school feeling ready to do exciting science with my class and with the rest of the staff too.”

"I was so enthused I went back to school feeling ready to do exciting science with my class and with the rest of the staff too."

Are you interested in an exciting and innovative way of developing your practice in science or maths? This hands-on course demonstrates how puppets can provide an engaging stimulus and promote dialogic teaching in science or maths. It builds on our research in the highly successful Puppets Promoting Engagement and Talk Project, and enables you to become confident in using puppets yourself. It is suitable for all age ranges (not just KS1) and teachers working with pupils with SEN, providing an ideal way for specialist secondary schools to link with their partner primary schools. Puppets and other resources are available at a discounted cost as part of the course.

“A brilliant course. I have to get my colleagues to come to this.”

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Why not let them eat cake? This innovative course takes a thinking approach to healthy eating, using interactive teaching and learning strategies to challenge some of the typical assumptions in this topic. Building on extensive research, it links science, nutrition and history in a cross-curricular topic, meeting the requirements of the primary strategy and the new KS3 curriculum. Innovative support material includes fictional video clips, extracts of unique 1930’s food diaries and a wealth of original resources to challenge and develop pupils’ ideas. Rational Food Project resources are available at a discounted cost as part of the course.

“It’s the first time I have seen a class really engaged with talking about healthy eating.”

Are you sitting comfortably?  Ricky, Nana, Jasmin and Benny will get you off your seat.  These animated stories create challenging problems for children to solve.  They help children to think more, talk more and enjoy science more. Spellbound Science and other resources are available at a discounted cost as part of the course.

“Fantastic!  Wonderful ideas to work on.”

Do you view pupil talk as a problem or as a starting point for learning? This course recognises the value of pupil talk, and sets out some of the connections between talking, thinking and learning. It builds on recent research into dialogic teaching and argument, and links with current national strategies, including the new KS3 curriculum. It offers a range of creative ways to get pupils engaged in lessons, promote their thinking and enhance their learning.

“This is the first course I have been on where I can’t wait to get back to school to try things out.”

Are you looking for new ways of inspiring your trainee teachers? Don’t you wish that somebody would come up with something really innovative? Well here it is. This interactive and engaging course, designed specifically for trainee teachers, helps them to make more sense of teaching and learning in science or maths. It offers them a range of simple, accessible strategies to get pupils thinking, talking and sharing their ideas. It builds on recent research into dialogic teaching and assessment for learning, and links with current national strategies. The course draws on two of our highly successful projects, Active Assessment and Concept Cartoons. Active Assessment and Concept Cartoons resources are available at discounted cost to trainee teachers as part of the course.

Get young children looking, thinking and talking with this innovative resource. The course offers a range of inspiring ideas to stimulate young children and uses Active Assessment strategies to get them to interact and communicate. The course is normally run by Gaynor Weavers. Made you look, made you think, made you talk resources are available at a discounted cost as part of the course.

Have fun with Science! This innovative approach to science enquiry helps pupils to revise and consolidate science enquiry skills through a set of interactive games. The course is normally run by Anne Goldsworthy or Bob Ponchaud. Science Enquiry Games resources are available at a discounted cost as part of the course.