Reignighting The Joy of Learning

A workshop for teachers, Sencos, Classroom Assistants, Learning Mentors, and others who want to add to their repertoire of teaching, rapport-building and influencing skills, both in and out of the classroom.



This will be on interest and benefit to people at all or any level of teaching experience

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Reigniting the Joy of Learning

CRAFTY CLASSROOMS With: Michael Mallows Curiosity - Resposiveness - Assertiveness -  Focus - Thoughtfulness - Yes!

On: 15 November 2011 Times: 10am to 4pm Venue: Hampstead Town Hall Centre, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP Cost: £120.00 per person, including lunch and refreshments – see below, you may be eligible for funding! Who is it for:

Teachers, Sencos, learning mentors, home tutors, and others who want to motivate, inspire and more effectively influence those they teach and mentor.

What is it:  A different approach to communicating with the ‘hard to teach’ and increasing their Emotional Intelligence by modelling the attributes of crafty listening: CURIOSITY RESPONSIVENESS ASSERTIVENESS FOCUS THOUGHTFULNESS YES!

How is it different? Unlike more conventional training, there is no fixed agenda Issues that delegates bring on the day determine the content of exercises, but the emphasis is on process Discussion about people who are not in the room is curtailed The focus is on increasing your influencing skills Exercises and discussions that help to develop confidence and competence for modelling and teaching the techniques to students, mentees, etc., via the Art and Craft of listening Techniques to help learners reconsider limiting beliefs and bed-rock assumptions that impair self-awareness and self-motivation No role-plays!

What does it offer?  Models, theories and techniques based on solid research and sound theory. Some will probably be familiar to you; others might offer new perspectives, and all of them can be taught fairly easily to your learners. Such as? *Logical Levels of Change *Linguistic Icebergs *NLP *Representational Systems *Caring Confrontations *Time to Think *NLP *Reversal Theory *Clean Questions*Action Learning Questions *Well-formed Outcomes *Descriptive Praise

The Facilitator Michael Mallows FAPHP ran a therapeutic adolescent unit in North London for eight years, where he developed many of the techniques and principles that he introduces in Crafty Classroom workshops and other Crafty events. Michael has been training, coaching, consulting and supervising people in the public, private and voluntary sectors for over 30 years, working with teenagers, parents, teachers, individuals, teams and groups at all levels of status, experience and expertise. Read more at www.interchange.org.uk

 

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