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Challenging the More Able Student


Target Audience: Teachers and Subject Leaders in Secondary School
Course Leader: John Connor                            
Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm
Date: April 13, 2012
Venue: Holiday Inn Downtown, Shanghai, China


  
Course Leader
John Connor has been an independent team inspector for MFL and Special Educational Needs with OFSTED, and works for the Welsh equivalent, ESTYN. He is an Assessor for the Advanced Skills Teacher and Excellent Teacher scheme. He has worked for the DCSF as a consultant on the “Building Schools for the Future” capital investment project. 

John is also a training consultant for Asset Languages (the assessment system for the National Recognition Scheme) and one of the Regional Trainers in the East and West Midlands for the Secondary National Strategy Key Stage 3 Dissemination and Development Programme. He is also a Regional Subject Adviser for the roll out of the New Secondary Curriculum. He still teaches when other commitments permit. 





Workshop Aims:
  • To give teachers insights into the characteristics of higher achieving pupils
  • To analyse the nature of challenge in lessons
  • To explore the role of creativity as a tool to challenge the most able
  • To examine the role of assessment for learning in stretching the most able

Workshop Objectives:
Delegates will:
  • Learn about the characteristics of able pupils and how to identify them
  • Learn about higher order skills and the use of taxonomies in structuring challenge
  • Explore the use of creative solutions to provide challenge
  • Examine the role of thinking skills in providing challenge
  • Consider how assessment for learning can help to stretch the most able


Topics Covered/Programme 
09:30 Welcome and introduction
09:35 More able pupils – how to identify them
10:00 What do we mean by challenge? Higher order skills, Bloom and SOLO taxonomies
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Creativity – a definition. How to introduce creativity to stretch the more able
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Thinking skills approaches and dilemma-based learning. Thinking Hats.
14:30 The role of new technologies – blended web-based learning
15:45 Evaluation and close


Workshop Fee (per participant)
Regular: USD 410 (Course fee) + USD 50 (Meeting package) 
*PD Alliance Member: USD 205 (Course fee) + USD 50 (Meeting package) 

*PD Alliance Member: 
* (The PD Alliance offers a cost sharing scheme where the regular course fee for one participant can be shared between two participants registering together from the same school/organization. Two participants are required to register together to access the PD Alliance rate. PD Alliance information and member form can be accessed at The PD Alliance)

Contact Information
Workshop Coordinator: Ms. Sonthaya Chutisacha 
E-mail: sonthaya.ch@gmail.com 
Phone (China): +86 755 339 443 65 
Phone (Thailand): +66 818 465 770

To bring the workshop to your school contact: sonthaya.ch@gmail.com

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