3 Key Outcomes:
- Understand behaviour management from a child development perspective and use your understanding to create relationships with students that are purposeful and productive.[Level 1]
- Understand how and why children defend themselves when learning or learning environments become overwhelming and how to respond rather than react to off task behaviour. [Level 2]
- Understand more about the principles that underscore your Authority; where does it come from and how can you take charge of your classroom in a way that fits both with their needs and your personality? [Level 2]
Watch the cheesy promo...
Teaching with half a mind on 'behaviour' means using only 50% of the mental capacity available to you and your students
The best and most productive classrooms are ones where teacher and students are relaxed and minds are open and ready to learn. They are places of human warmth, mutual trust and collective endeavour.
However, learning is, of itself an anxiety provoking business - it requires that students step into the unknown! And when we are anxious in any way, we expend mental resources on solely trying to find 'safety'. It's the way we are wired. We cant help it!
So...the fundamental challenge for teachers then is to create classroom environments that are, as far as possible, calm, free of anxiety and full of possibility.
This is the premise of this course: when we understand how and why students want to learn and how they are instinctively wired to connect and create relationships - we can begin working on a much deeper, more effective and fun level with them. We can calm their worries, contextualise their disruptive behaviour and create classrooms environments where you and your students bring all of their focus, skills and passion.
Steve Carr, PGCE, Film and English Teacher, MA(Psych) and Founder of A Mind to Teach.
Pricing
All Packages Include:
- Nine Hours of Video Content broken down into accessible 3 part lessons [Theory, Practice, Application]
- Illustrated Workbooks for every lesson
- A quiz to embed and consolidate learning in every lesson.
- A 'scheme of work' so learners can see the overall learning journey ahead
- A 'what to do with a training like this' book of suggestions for individuals, teams studying together and whole school Cpd sessions.
- Links to blog posts and membership of the A Mind to Teach Community
- Access to email support from Steve.
Just Me: for myself
Lone Wolf, Neophile or just taking the initiative to invest in yourself. Take the training at your own pace and apply it in your own time.
£128.00
Iman, Science Teacher
"Every teacher should have this opportunity. I feel very lucky."
Andy, Music and Drama
"Inspiring"
Jennese, Lead Ofsted Inspector
"Steve's academic research and ability to sensitively yet purposely support and challenge during his [live] sessions are invaluable. Highly recommended."
Unique, affordable, accredited and essential CPD for every teacher
Know Teachers' Standards inside out
Understanding how students learn and why they behave the way they do means that teachers naturally embed Teachers' Standards in their everyday practice rather than bolt them on as another set of obligations to remember.
Course Structure
“…we in education understand that our naked subjectivity is the only means we have to relate to others….” Brad Olsen, Teaching What they Learn. (2011)
This course puts the relationship between the teacher and the learner in its proper place.
Teachers are the bridge between the student and the learning. It follows then that the students need to feel that the teacher can be trusted and that they hold the students 'learning safety' as their highest priority.
Every teacher wants to create that feeling for their students and yet because we are dealing with the subtleties of emotions and building relationships with individuals, the skillset has to learned, fostered, practiced and nurtured.
The three levels of A Mind to Teach the course are structured to offer teachers insights into:
1. How relationship formation and connection is formed in early childhood how to adapt their practice to work with this natural learning instinct in a balanced and effective way.
2. The mechanisms students sometimes use to keep themselves safe when things get tough; how to listen to their behaviour rather than react and to take charge of themselves and the classrooms in a way students naturally crave.
3. How to thrive in the matrix of relationships that is the wider school context by understanding what every member of the school community is looking for.
Need to know more...
The content and structure, approach. Teachers' Standards, CPDSO accreditation...
Early Years? Primary? Secondary?
Primary School and Early Years teachers may wonder whether the course is applicable to their setting.
The theory that underpins the course is based on the psychodynamic model and looks at the lifelong influence of the early relationship between infant and carer. It highlights how this first relationship serves as a psychological blueprint for all other relationships we enter into, particularly the teacher/learner relationship.
Modules in Level Two focus on developing teachers confidence and resilience. Module 4 is about overcoming psychic defence mechanisms of students of any age Module 5 is about understanding 'Authority' and asks teachers to audit and understand how their own early influences imoact their classroom leadership..
The theory lessons can be applied to any teacher/learner relationship in any setting. However, to be clear, some of the In Practice lessons come from practice in secondary school.
