Online Continuing Professional Development

• Biology
• Business Studies
• Chemistry
• Computing
• Design & Technology: Food Technology
• Design & Technology: Product Design (3-D Design)
• Design & Technology: Textiles
• Drama & Theatre Studies (AS)
• Drama & Theatre Studies (A2)
• Economics
• English Language B
• English Literature B
• Geography
• History
• ICT
• Law
• Maths
• Physics A
• Psychology A
• Religious Studies
• Sociology (AS)
• Sociology (Unit 3)
• Sociology (Unit 4)

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These web conferences will enable you to gain a better understanding of A-level Biology, in light of the examination series this summer.

Our web conferences are online interactive sessions where you can:

• key in questions for trainers
• participate in typed 'chat' sessions
• take part in polling activities.

This web conference is relevant for all teachers of AQA A-level Biology.

Our trainers Martin Rowland (Chair of Examiners) for AS and Graham Read (Chief Examiner) for A2 will focus on:

• theory units examined this summer AS (Unit 2) / A2 (Unit 5)
• giving you confidence in understanding the assessment objectives
• providing strategies for improving student performance
• tips on good examination practice and technique.

Time 4.15pm – 6.15pm

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Robert Lang shows how to use online Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the teaching of key topics in GCSE Geography.

This web-conference is relevant for all teachers of GCSE Geography irrespective of specification or examination board. Come along to learn

• about the GIS available free on the web
• how to use GIS to enhance your teaching of GCSE Geography
• how to approach key topics using GIS
• how to improve your students' questioning and research skills
• teaching strategies to enhance students' engagement.

Time 4.15pm – 6.15pm

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In our new CPD web conferences on Developing listening skills in GCSE French, German and Spanish, Senior Examiners Ron Wallace (French), Fiona Wilson (Spanish) and Alan O'Brien (German) focus on:

• how to address the problems inherent in listening work
• teaching strategies to improve students' performance
• examining requirements, with emphasis on the higher paper
• new style exam questions
• classroom resources that you can use straight away.

Time 4.15pm – 6.15pm

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Difficulties often arise as a result of one or more of three factors:

• the situation
• the behaviour of the other person or group
• your own response to the behaviour of others.

This web conference will help you to identify and assess the source and reason for the difficulty. You will consider the skills and techniques for preventing difficult situations arising or developing, and for managing these situations more effectively when they arise

During this conference you'll learn:

• How to assess the difficulty using a 3 factor model
• To identify what you can and can't change
• Frameworks to focus on desired outcomes
• Language to achieve rapport
• Strategies for dealing with a range of difficult behaviours
• The part played by blind spot feedback
• SCOPE coaching model to promote behavioural change

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'Through' reminds us that change is a journey, a process towards a desired outcome. It is people who go through the change. By understanding stages of change and how people progress through them, you can better support and understand the feelings, behaviours and responses of the people you manage. Many people feel they dislike change, but it is the only thing that brings progress and change is inevitable. However, our reactions to change aren't.

During this conference you'll learn:

• To consider how people perceive change
• Five keys to managing people through change
• Self management techniques
• The stages people progress through and how to support them
• To change thinking to impact on feelings and behaviours
• The importance of taking control

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How often do you hear people say "there just aren't enough hours in the day"? The reality is we can do nothing about the number of hours in the day, but we can do lots of things to make sure that the way we use those hours is as efficiently and effectively as possible. Work in a focused way, smarter to achieve all those goals, targets, dreams and ambitions. Time management skills help you keep work under control and at the same time keep stress to a minimum.

During this programme you'll learn:

• To assess yourself in terms of time management skills
• How you can monitor your use of time
• How 'to do' lists can work more effectively with techniques for prioritising and action planning
• Prioritisation tools and techniques
• Urgent/Important Matrix approach
• Action Priority Matrix
• Effective scheduling
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Improving Self Motivation

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Feedback can be both positive and constructive. It is most useful within a culture of learning and development, rather than within a punitive one. While giving positive feedback is relatively easy, being a manager/teacher can involve occasions when it is important to give constructive feedback too. This web conference helps you to develop a range of effective strategies and techniques to make feedback central to success.

During this conference you'll learn:

• When and why do we give feedback?
• Principles of effective feedback
• Three models for providing difficult feedback
• The sandwich technique
• The 4 step approach
• The SCOPE coaching model
• Applying the models
• Modelling good practice in the classroom

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How powerful are your questioning skills? Just how well do you use questions to engage, motivate and develop your team and your students? Appropriate questions, asked skilfully, contribute to significant improvements in learning, development and leadership. The art of questioning is at the heart of learning: teaching, assessing, differentiating, coaching, motivating, developing thinking skills and creating critical thinkers. Questions are essential to these skills and more! It's about asking the right questions to get the right thinking to enable you to lead and unlock motivation.

During this programme you'll learn:

• How to develop the art of questioning
• To use key coaching questions that lead learning and development
• Types of questions that manage and empower
• How to use questions to improve thinking skills and raise achievement
• To use effective questioning to engage people and unlock motivation

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