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To find out how The Learning Classroom can support and take forward the "Primary Strategy Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and Teaching" (PNS) in your primary school, click here.

 

This course is available as an INSET. Please contact the Alite office for details.

 

The Learning Classroom

 

All you need to know to start the Accelerated Learning journey

 

Accelerated Learning is a holistic model of learning which allows teachers to plan, deliver

and observe within an easily understood framework.

 

The Learning Classroom will answer these questions for you:

  • What is Accelerated Learning? 
  • Is Accelerated Learning for me?
  • Where do I go with Accelerated Learning?
  • How do I make a start?
  • Why does it make a difference?

 

This programme from Alite shows you how to use the Accelerated Learning cycle. It will

help you begin to transform learning in your classroom and your school. If you are keen to

freshen you thinking about learning, build your confidence as a classroom practitioner or

re-invigorate learning across your school The Learning Classroom is for you!

 

The Learning Classroom is designed in three areas of focus: learning, learners

and leading. It provides a model for thinking about learning, the theory behind it, video case

studies of Accelerated Learning in action and practical classroom tools for starting out.

 

Participants will have the opportunity to:

 

Learning

  • use a structure for learning with learners in mind
  • discover the Accelerated Learning principles
  • experience the AL Cycle and be shown how to use it to design and deliver powerful learning experiences
  • see classroom examples of Accelerated Learning at work

 

Learners

  • recognise, accommodate and celebrate different learning needs
  • find out the five attributes of successful learners and how to track them
  • consider how to recognise, celebrate and accommodate difference
  • make learning itself a focus of learning
  • pay attention to factors that motivate learners

 

Leading

  • see how expectation shapes performance
  • consider the influence of language on self and others
  • receive practical classroom management tools
  • restore some of the excitement into learning
     
The Learning Classroom
Overview of programme content :

 

Day One

Learning- a structure for learning with learners in mind!

  • what Accelerated Learning is, and what it isn't!
  • what are the principles that underpin Accelerated Learning?
  • the AL 4 stage planning cycle
  • learn from others: video case studies from schools in the UK

 

Learners - recognising, acknowledging and providing for differing learning needs

  • confident and independent learners - but how?
  • how different is different?
  • better use of questioning strategies
  • formative feedback in the AL cycle

 

Leading - self, others and the environment

  • how to:  create a positive start
    • use room layout to effect
    • manage movement
    • make group work effective
  • put creativity first
  • model the learning
  • developing a language for learning

 

Throughout the programme you will be finding out about:  

  • How to take Accelerated Learning forward in your school or classroom
  • How to overcome obstacles
  • Managing change for the better
  • What Alite can do for you

 

Read more about the trainers who work on this programme:
Sarah Mook | Nick Austin | Simon Percival | Will Thomas | Bruce Potts | Gavin Kewley

Cath Daley