Botheredness Teacher Development Programme with Hywel Roberts
Following his huge success at the Head Teacher Conference, and as a result of popular demand, Education Durham are pleased to confirm that Hywel Roberts is delivering a five session Botheredness Teacher Development Programme, starting in October 2024.
The programme will offer colleagues ways of refreshing and re-examining their own professional practice whilst giving opportunity to explore tried-and-tested approaches that promote oracy, story, creativity, ethical citizenship, relevance, optimism, awe and wonder. It’s a programme to keep us all bothered.
The programme will explore:
Developing practice with professional imagination and rigour; Being creative in a concrete system; Employing discerning pedagogical decisions; Storytelling and learning: how narratives can support progress in core areas; Embracing enactive practice through Drama pedagogy; Encouraging great oracy across the curriculum; Powerful Botheredness models as a boon to creative practice and bringing the abstract to life; Imaginative acetates – how curriculum intent is implemented creatively using practical examples; moving from engagement to investment in learning; Building the bridge between published and lived curriculum; How our teacher persona and stance impacts learning and progress.
Session dates:
10 October 2024, 09.30 – 15.30, Durham Leadership Centre, Spennymoor
27 November 2024, 09.30 – 15.30, Durham Leadership Centre, Spennymoor
17 January 2025, 09.30 – 15.30, Durham Leadership Centre, Spennymoor
26 March 2025, 15.30 – 17.00, (via MS Teams)
20 June 2025 13.00-15.30, Durham Leadership Centre, Spennymoor
Cost:
Partner: £150 per person
Non-partner: £285 per person
For more information or to book a place please email cpd@durham.gov.uk
In focus – the early years curriculum
Friday 15 November 2024
9.00am to 4.15pm
Durham Leadership Centre
Spennymoor
DL16 6YP
Education Durham are pleased to be delivering an Early Years Conference on 15 November 2024 with keynote speaker Jan Dubiel, specialist in Early Childhood Education.
Based on developments undertaken during the Education Durham Early Years Curriculum Project, the conference will explore the principles and process of effective curriculum design and implementation, look at the importance of learning behaviours, share school developments through a wide range of workshops, and support schools in reflecting, refining and developing practice and provision.
Do not miss out on our early bird offer: book a place by 30 September 2024 and secure your place for £120 per person (bookings received after 30 September will cost £150 per person).
For further details or to book a place please email cpd@durham.gov.uk