Learning to Learn Conference. Birmingham. 12 December 2008
This conference will look at the research background of learning to learn but will also offer delegates the opportunity to make links with current government policy and agendas. This is a practical conference designed for those wishing to implement learning to learn in their school. Delegates will find out the latest developments in the Learning to Learn agenda including:
– Practical learning to learn approaches that are creating motivation and raising achievement in schools across the country
– How learning to learn is a key catalyst in developing your 2020 approach to Personalising Learning
– What part Learning to Learn plays in the Every Child Matters outcomes
– Implementing the SEAL framework in the classroom
– Developing a competency based curriculum based on Learning to Learn following changes in KS3 orders
– How learning to learn is the first step to creating independent learners
– The new exciting future of learners with ICT in schools
– Cover Bug – an amazing new system for covering absent teachers and students’ learning to learn.
Speakers include:
Ian Gilbert, Independent Thinking Ltd
Jackie Beere OBE
Tricia Hartley, Chief Executive, Campaign for Learning
Workshops include:
– Implementing learning to learn in your school – Garry Burnett, AST and author of ‘Learning to Learn’
– Family Learning: keen to develop your work with families? – Juliette Collier, Campaign for Learning
– SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) in action: teach what really matters – Jackie Beere OBE, Consultant and author of ‘The Learner’s Toolkit’
– A competency based curriculum – Catherine Johnson, Citizenship Co-ordinator, Cheslyn Hay Sports and Community High School
– Philosophy for children, or questions that make your brain hurt – Iain Gilbert, Independent Thinking Ltd
This event costs £175 plus VAT. Please click to view the conference flyer.
For more information or to book a place, please click here or alternatively visit www.campaignforlearning.org.uk and follow links for events. Alternatively contact Karla McLaren on 020 7766 0010 or kmclaren@cflearning.org.uk.
