| LEARNING TO THINK (day or half day) |
 This course is based on our title ‘Learning to Think’. It will help curriculum managers to decide how to support thinking across the curriculum and teaches how to stimulate thinking in their classrooms. Participants will learn about:
- the best ways to teach for thinking and transfer in schools
- creating a climate for teaching in the classroom
- sharing better questions and asking questions better
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| TEACHING FOR UNDERSTANDING (day or half day) |
 This course is based on our title ‘Teaching for Understanding’. It will draw on ideas from work on teaching for understanding in the USA to help participants examine the way they teach a course or a topic and reflect on how they can redesign it to help pupils understand the key ideas more effectively.
In particular participants will learn how to:
- focus on the key understandings in a course or a topic
- devise activities that help pupils to make sense of what they are learning
- develop ways in which pupils can perform their understanding
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| DIFFERENT IN SIMILAR WAYS (half day or twilight) |
 This course is based on our title ‘Different in Similar Ways’. Research has given us a much clearer understanding of the different ways people approach learning. This course explores the practical implications of this: how children learn in school, how teachers themselves prefer to learn and how this affects the way they teach. Participants will learn:
- about our current understandings of multiple intelligences
- to deal more effectively with ‘big picture’ and ‘step-by-step’ learners
- to use a wider range of visual, auditory and kinaesthetic techniques in their classroom
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