INSET That Doesn't Look Like INSET
The 'Surgery' Model of INSET and Other Possibilities
Who says that sticking your entire staff in the hall with a complete stranger for five hours is the only way of spending your training day?
Although a full day's INSET has its uses, at Independent Thinking we have been pioneering innovative ways of working with staff during a training day.
One model has been for staff to work with our Associate in small groups (perhaps department groups or year teams) for smaller lumps of time through the day in what we call a 'surgery model'.
The staff take it in turns to bring specific issues, questions or challenges and, with the Associate, generate practical, relevant and realistic solutions and ideas that can be used immediately in the classroom.
We can then top and/or tail the day with a full staff address if necessary. The schools who have experienced this way of working find the experience really useful.
It is quite something to be able to sit across the table from the so-called 'expert' and say, 'Look, I've got a year seven class on Thursday afternoon and we have to do this work on Slavery - what would you suggest that will engage multiple intelligences and memory strategies?'. Or, 'I want to do this revision lesson on Coastal Erosion with year ten, how can I do it in way that uses Mindmapping?'
We can then not only generate creative ideas that will help but also model to the teachers the thought processes we go through in tapping into what is known about learning, thinking and motivation.
Click here to see the list of topics on which we can deliver this unique surgery-model training along with the Associates who specialise in the topic.
To find out more about Independent Thinking's unique 'Surgery Model'- or to explore with us any other ideas you have in mind to break the traditional INSET day mould - call Julie in the Independent Thinking office on 0709 239 9617 or e-mail us at learn@independentthinking.co.uk
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