October Newsletter - Secondary Educators

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Welcome to your October newsletter. We hope you’re enjoying some well-deserved rest over the half term break. As ever, we’re here to support your professional development needs, whether you are looking to develop your subject knowledge, wanting to dive deeper into key topics such as DE&I, or seeking career progression – we have courses to support you on your journey. Continue reading below to see our highlighted courses for this autumn term. 

 

Live CPD

NUCO: First Aid for Youth Mental Health

This is a one-day online course leading to a qualification that will be valid for three years. Subject to successful assessment you'll receive a level 2 award in First Aid for Youth Mental Health. 

The qualification has been designed with children and young people in mind covering areas such as depression, self-harm, eating disorders and bullying. You will gain the knowledge and skills to identify a potential mental condition, start a conversation and provide support and guidance.

The qualification is suitable for anyone who actively connects with children and young people such as parents, carers, teachers, youth group leaders and young adults. 

10 November 2021 at 08:30-16:30 GMT 

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Using ResultsPlus to support mock exam data analysis 

ResultsPlus is a free online results analysis tool for teachers that gives you a detailed breakdown of your students’ performance in Pearson Edexcel exams. It will enable you to plan and implement intervention and support for your students to raise attainment and build confidence.  

These live webinars will explore how you can use ResultsPlus to get the most out of the data from your mock exams.   

We'll start with a refresher of the basics, before our subject expert teams take you through a deep dive showing how to use that data to identify gaps and ensure you've got the tools to hand to support the subsequent intervention and revision cycle. 

There will be three events taking place over November for the following subjects. 

  • History - 06 December 2021 at 16:00-16:45 GMT 
  • Maths - 08 November 2021 at 16:00-16:45 GMT 
  • English - 08 November 2021 at 16:00-16:45 GMT 

Find out more and register now  

On-demand CPD

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Educators 

This course is designed to help educators to engage a range of anti-bias, multicultural and social justice issues and provide them with strategies and tools to help their learners understand, appreciate, include, and advocate for those around them. 

There are 3 modules within the course. 

  • Turning Inward 
  • Turning Outward  
  • Turning to Action 

Find out more about each module  

Children's Brain and Emotional Development 

This five-hour course will help you to understand children’s emotional and psychological states in the context of exciting new research into the brain, body and nervous system. Developed by a leading Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, the course provides insights into the effects of early experiences which can be directly applied to your work with children and young people. 

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Using Assessment Insights 

This session will help teachers measure the right things in the right way so that they can plan effective and valuable assessments.

Considering how assessment, assessment data, and insights all relate to the curriculum goals, it will focus on how to gather useful information; what the pitfalls of assessment and gathering data are, and how you can make it come alive to positively inform your classroom practice. 

Learn more

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