Team Training
At Teaching 2 Inspire we can offer a half day's in-house training for the whole staff or a full day with a departmental or pastoral team at a rate you can easily afford. So often, a team member is sent for refreshment training and finds it difficult to disseminate the acquired learning effectively. Why not organise an opportunity to customise the training of your school?
We offer a wide range of training - from personal effectiveness skills or teaching and learning strategies to behaviour management and mentoring.
Down to earth, practical approaches are provided by a trainer with over thirty years' pastoral and teaching experience. Contact us to discuss any issue raised by your own management teams?
The sessions in school will help build a team approach that can become instrumental in bringing about whole school change.
The Trainer
Dennis Medway taught in a grammar school and secondary modern before moving to a large comprehensive in Chesterfield. He acquired leadership experience as Head of English, Head of Year and Housemaster before becoming Deputy Head teacher in a comprehensive in the West Midlands in 1986. In this role Dennis led change in assessment, equal opportunities, special needs, personal, social, moral and spiritual programmes and citizenship. Seconded to the Regional Staff College, Himley, for a year in 2000, Dennis helped to negotiate school training needs and delivered on personal effectiveness skills like time management, chairing meetings, delegation and management of change. In his last 3 years, Dennis became responsible for teaching and learning, school self-evaluation and school improvement planning.
In 2001 - 2003, Dennis joined the Campaign for Learning pilot project and conducted research into the use of learning styles to raise performance. Dennis also championed the use of technology and media in support of learning and he had a number of articles published in these areas. He attended the 10 day British Council visit to Baltimore in 2002 researching into leadership skills and learning practices. Work continued in helping design classrooms for a new school build initiative and Design Council policy meetings on Innovations for Learning.
Dennis piloted the Leading from the Middle programme in his school as mentor for heads of English and science and he completed the Cambridge Education Associates course on 'Effective Classroom Observation' in 2004. Retiring in 2005, Dennis has remained focused and busy by leading Campaign for Learning workshops, joining the Cocentra programme on effective schools and presenting for Creative Education on topics that relate to effective teaching, mentoring, leadership skills and preparation for pastoral appointments. He also manages a business that supplies Power Point assemblies to primary and secondary schools.
He is an active and enthusiastic presenter who can 'walk the talk'. With a love of learning and a deep respect for the importance and power of good teaching, Dennis can make all those working in the interests of children feel good about themselves and their role.
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