Seminars for Teachers

The Super Generation assists schools raise students’ aspirations though its Learn2Lead Seminars and provides students with the latest learning tools in its Learn2Learn Seminars. For these seminars to have maximum effect, teachers need to understand and reinforce the content of the seminars within their classes. Thus, we offer the following seminars to teachers.

 

For this reason, The Super Generation delivers the following seminars to teachers and school staff:

 

 

Raising Students' Aspirations

This two-hour seminar is an adaptation of the student seminar Raising Aspirations and it shows teachers how they can support students following the student seminar.

  • Raise students' aspirations.
  • Help students deal with disempowering beliefs and change them to empowering believes
  • Assist students in creating a personal vision, goals and actions.
  • Inculcate a sense of positivity, optimism and gratitude into the school.

 

Learn2Learn For Teachers

 

This seminar is about teaching with the ‘Learner in Mind’. Ideally it is taken by teachers in conjunction with the Learn2Learn for students.

It is delivered as a half or full day programme. The full day provides teachers with practical skills that can be incorporated into the classroom with ease.

 Possible areas include:

  • Learning Styles – Understanding and engaging students with different learning styles.
  • Understanding the brain for ideal teacher and student performance.
  • Teaching with Learning in Mind – A model for engaging the learner.
  • Memory, regular review and the power of expectation and reinforcement.
  • Introduction to Mind Mapping.
  • Introduction to Memory Strategies.
  • Practical Exercises.

 

 

Mind Mapping and Memory Strategies for Teachers

Mind Mapping is now world-renowned. At the heart of Mind Mapping is the combination of imagery, colour and visual-spatial arrangement, which is proven to significantly improve information recall, compared to conventional methods of note-taking and learning.
 
Mind Mapping is now a core part of the ‘Learning How to Learn curriculum’ in many countries. Mind Maps promote active learning, foster motivation, improve confidence, support a diverse range of learning styles and levels of ability – all in a fun way! While teaching is about getting the learner to understand content, it is also essential that the learner is assisted in developing appropriate memory strategies to aid recall. Such memory strategies are taught on this course.

At the end of this training, teachers will have the confidence to use Mind Mapping as a teaching tool and also support their students use of Mind Maps as an organisation, planning, learning and creativity tool. Teachers will now teach with memory in mind and will be able to assist learners devise appropriate memory strategies for their curricular work.

Contents

This hands-on practical seminar is tailored to each audience. Key elements of the seminar include:

  • The brain and how it processes information.
  • The left and right brain.
  • The Buzan rules for Mind Mapping.
  • Mind Mapping as a teaching and learning tool.
  • Mind Mapping – a practical experience.
  • The difference between Mind Mapping IN and Mind Mapping OUT.
  • How Mind Maps improve memory.
  • Note-taking during a non-structured presentation.
  • Making good memory Mind Maps.
  • The Journey Method – Using Association and Imagination to aid memory.
  • Creative sentences and mneumonics.
  • Practical applications for Teachers.

The Super Generation’s trainers of Mind Mapping, are trained by Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Mapping and are Buzan, Licenced Instructors in Mind Mapping.

 

Kaizen for Schools

Kaizen, is a Japanese philosophy of continuous, incremental and never ending improvement. The Super Generation, Kaizen for Schools seminar is about taking aspects of this philosophy and applying them in a school context.

The value of a whole school Kaizen philosophy is explored. Staff undertake structured brainstorming to create a vision for educational excellence within their school and initial steps for continuous, incremental improvement are agreed.

Contents

  • SWOT analysis of school, under specific headings.
  • Brain storming on school Excellence.
  • Introducing the Kaizen Philospohy.
  • Structured individual, group and whole staff brain-storming.
  • Initial steps for continuous, incremental improvement.
  • Introducing whole school Kaizen structure.
  • Goal setting and evaluation of Kaizen.

 

Panel of Educational Experts

Sourcing the best available educational experts for a staff development programme can be a daunting task for schools. It is difficult for principals and individual teachers who may have responsibility for staff development to be aware of all available options.

Over the past year, The Super Generation has created a ‘Panel of Educational Experts’ who are highly regarded in their discipline and are happy to deliver training into schools and colleges.

The Super Generation is therefore delighted to announce that we can now offer schools a one-stop shop to source facilitators for staff development days.

For further information, speak to Philip O’Callaghan, the co-ordinator of the Panel of Educational Experts.

If you have particular expertise which you can offer schools and would like to be included in the Panel of Educational Experts, please contact The Super Generation.

Give Us A Call

Give us  a call on (01) 808 1494 if you are interested in finding out more about how The Super Generation can support the work of teachers in your school.

Money Back Guarantee

The Super Generation has 100% confidence in the value of the seminars offered and are offering a full money-back guarantee. This means, if you or your staff are not happy with the content and delivery of the seminars, you will receive the seminar free of charge.