Tiptree and Stanway Consortium

Behaviour 

This training focuses on the following: the prevention of misbehaviour; withitness and classroom awareness; presence and clarity; the teacher-student relationship; and strategic intervention. The content will not contradict your school behaviour policy. Rather, it’s all those approaches and strategies that teachers can use so that the behaviour policy is not needed – or, at least, not needed as much. 

Motivation Matters 

Motivation Matters considers the science of motivation, specifically motivation for learning. It looks at behavioural economics, metacognition, metamotivation, group dynamics and teacher characteristics. Motivated students work harder and behave better – so any increase in student motivation is an increase in those two areas. The session focuses on three key areas: increasing students’ expectancy of success; increasing the value they associate with learning; and reducing the costs associated with the task of learning. 

Making Learning Sticky 

Making Learning Sticky focuses on the science of learning. It explains the difference between short-term and long-term memory, and how to get information from the former into the latter. It details a range of pedagogical approaches, including three types of practice (retrieval, spaced and interleaving); the activation of prior learning and organisation of future learning; salience and mnemonics; the primacy and recency effects; cognitive stretch; explanation and elaboration; the picture superiority effect – and much, much more. Each