ISED Teacher Training Courses
Building Educational Capacity One Teacher at a Time
In Partnership with Optimus Education
Optimus Education (UK) provides certified professional development courses that can be taken asynchronously by individuals or groups of learners. As a learning partner, the Isa School of Education (ISED) has curated the learning to include collaborative learning opportunities, providing enrichment for all our participants.
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By taking ISED courses you get to:
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Reflect on your learning within a professional learning community (PLC).
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You get authentic feedback from learning colleagues who are within your context and
who share similar experiences.
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You have coaching sessions with the ISED faculty, including the programme director - Dr Joy Isa.
Each successful participant will be awarded an Optimus Education Certificate at the end of the programme.
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Differentiation in Practice
Differentiation is a high-profile teaching strategy, but its quality and impact are hugely variable. This training programme shows busy teachers how to personalise and differentiate learning effectively, in ways that raise standards and close the achievement gap – without placing unrealistic demands on planning time. The course is written in a bitesize way to help you target the aspects of differentiation and challenge how you decide what needs to focus on in your school.
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AIMS AND OUTCOMES
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Help teachers and school leaders diagnose areas for improvement in differentiation practice.
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Radically improve teaching by providing strategies to help teachers respond to learning as it unfolds in the classroom.
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Increase teacher confidence and reduce workload with tools to plan effectively for differentiation prior to a lesson.
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Support senior and middle leaders to lead professional learning around differentiation and challenge.
There are 3 units in this course and they will be covered over 2 weeks. This means it will be intensive and you will need to dedicate time daily to visiting your classroom and keeping up with the discussion posts and comments from your learning colleagues.
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Unit 1 - Differentiation Overview
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Unit 2 - Embedding Differentiation
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Unit 3 - Leading Differentiation
Course Start Date: 29th January 2024
Course Duration: 2 Weeks
COST: N12,500 PER PARTICIPANT.
Discounts apply for group bookings (6 or more teachers)
Advanced Course
Accelerate Progress With Metacognition
Metacognitive and self-regulation skills will increase pupil progress across the school. Research indicates that improving pupils’ metacognitive and self-regulation skills (that is, ‘learning to learn’) helps accelerate their progress, and leads to greater motivation and independence.
How do you embed the development of these skills in your teaching? How do you teach an understanding of how to learn and what to do when learning is not straightforward?
This advanced course is designed for teachers with extensive experience in education and who are looking for an opportunity to extend their ability to accelerate their students’ progress.
AIMS AND OUTCOMES
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Understand what is meant by metacognitive and self-regulation skills and why they are so valuable for developing learners.
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Build in strategies for improving pupils’ ability to set goals, monitor performance and evaluate outcomes.
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Develop strategies for improving pupils’ motivation and ability to learn independently.
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Try out different approaches and find what works for your pupils.
There are 5 units in this course and they will be covered over 4 weeks. This means it will be intensive and you will need to dedicate time daily to visiting your classroom and keeping up with the discussion posts and comments from your learning colleagues.
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Unit 1 - What is metacognition?
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Unit 2 - Benefits of metacognition
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Unit 3 - Developing metacognition
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Unit 4 - Beyond planning and refining
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Unit 5 - Embedding a metacognitive approach
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Course Start Date: 29th January 2024
Course Duration: 4 Weeks
COST: N50,000 PER PARTICIPANT
Discounts apply for group bookings (4 or more teachers)
Effective Lesson Planning
This course explores how effective planning leads to effective teaching and the centrality of learning to the teaching process. It includes an introduction to neuroscience and the basics of brain-based learning - as well as snapshots of the ideas of Rosenshine, Piaget, Vygotsky and others - to help develop an appreciation of the essentials of lesson planning.
AIMS AND OUTCOMES
Participants will:
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Understand more about how the brain works and Cognitive Load Theory as a basis for what is happening to the pupil
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Understand how to adapt their teaching successfully so the needs of all pupils are met
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Understand how success criteria can be used to support learning and differentiation
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Understand the importance of effective questioning and a purposeful lesson summary.
​There are 5 units in this course and they will be covered over 4 weeks. This means it will be intensive and you will need to dedicate time daily to visiting your classroom and keeping up with the discussion posts and comments from your learning colleagues.
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Unit 1 - Good learning and good learning objectives
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Unit 2 - Adaptive teaching
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Unit 3 - Success Criteria
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Unit 4 - Questions, Summaries and Structure
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Unit 5 - Review and Next Steps
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Course Start Date: 29th January 2024
Course Duration: 4 Weeks
COST: N25,000 PER PARTICIPANT.
Discounts apply for group bookings (4 or more teachers).
Teacher Development Programme
Great learners are found where great teaching exists. From understanding the concept of learning to considering the structure of their lessons, teachers have a huge spectrum of tasks to think about daily.
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This training course covers the fundamental areas of teaching practice that form a well- rounded and effective practitioner. It will provide you with a toolbox of essential training and techniques covering core skills and encouraging deeper understanding of practice.
AIMS AND OUTCOMES
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Equip new teachers and develop teachers with a toolbox of techniques for improved practice.
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Gain practical techniques for supporting learners to learn effectively.
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Provide takeaway strategies for meeting Ofsted criteria for quality of teaching,
learning and assessment.
There are 7 units in this course and they will be covered over 6 weeks. This means it will be intensive and you will need to dedicate time daily to visiting your classroom and keeping up with the discussion posts and comments from your learning colleagues.
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Unit 1 - Deep learning in the classroom.
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Unit 2 - Planning engaging and productive lessons
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Unit 3 - Supporting the needs of individual pupils
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Unit 4 - Developing feedback techniques
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Unit 5 - Formative assessment to ensure pupil progress
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Unit 6 - Effective questioning to enhance learning
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Unit 7 - Building and supporting effective learners
Course Start Date: 29th January 2024
Course Duration: 6 Weeks
COST: N37,500 PER PARTICIPANT
Discounts apply for group bookings (3 or more teachers)
Back to Basics 1
"Every teacher is a teacher of English"
No subject is taught in isolation; every time a child is in any class, it is an opportunity to build up on a variety of skills. The issue we have as educators , is that there is a tendency to hyper focus on our subject, and not consider whether we are teaching transferable skills.
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This programme is designed to remediate participants' foundational knowledge and skills in order to better prepare them for the classroom. Whether you are fresh out of your NYSC programme or you have an extensive teaching career, the basics of quality teaching should never be ignored.
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Learning objectives:
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Unit 1 - Understand how to integrate technology into teaching and learning.
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Unit 2 - Improving verbal and written communication skills
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Unit 3 - Confidence in the classroom
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Unit 4 - Adapting to non-traditional teaching methods and environments
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Course Start Date: 29th January 2024
Course Duration: 2 Weeks
COST: N12,500 PER PARTICIPANT
Discounts apply for group bookings (5 or more teachers)