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More Than 700 Schools Have Already Said ‘Yes!’ to Mike’s In-Person Training
Five reasons you can rely on Mike to deliver expert training and practical guidance for your staff.
- ✅ Mike has worked with more than 700 schools, delivering inspiring in-person training to over 35,000 teachers.
- ✅ Mike is the author of forty books on teaching and learning, including numerous bestsellers, that have sold in excess of 160,000 copies worldwide.
- ✅ Mike’s teaching resources have been viewed and downloaded more than 4 million times by teachers in over 180 countries and territories.
- ✅ Mike has been working with schools, governments and regional authorities continuously since 2010.
- ✅ Mike has supported over 3,000 teachers online through his bespoke CPD platforms, including Mike Gershon’s Effective Teaching and Learning, the only professional development platform built on Mike’s expertise and prioritising teacher autonomy.
INSET, Training and CPD that Gives Your Staff the Practical Tools They Need to Transform Teaching and Learning
Unlock the Secrets of How to Simplify AFL for Every Teacher in Every Classroom in Your School
Mike’s AFL books and resources have helped tens of thousands of teachers in the UK and around the world develop their practice and teach the lessons they want to teach.
Give your staff the freedom to use AFL in a way that works for them and their learners, no matter what they are teaching.
Assessment for Learning Unlocked: Key Features
- 🎯 Discover why assessment for learning has been made unnecessarily complicated since its inception and experience the clarity Mike brings to the topic for teachers old and new.
- 🎯 Create consistency across your school while still giving teachers the freedom and autonomy they need to flourish as exceptional classroom practitioners.
- 🎯 Unlock the secrets of The Three Pillars, Mike’s unique system for simplifying, clarifying and targeting AFL, so teachers can weave it seamlessly into their practice, for the benefit of all learners.
- 🎯 Inspire your staff to reassess their existing planning and to make the subtle changes necessary to improve outcomes, personalise learning, and ensure the feedback they deliver has the impact it should.
- 🎯 Give staff the opportunity to explore, discuss and reflect on key practical strategies that form the basis of the most successful approaches to AFL any teacher can use.
Stop Worrying About Your EAL Learners and Start Ensuring They Have the Support They Need
Tens of thousands of teachers in the UK and around the world have changed how they support EAL learners thanks to Mike’s writing and resources.
Give your staff the tools and confidence they need to effectively meet the needs of their EAL learners, whatever their stage of English language development.
Creating Success for EAL Learners: Key Features
- 🎯 Give every teacher in your school the confidence to support their EAL learners through meaningful, practical strategies that are tailored to the different stages of English language development.
- 🎯 Help staff to understand what it feels like to be an EAL learner and why creating belonging for EAL learners is as important for them as anything else.
- 🎯 Let Mike guide your staff through his Four Key Categories of EAL Support, each of which targets a different aspect of English language development, and which teachers can use to tailor the support they give their EAL learners.
- 🎯 Discover the absolute centrality of images to supporting EAL learners and why thinking through a visual lens can help any teacher to feel more confident and more certain that what they are doing is hitting the mark for those children who are learning English as an additional language.
- 🎯 Unlock over forty strategies every teacher can use to help their EAL learners feel more strongly connected to the classroom, make quicker progress in their English language development, and feel motivated to persist, even when learning is at its most challenging.
Turn Learners from Passive Recipients of Learning into Active Players Focussed on Their Own Independence
Every week, schools from across the UK and around the world turn to Mike for advice and guidance on how to develop metacognition with their learners.
Inspire your staff with training that expertly ties together the theory of effective metacognition with the practical strategies that bring it to life in the classroom.
Making Sense of Metacognition: Key Features
- 🎯 Create certainty around the meaning of metacognition and help your teachers recognise where it is already a part of their day-to-day practice and what they can do to make it a top priority in their classrooms.
- 🎯 Experience first-hand how easy it is to bring a metacognitive focus into any task, in any lesson, with any group of learners. Mike will reveal his simple, three-step process that generates reflective thinking whatever the activity, often with no planning required.
- 🎯 Learn how to use the four levels of metacognitive learner to make crucial decisions about how to tailor support in your lessons. This is an approach to metacognition that transforms how teachers view success – both their own, and that of their learners.
- 🎯 Discover a technique for helping learners think about strategies that is so instantly accessible, teachers reach for their phones and start taking pictures of the slides every time Mike introduces it.
- 🎯 Stand back and watch as every teacher in your school thinks critically about how to tackle the challenge of increasing metacognitive engagement in their lessons, and makes their own decisions about where to begin and how best to start.
When You Understand the Key Drivers of Human Behaviour, Positive Behaviour Management Becomes Easier, Simpler and More Enjoyable
There are no magic solutions to positive behaviour management. No silver bullets. No panacea.
But what there is, and what Mike has honed over the last decade and longer, is three things any teacher can use.
Principles. Strategy. Tactics. In that order.
Positive Behaviour Management That Works: Key Features
- 🎯 Take your staff on a journey of discovery, centred on the core needs all humans seek to fulfil in any social setting. Let Mike unlock the secret forces underpinning human behaviour and listen as he explains how these hidden drivers fundamentally influence what happens in our classrooms.
- 🎯 Give your teachers the opportunity to critically reflect on their own experiences and the scenarios they face in their teaching, and watch as Mike helps them connect these to the underlying needs learners are trying to fulfil in their lessons.
- 🎯 Let Mike walk staff through his Four Golden Principles of Positive Behaviour Management. These practical starting points are the cornerstone of any teacher’s approach to effective behaviour management. A foundation every teacher can return to, in any lesson they are teaching, and use to guide their decision-making.
- 🎯 Explore more than two dozen tried-and-tested strategies teachers can use to engage learners, build rapport and maintain excellent behaviour. All of which are grounded in the golden principles, and which help teachers respond positively, firmly, and consistently, whatever the behaviour in front of them.
- 🎯 Understand the central role consistency plays in positive behaviour management, and why focussing on this nearly always yields disproportionately strong results, making teachers and learners happier, less stressed and better able to focus on the real reason we’re all in the classroom: meaningful teaching and learning.
The Teacher is Always the Most Important Resource in the Room. Discover Why.
Countless thousands of teachers have changed how they approach differentiation for the better thanks to Mike’s books, resources and training.
Help your staff take control of differentiation, so they adapt their planning and teaching with greater skill, precision and purpose – without having to increase their workload.
Rethinking Differentiation: Key Features
- 🎯 Listen as Mike outlines his tried-and-tested diagnosis of how traditional ways of thinking about differentiation stop teachers teaching, and why rethinking differentiation means recognising that the teacher is ALWAYS the most important resource in the room.
- 🎯 Give your staff access to Mike’s far-reaching understanding of effective differentiation and watch as they reflect critically on their own practice, identifying where their greatest strengths lie, and the areas they most want to improve.
- 🎯 Discover Mike’s unique practical framework for making differentiation work better in any classroom. His Five Categories of Differentiation gives your staff the foundations they need to maximise personalisation and adapt teaching and planning, all without increasing their workload.
- 🎯 Explore dozens of practical strategies that help all learners to access the learning and experience a level of challenge that is right for them. Teachers will learn through discussion, reflection and by trialling many of the strategies themselves, helping them see their classroom from a learner’s perspective.
- 🎯 Reinvigorate your staff with CPD that recognises their experience, knowledge and expertise; INSET that meets teachers as the skilled professionals they are, giving them the tools they need to develop, enhance and refine how they support their learners on a day-to-day basis.
Give Your Learners the Chance to Unleash Their Voice and Use its Power to Help Them Learn More and Write Better
Mike’s ‘Discussion Toolkit’ set the tone for effective, practical classroom talk years before oracy made its return as a crucial part of every school’s focus.
Enthuse your staff with interactive training that puts them in the driving seat for making informed, professional decisions around how to develop oracy in their classrooms.
Oracy Unleashed: Key Features
- 🎯 Help your staff fundamentally rethink the relationship between speaking and writing and let them unlock the enormous benefits oracy can bring to the quality of written work learners produce, in any lesson.
- 🎯 Understand that not all talk is equal. Mike will walk your teachers through the three most important types of classroom talk, highlighting the differences between them, and giving staff clear guidance on when to use each one, how to deploy them for maximum effect, and what this means for developing oracy with your learners.
- 🎯 Watch as staff throw themselves into an inspiring suite of discussion activities, experiencing these for themselves so they quickly understand their power for motivating, engaging and enthusing the learners they teach.
- 🎯 Give your teachers access to Mike’s curated collection of oracy development strategies. These are the practical techniques teachers can use to help learners speak with confidence, articulate their ideas, and use verbal rehearsal to improve the quality of their writing.
- 🎯 Listen as Mike gives your staff detailed insights into some of the subtlest, most overlooked strategies for facilitating high-quality, meaningful talk in any classroom. Techniques that your staff can start using right now to bring oracy centre-stage, and speed up the development of learners’ speaking and listening.
Take Your More-Able Learners Beyond the Boundary of What They Can Already Do
Mike’s books and resources have been used by tens of thousands of teachers in the UK and around the world to help them stretch and challenge their more-able learners.
Give your staff a training experience that expertly combines theory and practice, leaving them with everything they need to turn up the dial on challenge in their classrooms.
Stretch and Challenge for More-Able Learners: Key Features
- 🎯 Find out why the more-able are at risk of becoming the bored-able in classrooms up and down the country, and why making subtle, yet significant, changes to lesson planning can instantly ensure this fate never befalls any of the more-able learners in your school.
- 🎯 Discover the three essential ideas that, when brought together, give teachers the insights required to understand stretch and challenge from the perspective of their more-able learners, making it easier and simpler to meet their needs in every lesson.
- 🎯 Learn how to leverage the power of Bloom’s Taxonomy to plan tasks and develop extensions that are GUARANTEED to be challenging, engaging and stimulating for more-able learners who whizz through their work more quickly than their peers.
- 🎯 Unlock the questioning strategies that allow teachers to immediately increase the level of challenge for their more-able learners, pushing them to step out of their comfort zone and think at a level that helps them make rapid and sustained progress.
- 🎯 Give your staff the chance to have their thinking stretched and challenged as they try out seminal stretch and challenge strategies for themselves. Watch as they connect these experiences to their own classrooms and find ways to increase the level of challenge for the more-able learners they teach.
Remove the Friction and Change How Your Teachers Think About Stretch and Challenge in Their Lessons
If we stretch and challenge all learners in the lessons we teach, it’s almost guaranteed that those will be good lessons – lessons in which we push back the boundaries of what learners can do.
Discover how to bring Mike’s mantra to life in classrooms across your school, giving your staff the practical tools they need to increase challenge for every learner they work with.
Stretching and Challenging All Learners: Key Features
- 🎯 Use Mike’s training to help your staff reappraise their relationship with stretch and challenge, so they look afresh at their planning, their teaching, and the way they use their professional decision-making to push learners’ thinking right up to the edge of what it’s possible for them to achieve.
- 🎯 Explore the trio of key ideas Mike uses to help teachers think critically about the nature of stretch and challenge, as well as what it feels like from the learner’s perspective. These ideas provide a roadmap you can use across your school to support teachers as they focus on developing stretch and challenge.
- 🎯 Unlock a series of powerful practical strategies designed to help teachers tailor their planning so that all learners can experience a high level of challenge, whatever their starting points.
- 🎯 Discover why questioning has the power to both consistently embed stretch and challenge for every learner and prevent this from happening. Watch as Mike leads your staff in a critical reflection on the nature of questioning, and the secret questioning traps any of us can fall into, but which we must avoid if we want to sustain challenge for all our learners.
- 🎯 Give your staff access to Mike’s curated suite of stretch and challenge techniques. Ones teachers can modify and adapt during the training, so they are ready to deploy them in their classrooms the very next day, for the benefit of every learner they teach.
What happens when you ask better questions?
Tens of thousands of teachers in schools across the UK and around the world have used Mike’s books, resources and training to change how they ask and plan questions for their learners.
Bring Mike’s questioning training into your school and inspire your staff to think purposefully about the most crucial aspect of their day-to-day work in the classroom.
The Better Questioning Collection: Key Features
- 🎯 Watch as Mike takes one of the most familiar, most commonly used elements of teaching, and turns it inside out, helping staff think critically about what’s going on beneath the surface, whenever they ask a question in their classroom.
- 🎯 Learn what it means to understand ‘The Questioning Game’, and why knowing about this can have a profound impact on how any teacher makes sense of the responses they get from learners – and the responses that aren’t forthcoming.
- 🎯 Help your staff recognise the most common questioning traps any teacher can fall into, in any classroom, and why these instantly undermine the learning the teacher is trying to facilitate. (Plus, what you can do to avoid them happening in the first place.)
- 🎯 Experience five simple, compelling questioning frameworks that do most of the work for you, making it easier than ever to pose high-quality, tailored questions in the moment, without putting the pace of the lesson at risk.
- 🎯 Give your teachers a chance to trial, discuss and reflect on a carefully curated selection of high-impact, high-engagement questioning strategies that draw learners into the learning and get them targeting their efforts at every stage of the lesson.
Cut Through the Myths and Understand the Principles of How Growth Mindsets Can Alter Learning in Your School
Mike is the bestselling author of two books detailing how teachers can take the insights of growth mindsets research and make it a practical reality in their classrooms.
Unlock the secrets of the meaningful, consequential shifts you and your teachers can make to help learners in your school change how they think – and how they act.
The Power of Growth Mindsets: Key Features
- 🎯 Cut through the clutter surrounding growth mindsets. Help your staff grab hold of this transformational approach to how learners think about learning, themselves and their classroom experiences.
- 🎯 Join Mike on a whistlestop tour of the human brain, as he details some of the fundamental features of our infinitely fascinating evolutionary endowment, and why taking a growth mindset view on learning is a better reflection of the reality of how our brains work.
- 🎯 Understand why the language of your school is the starting point for any shift you want to make in how learners view themselves, the lessons they take part in, and what they believe it is possible to achieve.
- 🎯 Open up the possibility of change for every learner in your school. Let Mike guide your staff through the practical strategies they can use to tweak, modify and adapt the language of their classrooms, so the learners they teach start seeing their abilities, talent and intelligence as neither rigid, fixed, nor immutable.
- 🎯 Be inspired by the tried-and-tested techniques Mike shares covering how teachers in the UK and around the world have helped their learners to reconceptualise mistakes and embrace failure as part of the learning process. Techniques your teachers can start using in their classrooms right now.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you do half-day and twilight training as well as full day training?
Yes. My preference is for full day training as this creates the strongest outcomes and best experience for staff. However, I appreciate the demands on school calendars and am always happy to offer half-day and twilight training, tailored to the needs of individual schools.
Do you offer follow-up packages?
Yes. Many schools I work with ask me to come back and work with them again, to support them in their developmental journey. Follow-up options include further training, low-stakes observations with constructive feedback, paired observations and SLT coaching.
We’re a small primary school, can we still work with you?
I always hold back a few dates each year for small primaries, recognising the challenges the smallest schools face in accessing high-quality training. We can also work around tight budgets by looking at online options and in-person training involving multiple schools. The smallest primary I’ve worked with had four teachers – and we had a great day together!
We’d like to look at online training. Is that something you offer?
Yes. It is not my preference as I believe that in-person is always better, and includes elements that can’t be replicated online. However, I do provide online training for schools where in-person may be difficult due to geography, time zones and other factors. My one rule for online is that staff must sit together so that I can facilitate discussion and interaction just as I do when delivering in person.
How far are you willing to travel?
I travel across the UK and overseas from my base in York. Far flung visits have included Shetland, Cornwall, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Pembrokeshire. Even further flung visits have included Romania, Norway, Italy, Bahrain, Kuwait and The Falkland Islands. Trips that require extensive travelling attract a higher cost to cover additional time and mileage.
Can we book you in conjunction with another school?
Yes. Many smaller schools opt for this approach. Sometimes this sees two or three primaries joining up for a full-day session, sometimes a cluster of schools combine budgets and I work with them over an extended period. Occasionally schools ask if they can book me and then sell tickets to the event to nearby schools to cover costs. That is also fine with me.
Is the training relevant for all age groups?
Yes. I have worked with hundreds of primaries, hundreds of secondaries, and dozens of FE colleges over the years. I present in a curriculum agnostic way, using examples that are relevant for the audience in front of me and the age group they teach. A big part of all my training is giving colleagues the opportunity to think about how they can take the ideas and strategies I present and use them with the learners they know best.
And don’t forget, Mike’s online CPD platform gives teachers and schools instant access to over 30 courses covering ten key areas of teaching and learning.
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