Teacher Training Programmes (CPD)

For teachers around the world wishing to enhance their professional development and equip themselves with a professional advantage, our teacher training programmes deliver every time.

To ensure teacher and student success, our range of programmes enable learning at the teacher’s pace and in the times that suit their lifestyle. These can be done as an afternoon session, a ‘Headfirst’ morning session, inset days as well as independent learning.

With a focus on scientific and visual arts cross curricular integration, you will be supported in developing children’s independence and confidence as they ask and answer their own questions. You will learn how to embed ongoing formative assessment within practical lessons and gain innovative ideas to plan for engaging and manageable practical lessons. Vantage Education will help you to plan for progression in working scientifically from Reception to Year 6, leaving with a range of resources and activities to implement in your school.

Give yourself the opportunity to gain a professional advantage and learn something new in just a day or over a multi-week programme.

Our CPD Sessions can be delivered as a:

Remote, live delivery: access to one of our certified tutors, via Video Conference
Direct delivery in your school

The goals of the staff CPD training are:

Improving general awareness of new technologies and how these could be integrated into the National Curriculum
Improving productivity
Improving the sense of being a team
Improving morale & attitude
Decreasing absenteeism
Reducing turnover rate
Decreasing injuries
Provide leadership support
Provide relevant and personalized programs (using employee interests and available aggregate data)

We build our solutions on five principles of effective teacher professional learning:

Content-specific learning
Active engagement
Teaching models
Collaborative learning
Practical application

You will be able to:

develop practical and enquiry driven science, maths and creativity in the primary classroom
enable children to use a variety of approaches to answer relevant scientific questions
develop strategies for ensuring progression, differentiation and assessment of practical science

Elite Tutors

We only hire instructors with ample tutoring experience and the finest pedigrees. The talents of our tutors are further enhanced by rigorous training and our exceptional curriculum.

Revolutionised Curriculum

Our team of experts have developed an adaptive curriculum informed by best practices in teaching, emerging industries and years of data collected from our students.

1. Knowledge-based courses

As an organisation, we collaborate with academic expertise, combined with our company’s technical skills, market knowledge and networks, to be the foundation for real impact in the workplace. We are helping class teachers and senior leadership teams to enhance their understanding within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), through different areas of flourishing technologies.

Our knowledge-based courses aim to embed the concept of long-term learning and growth in your school. Our training solutions engage staff in learning and equip them to effectively apply what they learn. Teachers receive a customised plan over a specified timeframe focused on fostering a culture of innovation through Science, Maths and PSHE.

Our coaches will help you immerse this existing theme within your Science and PSHE topics.

What knowledge-based courses do we offer?

We provide a wide range of themes you can choose from to be delivered as a CPD course (click on any of the links below to see a taster). Alternatively, our education programming team will create your own curriculum program, according to your students and teacher’s requirements.

2. Direct delivery support

We offer a huge range of services and these include areas such as: biometrics, aviation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, optics, genetics, algebra and convexity and many other themes.

Our sessions are run over a 6 hour period. This can be done either as a 6 week programme or as a 1 day session.

When our team works with you, we offer

Managing and reporting on an extended research projects
Subject-specific IT skills
Introducing teachers and students to current trends in STEM
Providing a broad understanding of the intersections between biology, learning and well-being
Addressing key issues in the application of cognitive, affective, and developmental neuroscience to educational contexts.
Knowledge and understanding of learning from the scientific perspectives of mind and brain.
Knowledge of the brain mechanisms by which individuals grow to maturity and can maximise their potential.
Understanding of the impact of education and learning on the brain processes underlying cognition, language, social and emotional development.
Awareness of how neuroeducation can contribute to reducing discrimination and disadvantage.
The skills to undertake a critical approach to making connections between neuroscience and education.

Our direct coaches will help you to

Build a personalized set of classroom resources to be utilised over a 38 week period
Create an individualised curriculum strategy for mapping out where you would like to investigate and what to explore in the months ahead
Personalizing lesson plan resources for pupils of different learning styles

Here’s what you can expect from our customised training solutions

Skill set training in enriching, exploring and deepening learning in subjects outside the curriculum
A self-paced programme
Differentiated workshop packages – ready to deliver into the classroom
Webinar discussions with teacher/students focused on technology themes
Small group online learning sessions
Peer group evaluation resources to enable student to student constructive feedback
Free yearly subscription and an invitation to subscribe to Vantage magazine – tell your story as a learning case study in our magazine which has an international readership designed to inspire and encourage educators and students alike

Benefits for the teacher

Short-cuts planning time
High quality resources
Differentiation ideas
Guides through the most sensitive issues
Enhances children’s concentration
Improves behaviour
Increases children’s learning capacity
Comprehensive PSHE programme
Maps SMSC
Consistency, continuity and progression
Diversity, respect, positive behaviour
Assessment process
Assemblies included
Provides an overall structure of lesson planning and approach for PSHE for the whole school
Gives an assessment framework with attainment descriptors for every puzzle
Covers all aspects of PSHE
Ongoing support from the Vantage team

These can also be delivered as:

INSET days
Challenge days
Study skills
SENCO skills, one to one with staff to build creativity into their teaching approach
School’s pastoral team

3. CPD for Support Teachers

High performance coaching programme is for teachers who recognise that there is always more that can be achieved and are interested and committed to doing what it takes to get there. On our programme which is conducted one to one by video conference and email by experienced worldwide professionals.

You will learn how to be an effective coach by:

Understanding when a coaching approach will be appropriate and effective
Creating the right environment for effective coaching – based on trust and credibility
Working collaboratively through building rapport and communicating effectively
Understanding your organisational constraints and how to manage these to develop a culture of coaching
Understanding the relationship between your natural leadership style and effective coaching
Setting measurable objectives and linking to the GROW model to offer a rounded approach to coaching
Recognising the importance of role modelling, and great communication skills
Delivering feedback to improve performance – especially when things get challenging!

Choose the delivery option that’s right for you –

Customised Connection – teachers pay individually to have 1:1 advice from industry practitioners

Multiple Classroom Connections – with an industry expert and a small (up to 4) group of teachers

Direct Delivery – one of our practitioners will come to your school to deliver the programme

4. Continuous research developments

This approach has a focus on staff development and is designed as a set of continuous, monthly updated resources for teachers to keep current on, focused on relevant STEM research developments on how children learn, how the memory functions effectively and how to develop a ‘toolkit’ for dealing with the multitude of mental health challenges that teachers come across.

As we are aware that teachers do not have the time to read lengthy research papers (especially if they are using their spare time to find strategies to help each individual child in their classes), we embrace the importance of teaching metacognitive skills with brief, information-rich, professional development modules to teachers at both primary and secondary curriculum.

You will receive materials for self-education on a bi-monthly basis, covering the below topics.

Behaviour, actions and feelings
Developing good habits
Diversity
Neurogamification
Introduction to 21st century skills
What are habits are

In addition to that, the teacher receives one of our expansive packs below:

a) Self affirmation
b) Skills for life

Finally, the teacher will be provided with a series of supporting materials on topic of their choice. You can choose from a wide variety of important areas:

Critical thinking skills
Behavioural and emotional difficulties
Emotional awareness and psychological therapy
Stress reduction
Mindfulness and cognitive therapy
Nutritional wellbeing
Anxiety management
Educational neuroscience
Child sociology and development
Social psychology
Metacognition and self-regulation
Self-regulated learning
Mental health and mental disorders
Relief, assertiveness, study skills and problem solving
Relaxation techniques

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