Learning through Speaking & Listening
This event Will Be of Interest To
All Primary School Staff
About This event
It is said that:
We listen a book a day
We speak a book a week
We read a book a month
We write a book a year
Effective communication through speaking and listening is key to all learning. Developing these skills can help your students achieve better results as well as growing in confidence and self-esteem. This seminar is designed to be inclusive using a wide range of presentation techniques. There will be the opportunity to explore the content in a multi sensory and mind friendly learning environment. The session will be practical and experiential.
The Benefits of Attending
- Developing a framework for teaching and learning that actively encourages speaking and listening
- Looking at what we know about how the brain works and how this connects to speaking and listening
- Building a tool kit of structures, tools and techniques for exploring and developing speaking and listening in the classroom
Presenter Alison Hattersley
Alison works in education and business looking at what motivates us and what helps us to learn new skills and knowledge. As well as teaching mind mapping, learning styles and mind friendly learning, Alison has spent a lot of time working with teaching staff, students and staff from all areas of education looking at emotional literacy/intelligence, how this affects us and how to develop and sustain it.
