Helping Vulnerable Children to Learn

A series of separate but linked training days offered by The Caspari Foundation

Aims

· To broaden and deepen awareness and understanding of the social and emotional factors affecting learning and behaviour

· To extend the repertoire of teaching responses by developing insight into the meaning of behaviour and responses to learning

· To focus on appropriate educational responses in relation to the task

· To develop therapeutic practice within the classroom and the curriculum

· To develop reflective practice and an enhanced supportive ethos within the staff group and across interdisciplinary boundaries.

Content:
A series of day courses which can be used separately or linked and each include:

· Theoretical seminars providing insight into children’s emotions and behaviour

· Intervention strategies facilitating therapeutic teaching

· Work discussion sessions based on member’s practice and experience with children, facilitating reflective thinking about children’s difficulties in school settings

· Reading seminars based on related papers and books linking emotional difficulties and learning.

· Each course member will be asked to identify a child with whom they are working and who will be ‘held in mind’ during the course.  Before and after profiles will be completed in order to help the course member to reflect upon the effects of the course on their practice and on outcomes for the child in focus.

This course will be delivered in 5 separate days led by trainers from The Caspari Foundation supported by professionals in the local area where the course is delivered.

The 5 Day Programme

Day One:

Emotional factors affecting learning: attachment and learning

Day Two:

Therapeutic Intervention: working with children therapeutically in school

Day Three:

Unconscious processes and learning

Day Four:

The family and the child in school

Day Five:

A Consultation approach to promoting therapeutic and teaching skills as an integral part of the teacher’s daily task

Accreditation

Participants who complete the 4/5 day course and the accompanying Pupil Evaluation Process will be awarded a certificate from the Caspari Foundation.

Fees

Charges are negotiated on the basis of a daily rate for seminar presenters plus travel and accommodation expenses (where necessary), with an administration fee.  The fee for the five day course is £4,000 for up to 30 participants.

Each day can be negotiated as a separate training day at a fee of £800 per day.

Course Contact

Heather Geddes.

For further details please contact us