RJTulip has identified the three key areas to consider:
Leadership training to ensure continuous improvement of the whole school in a collegial manner, Teacher training to promote the teaching of higher order thinking skills
Health and safety training for the entire staff.
"Walk-through training for administrators" will provide a sound and efficient method to get the entire teaching staff focused on continuous professional development in a self-directed manner.
"How to Teach Critical Thinking Skills" will guide teachers in developing these essential skills in their students
Health and Safety sessions will ensure that your entire staff, from teachers to custodians to secretaries are carrying out their duties in a safe and healthy way.
A two or three-day training program, held during the school day, spread over the course of a school year.
Understand a leadership style that transforms your staff into a self-directed ,analytical team and each teacher into an improvement-focused professional.
Step-by-step guidance to train your admin team to lead the staff to a culture of continuous improvement.
Your school quality improves, your staff retention rate increases and the tone of your staff room conversation becomes more professionally-focused and collegial.
- Learn the 5 essential teaching elements you can observe in minutes
- Learn how to develop a reflective, progressive staff culture
- Understand how to implement the continuous improvement cycle
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Includes on-going consulutation for 3 months as you implement the program
Teaching Effectiveness
How to Teach Higher Order Thinking Skills
One day training session
Tests don't just ask for recall anymore. Students need to be able to think critically to do well in problem-solving situations across a wide range of subjects.
But what specific strategies can teachers use to teach these skills?
This one-day workshop establishes the need for action with examples of success from around the world, provides a solid theoretical basis for action and gives practical tools for teachers to use back in the classroom.
It covers such essential components as
- Levels of thinking
- Multiple intelligences
- Critical thinking
- Meta-cognition
...and provides practical guidelines and tools for classroom implementation .
Three months of follow-up consultation included for each participant.
Who are the presenters? Skilled teaching masters from Canada and the UK will lead your staff training.
The perfect orientation to bring returning and new staff together, with school-wide goals and language or the mid-year review.
A powerful professional development day that will pay long-term dividends for your school.
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Your custodial and maintainence staff also need to be trained so as not to place themselves or your staff and students at risk and you need to be certain that construction workers and visiting repairmen aren't placing everyone at risk of accident.
And ultimately, as administration, you will be held accountable for accidents that occur under your jurisdiction.
Our team of EU certified, practicing health and safety inspectors can
- examine your school and leave a detailed report for you to follow up.
- train your health and safety team so that they can carry out their own ongoing inspections.
- train your staff in small groups by speciality, or assembled as general awareness building.
As administrator, you have probably already thought of areas of concern. There may be many others that you have not contemplated... Accidents waiting to happen.
Here is a partial list to guide your thinking. Each topic listed below is 1 hour long. They can be expanded and grouped to your specific needs to form intensive, effective, day-long training sessions that reach several groups during a one or two day visit to your premises.
Noise and hazardous substances in schools
Hand tools and power tools: safe use, storage and maintenance
Safety standards in schools
Ergonomics in class, Science lab, IT, office areas
Computer and electrical safety standards
Health and safety signage
Lifting and moving
Air quality, lighting, heating and cooling standards
We can meet any specific area of health and safety concern, from classroom to school yard to construction situations in and around schools.
