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EDCI 6207 Developing Policies to Complement your School's Values

The aim of this course is to provide professional development and some practical tools for the leadership group, teachers and principals who wish to improve their understanding of policies and of how they can be used to compliment the school's own values.

EDCI 6208 Coping with Conflict During Your Day to Day School Life

The aim of this course is to provide professional development for all school staff and principals who wish to improve their understanding of conflict and acquire the skills to deal with the inevitable conflicts that arise in day-to-day school life.

EDCI 6209 Becoming a More Assertive Staff Member in Interactions with Colleagues

The aim of this course is to provide professional development for all staff and principals who feel they'd like to become more assertive. It aims to offer practical help to people whose lack of assertiveness negatively affects their professional life, by getting them to reflect on different scenarios and practice different techniques.

EDCI 6215 Effective Recruitment of Staff to Meet Your School's Needs

This course is intended to develop knowledge and skills in the recruitment and selection of staff to provide the best quality teaching for students. It will encourage both experienced and inexperienced staff to examine the school's current approaches and practices to meet its particular needs

EDCI 6216 Creating a Supportive Working Environment for Staff and Students

This course is intended to help all staff contribute to creating a positive and supportive working environment for all members of the school community. It seeks to help staff spot the signs of a negative working environment, and to develop the skills required to make the school a better place in which to work, helping develop a collaborative approach that promotes the well-being of staff and students.

EDCI 6217 Effective Orientation of New Staff to the School

Consider how to help inductees to take responsibility for their learning. Maximize opportunities for new and existing inductees to learn about their role within your school. Consider how best to evaluate induction at your school. Produce a handbook for orientation at your school

EDCI 6218 Emotions and Learning

Welcome to "Emotions and learning". This course is intended to provide an introduction to the subject of emotions and learning for teachers and other staff, as well as to offer some practical ideas and suggestions for harnessing the benefits of emotions in the classroom.

EDCI 6219 Developing International Mindedness

Welcome to "Developing international mindedness". This course is intended to provide you with a background to key developments that help drive the growth of international education, and to help you examine the concept of international mindedness and the extent to which it's promoted in your school.

EDCI 6225 Developing Skills for the Teaching Assistant

Welcome to "Developing skills for the teaching assistant". This course is intended to enable teaching assistants at different levels of practical experience to more effectively support students and teachers in their day to day activities.

EDCI 6226 An Introduction to Coaching

This course is intended to demonstrate the usefulness of coaching as a managerial tool in developing staff performance and to introduce you to the basics of the process. It’s designed to contribute to the continuing professional development of anyone aspiring to or having responsible for the development of teachers and other staff. At the heart of this course is the belief that developing and motivating your teachers and staff is one of the most powerful tools in school improvement.

EDCI 6227 Learning Styles

Addressing the diverse needs of learners is an ever-present challenge in the teaching profession. This course seeks to provide a solid background to the notion of learning styles. By the end of the course participants should know how to identify the characteristics of several different learning styles and how best to accommodate these styles in the classroom, while not specifically teaching to each style (an impossibility!).

EDCI 6228 Supporting the Child with ADHD

At some point, you will encounter the particular social and learning needs of a student with this disorder. This course will provide you with a better understanding of ADHD and strategies for recognizing and working with ADHD students.

EDCI 6229 Parents as Partners in Learning – The Early Years

"Parents as partners in learning - the early years". This course will widen your view to the possibilities for involving parents or guardians in their child's education and the potential benefits and pitfalls that exist.

EDCI 6235 Motivational MentoringMotivational mentoring".

For many years, mentoring has been seen as a way of helping individuals to develop in order to reach their potential. For some, the mentor was seen as an experienced or senior person within an organization who looked after a younger protégé. But things have changed – there is now a new approach to mentoring that every team leader, manager or principal should know about. This course will help you to develop your abilities to become an effective and motivational mentor.

EDCI 6236 Managing Behavior Positively

"Managing behavior positively". The purpose of the course is to help school staff provide a the ultimate climate for learning, both for encouraging positive behavior and reducing negative behavior. A positive approach to behavior management can go a long way to reducing stress levels of both staff and students alike.

EDCI 6237 Time Management for Educators

Time is our most precious commodity. This course will help you understand and managed your time as well as offering a practical blueprint for future change in the way you operate as a teacher.

EDCI 6238 Supporting the Very Able Child

This course will enable you to consider ways of identifying such students and help you to define effective strategies that can be used with them.

EDCI 6239 Sustaining Leadership Effectiveness in Schools

This course will identify the learning and development strategies that are appropriate to sustaining personal and leadership potential.

EDCI 6245 School Self-Evaluation for School Leaders: Classroom Monitoring

"School self-evaluation for school leaders: classroom monitoring". This course aims to provide school leaders with the knowledge and understanding they require to carry out effective classroom monitoring in their areas of responsibility. For the purposes of this course, the term "classroom monitoring" covers watching and examining teaching and learning in action, and analyzing student performance.

EDCI 6246 School Self-Evaluation for Elementary Subject Leaders: Classroom Monitoring

"School self-evaluation for elementary subject leaders: classroom monitoring". This course aims to provide subject leaders in primary schools with the knowledge and understanding they require to carry out effective classroom monitoring in their areas of responsibility. For the purposes of this course, the term "classroom monitoring" covers watching and examining teaching and learning in action, and analyzing student performance.

EDCI 6247 School Self-Evaluation for Secondary Subject Leaders: Classroom Monitoring

"School self-evaluation for secondary subject leaders: classroom monitoring". This course aims to provide subject leaders in secondary schools with the knowledge and understanding they require to carry out effective classroom monitoring in their areas of responsibility. For the purposes of this course, the term "classroom monitoring" covers watching and examining teaching and learning in action, and analyzing student performance.

EDCI 6248 Managing School Meetings

This course will provide professional development for all school staff and school board members who wish to improve the effectiveness of the meetings they attend in whatever capacity. It's based on the belief that efficient and effective meetings in school have a positive impact on student learning.

EDCI 6249 Learning-Centered Leadership

The purpose of the course is to offer a holistic model of leadership, learning and team working focused on strategies to support students' learning and achievement. The course will take a bit longer than most of our other courses. It regularly refers to current research and literature, and will require a commitment to thinking hard about some complicated issues.

EDCI 6255 Multiple Intelligences

This theory presents a definition of intelligence that challenges some of the assumptions of those whose work is based on other definitions. This course will improve your understanding of the theory, and how the theory can be used as a basis for teaching and learning.

EDCI 8357 School self-evaluation for Administrators

Even though administrators aren't usually directly involved in the processes of self-evaluation, they should nevertheless have an understanding of what goes on. This course aims to provide administrators with the knowledge and understanding they require to support the effective self-evaluation of their schools.

EDCI 8344 Managing Your Facilities

This theory presents a definition of intelligence that challenges some of the assumptions of those whose work is based on other definitions. This course will improve your understanding of the theory, and how the theory can be used as a basis for teaching and learning.

EDCI 8345 Leading the High Performance school

The purpose of this course is to provide professional development for school teachers, leaders, and managers - all involved in the performance of the school and its staff. The course is not designed as a manual on how to implement statutory performance management schemes. There is already abundant authoritative advice available from educational authorities and professional associations on how to achieve this. The course is designed to help education professionals develop an understanding of the components and attributes of the leadership and management of sustainable high performance in schools.

EDCI 8350 Understanding English as an Additional Language (EAL) and Bilingualism

In many schools there are classrooms that include students whose first language is not English. This course will introduce a range of knowledge and professional skills to support these students and their families effectively.

EDCI 8355 The Emotionally Intelligent School

Emotional intelligence isn't something that can develop within a school community without the commitment of those working there. This course will draw together the ideas that schools need as a whole to work in an emotionally intelligent way.

EDCI 8356 Supporting EAL Students in the Classroom

This course will provide professional development for school employees who work with children whose first language is not English. It will also provide you with a range of practical strategies for including and supporting EAL students in the classroom.