Starting Out with Accelerated Learning

All you need to know to start the Accelerated Learning journey

Accelerated Learning is a holistic model of learning which allows teachers to plan, deliver

and observe within an easily understood framework.

Starting Out with Accelerated Learning will answer these questions for you:

• What is Accelerated Learning? 
• Is Accelerated Learning for me?
• Where do I go with Accelerated Learning?
• How do I make a start? 
• Why does it make a difference?

This new programme from Alite shows you how to use the Accelerated Learning cycle. It will

help you begin to transform learning in your classroom and your school. If you are keen to

freshen you thinking about learning, build your confidence as a classroom practitioner or

re-invigorate learning across your school Starting Out with Accelerated Learning is for you!

The National Events programme is led by Nicky Anastasiou, one of the UK's most

experienced trainers and innovators in Accelerated Learning. Nicky designed and delivers

for Alite its prestigious Lead Learner programme.

Starting Out with Accelerated Learning is designed in three areas of focus: learning, learners

and leading. It provides a model for thinking about learning, the theory behind it, video case

studies of Accelerated Learning in action and practical classroom tools for starting out.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

Learning ø use a structure for learning with learners in mind

• discover the Accelerated Learning principles
• experience the AL Cycle and be shown how to use it to design and deliver powerful learning experiences
• see classroom examples of Accelerated Learning at work

Learners ø recognise, accommodate and celebrate different learning needs

• find out the five attributes of successful learners and how to track them
• consider how to recognise, celebrate and accommodate difference
• make learning itself a focus of learning
• pay attention to factors that motivate learners

Leading

• see how expectation shapes performance
• consider the influence of language on self and others
• receive practical classroom management tools
• restore some of the excitement into learning

   

Starting Out with Accelerated Learning

Overview of programme content :

Day One

Learning- a structure for learning with learners in mind!

• what Accelerated Learning is, and what it isn't!
• what are the principles that underpin Accelerated Learning?
• the AL 4 stage planning cycle
• learn from others: video case studies from schools in the UK

Learners - recognising, acknowledging and providing for differing learning needs

• confident and independent learners - but how?
• how different is different?
• better use of questioning strategies
• formative feedback in the AL cycle

Leading ø self, others and the environment

• how to:  create a positive start

                               use room layout to effect

                               manage movement

                               make group work effective

• put creativity first
• model the learning
• developing a language for learning

Throughout the programme you will be finding out about:

• How to take Accelerated Learning forward in your school or classroom
• How to overcome obstacles
• Managing change for the better
• What Alite can do for you

Starting Out with Accelerated Learning occurs through:

• Structured presentation                 
• Modelling what we espouse  
• Observation of classroom practitioners
• Focussed discussion
• Time for reflection
• Transfer into own practice
• Learning through the programme processes
• Experiencing elements of the cycle
• Original, detailed supportive notes
• Access to all the Alite resources and follow up

Optional Day Two

This day is for classroom practitioners and teachers with responsibility for leading learning

and teaching who wish to have further time to take part in an intensive practical session using

the 4 phase Accelerated Learning Cycle as a planning tool.

By the end of the day participants will have experienced the Cycle for planning in depth a

subject topic and considered how to:

• Activate learning through planning for multi-sensory learning activities
• Build in brain breaks for keeping engagement
• Identify success criteria that encourages learners to see the benefits of the learning
• Build in choice for the learner
• Incorporate a range of questioning strategies to encourage higher order thinking
• Identify and pay attention to the 5 key learning dispositions that enhance effective learning behaviours
• Notice the principles that underpin the planning

And to go away being able to:

• Use the outcomes of the planning for their own practice in the classroom
• Observe practice through the use of the cycle
• Use practical strategies for developing AL with staff

To find out how Starting Out with Accelerated Learning can support and take forward the

"Primary Strategy Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and Teaching" (PNS) in your

primary school, click here.

Starting out with Accelerated Learning will be taking place on:

Day One

28th February 2005, Birmingham

17th March 2005, London

Optional Day 2

(Please note that participants must have completed Day One in order to take part in Day Two)

1st March 2005, Birmingham

18th March 2005, London

To book online for Day One, click here

To book online for Day Two, click here

To download a booking form in Word, click here

If you have registered for Starting Out with Accelerated Learning, details of a separate web link

will be sent to you to enable you to access pre-course information.

This course is available as an INSET. Please contact the Alite office for details:
hilary@alite.co.uk
telephone: 01628 810700 Ext 20
fax: 01628 810310

Read more about the trainers who work on this programme:
Sarah Mook | Nick Austin | Simon Percival | Will Thomas | Bruce Potts | Graeme Logan | Gavin Kewley |

Anne Copley | Cath Daley | Pauline Foster | Paul Murphy | Robert Pritchard |