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Neuroscience is influencing educational thinking and practice across the world. Insights from neuroscience are relevant for learners at all levels of ability (including those with disorders, low and high ability) and all phases and ages across the lifespan.

Our Customised Training Solutions aim to embed the concept of long-term learning and growth in your school. Our training solutions engage staff in learning and equip them to effectively apply what they learn. Teachers receive a customised plan over a specified timeframe focused on fostering a culture of innovation through PSHE and Science.

These can be done as an afternoon sessions, ‘Headfirst’ morning sessions, INSET Days, Challenge Days and SENCO one to one sessions

1. Direct delivery support

We offer a huge range of services and these include areas such as: Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Cognitive Health and Wellbeing, Self-Awareness, Bullying and Peer Pressure, Anxiety and Depression and many other themes.

Our sessions are run over a 6 hour period. This can be done either as a 6 week programme or as a 1 day session.

Our Direct Coaches will help you to

  • Build a personalized set of classroom resources to be utilised over a 38 week period
  • Discover your pupils existing understanding of Emotional Literacy, Mental Health Awareness and Self-Esteem, with a huge amount of many different module titles to choose from
  • Introduce teachers and students to current trends in educational Neuroscience
  • Undertake skill set training in Neuroscience and how to teach this effectively in your school setting
  • Personalize lesson plan resources for pupils of different learning styles
  • Providing a broad understanding of the intersections between Biology, learning and well-being
  • Address key issues in the application of cognitive, affective, and developmental neuroscience to educational contexts
  • Understand the impact of education and learning on the brain processes underlying cognition, language, social and emotional development
  • Create awareness of how neuroscience can contribute to reducing discrimination and disadvantage

Benefits for the Teacher

  • Short-cuts planning time
  • High quality resources
  • Provides an overall structure of lesson planning and approach for PSHE for the whole school
  • Differentiation ideas
  • Guides through the most sensitive issues
  • Enhances children’s concentration
  • Improves behaviour
  • Increases children’s learning capacity
  • Comprehensive PSHE programme
  • Maps SMSC
  • Consistency, continuity and progression
  • Diversity, respect, positive behaviour
  • Assessment process
  • Assemblies included

You can expect 

  • A self-paced programme
  • Differentiated workshop packages – ready to deliver into the classroom
  • Webinar discussions with teacher/students focused on Neuroscience themes
  • Small group online learning sessions
  • Peer group evaluation resources to enable student to student constructive feedback
  • Ongoing support from the NeuroHeadway Team

See examples of our CPD sessions:

2. Staff development in neuroeducation and metacognitive continuous research developments

This approach has a focus on staff development and is designed as a set of continuous, monthly updated resources for teachers to keep current on, focused on relevant neuroscience research developments on how children learn, how the memory functions effectively and how to develop a ‘toolkit’ for dealing with the multitude of mental health challenges that teachers come across.

As we are aware that teachers do not have the time to read lengthy research papers (especially if they are using their spare time to find strategies to help each individual child in their classes), we embrace the importance of teaching metacognitive skills with brief, information-rich, professional development modules to teachers at both primary and secondary curriculum.

1. You will receive materials for self-education on a bi-monthly basis, covering the below topics.

  • Behaviour, actions and feelings
  • Developing good habits
  • Diversity
  • Neurogamimfication
  • Introduction to neurons
  • What are habits are

2. In addition to that, the teacher receives one of our expansive packs below:

a) Self affirmation

b) Skills for life

3. Finally, the teacher will be provided with a series of supporting materials on topic of their choice. You can choose from a wide variety of important areas:

  • Critical Thinking skills
  • Behavioural and emotional difficulties
  • Emotional awareness and psychological therapy
  • Stress reduction
  • Mindfulness and cognitive therapy
  • Nutritional wellbeing
  • Anxiety management
  • Educational neuroscience
  • Child sociology and development
  • Social psychology
  • Metacognition and self-regulation
  • Self-regulated learning
  • Mental health and mental disorders
  • Relief, assertiveness, study skills and problem solving
  • Relaxation techniques
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