Supercharging your Lessons as an ECT
Course Code: T0192
£289.00
ABOUT THIS COURSE
As an Early Career Teacher, you want your lessons to do more than just deliver content, you want them to stick, inspire curiosity, and help students develop valuable skills and habits. Practical learning and experiential tasks can be powerful tools for achieving this but making them consistently effective takes more than just enthusiasm and good intentions. This course is designed to help you reimagine and refine the practical elements of your lessons, using evidence-informed approaches to make every activity purposeful and impactful. You’ll explore how people learn best through experience, how to pitch challenge appropriately, and how to build flexible strategies that adapt to your students' needs. Whether you want to develop resilience, build confidence, foster independence, or just make your subject feel more real and relevant—this course will leave you with the energy, clarity, and confidence to supercharge your teaching.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Leave with practical, easy-to-implement ideas to reimagine the way you approach experiential learning in your lessons
- Gain renewed energy and confidence to try new approaches that bring your subject to life
- Develop a deeper understanding of how and when people learn from experiences
- Learn how to give purposeful feedback and use coaching strategies to maximise the impact of your practical work
- Walk away with worked examples tailored to your subject and context—ready to use straight away in the classroom
PROGRAMME
When is Learning at its Greatest?
10.00am
How our Thinking about Learning Experiences has Developed over Time 10.30am
Break 11.10am
Thinking Strategically about Experiential Learning 11.30am
Factors That Affect the Strategy You Choose 12.00pm
Lunch 12.30pm
Worked Examples 1.30pm
Changing Your Strategy to Solve Problems 2.00pm
A Practical Lesson Using the Strategies 2.30pm
Break 3.05pm
Building Multi-Activity Days & Weeks Effectively 3.10pm
Depart 3.45pm
- Explore experiential learning to set appropriate levels of challenge and support
- Redefine ‘success’ and explore the powerful learning that comes from failure
How our Thinking about Learning Experiences has Developed over Time 10.30am
- Examine the evolution of learning through practical learning and evaluate the merits and drawbacks of each theory
- Learn how to give effective feedback and use coaching strategies to support experiential learning
Break 11.10am
Thinking Strategically about Experiential Learning 11.30am
- Explore outcomes and opportunities beyond simply ‘completing the activity’
- Develop a toolkit of strategies to run the same activity in different ways for different outcomes
- Examine key factors that influence which strategy you should choose and how to adapt them effectively
Factors That Affect the Strategy You Choose 12.00pm
- Explore what makes an activity successful or fall flat
- Learn how to plan activities strategically to achieve intended outcomes and maximise student learning
Lunch 12.30pm
Worked Examples 1.30pm
- Discover practical, proven strategies through worked examples—tailored to your subject and classroom context
Changing Your Strategy to Solve Problems 2.00pm
- Reflect on your lesson goals—whether to stretch challenge, build confidence, or support problem-solving
- Use a practical matrix to choose strategies that address common issues in your classroom
A Practical Lesson Using the Strategies 2.30pm
- Take part in a hands-on practical lesson where you’ll re-plan existing activities using a variety of strategies
- Explore fresh ways to approach the same content to shape different student outcomes
Break 3.05pm
Building Multi-Activity Days & Weeks Effectively 3.10pm
- Learn how to sequence individual lessons into cohesive, engaging learning experiences
- Explore how to make the most of timetabled breaks, themed days, or weekly structures to extend and deepen learning
Depart 3.45pm
Leadership - Code: T0192
Supercharging your Lessons as an ECT
COURSE LEADER
Tim Hudson is a leadership and development expert with particular interest in the education sector. Backed by a degree in management, he has worked with a wide variety of people, from aspiring student leaders to senior managers. In the past two years he has run in-house programmes developing leadership in teachers and pupils in HMC schools, including a pioneering year-long leadership course accredited by the ILM.