Raising the Achievement of Disadvantaged Learners
Pivotal provide cutting edge training tailored to your institution. Sample agendas are available on request. We don't 'train and run', we build sustainable practice that works for the long term. All our training can be booked with coaching & mentoring.
Working with learners from areas of deprivation and poverty throws up unique issues. If you want to train your staff in practical strategies for raising achievement our training is practical and proven. We give colleagues a clear insight through the complex issues, share an intelligent philosophy and equip them with the empathy and ambition they need to accelerate achievement.
People with low levels of educational achievement can expect to be less employable, therefore poorer, therefore less healthy and probably less likely to participate in civic activity. The kinds of people who are less likely to be employed are also more likely to be involved in crime, to have shorter life-spans and to have less fulfilling family lives.
Freedom and Fairness, EHRC (2009)
Our Raising Achievement of Disadvantaged Learners training may include:
- The Achievement Gap; what the latest trends, data and research teach us
- Cultures of Poverty; empathy not excuses
- 'This is how we do it here'. Consistency and its effect on achievement
- Teaching behaviours for employability
- Understanding disadvantage, identifying need
- Expectations, perceptions and labels
- Barriers to learning. Practical strategies for step changes in speaking and listening
- Practical strategies for adressing key issues in the classroom and in the curriculum
- Wheels of Misfortune
- Glass ceilings and fear of flying
- The effects of economic disadvantage; what does it teach young people?
- Limiting cycles of self esteem
- Motivating fearful and reluctant learners
- Precise, formal and effective spoken communication
- Gateway skills for HE and employment
- Mentors, models and essential guides
- NEET cycles