Newcastle University

 

Forthcoming Events

 

 

Past Events

The first international conference on VERP! - VERP is video enhanced reflective practice and supports professional development by building on current strengths and developing attuned communication. It does this through shared reflection on video clips of practice. This event took place on 10 & 11 June at Newcastle University. To find out more please click here.

 

CfLaT Event! Supporting Children and Families in the North East: Are Children’s Zones the Way Forward? A free one-day conference was held on May 23rd at Newcastle University on Children's Zone's and the STRIVE model, looking at what integrated multi-agency area-based models will improve the well-being of children and families. For more info click here.

CfLAT presented two seminars of interest to educationalists, teachers and linguists based on the work of Caleb Gattegno (1911-1988).

 'Subordinating Teaching to Learning': the theories of Caleb Gattegno 2:30 – 4pm 18th October 2011 Room 2.20 Research Beehive – Old Library Building

 Gattegno's 'Silent Way' approach to Language Teaching 5pm – 6:30 pm 18th Oc-tober 2011 Room G21/22 Devonshire Building

The seminar presenters, Roslyn Young and Piers Messum, are authors of a study of Caleb Gattegno. For more information contact David.Wright@ncl.ac.uk

 

CflaT Conference 2011! Our School Buildings: achieving productive relationships between school settings and educational activities, took place on Friday 15th July. For further information, please click here.

 

 

International Visitor

 

Professor Helen Timperley, from the University of Auckland, visited the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching for two weeks from 25th October 2010 during which she was involved in a series of events:

 

Date	Time	Event	Further information
24/10/2010	Late afternoon	Professor Timperley Arrives
25/10/2010	Morning	Meeting a selection of key staff	Invitation only
	12.30 – 2.00	Informal Lunchtime Seminar	Open to any school staff
26/10/2010	10.00 -12.30	Introduction to CfLaT Informal Seminar	For various CfLaT sub-groups to explain their work/projects/outputs
27/10/2010	Free Day
	3.30 - 4.30	Open Lecture: Realising the Power of Professional Learning	Open to all. Download the flier here and download the PowerPoint presentation here.
28/10/2010	11.00 – 4.00	Professional Learning Seminar	Invitation only. Collaboration discussion around different CPD/PL contexts stimulated by HT introduction.
28/10/2010	Afternoon	L2L Seminar	Open to all. With Kate Wall & Professor Steve Higgins from Durham
	Evening	Social Event	Mark Watson (stand up comedian) at City Hall
01/11/2010	9.00 – 12.30	Detailed discussion on coaching	Invitation only. With David Leat, Rachel Lofthouse and Carl Towler
	Afternoon	Visit to Benton Park Primary	With Julie McGrane (Enquiry Network School)
02/11/2010	Morning	Visit to Enquiry Network School	With Rachel Lofthouse
	Afternoon	Visit to Enquiry Network School	With Rachel Lofthouse
03/11/2010	10.00 - 11.00	Bid Writing Group, room G16	Optional. No active part required but gives a fuller insight into research culture
	12.00 - 1.00	CfLaT Guidance group	Optional. No active part required but gives a fuller insight into research culture
	3.00 - 4.30	CfLaT research Tea	Winner of masters dissertation prize. Click here for details.
	4.30 - 6.00	Enquiry Network Supplementary Meeting	to reflect on networks challenges and opportunities in relation to professional learning.
	Evening	Social Event	Enquiry Network Pizza Outing
04/11/2010	All day	Equate Day 2	30-40 minute session on parameters of effective professional learning.
05/11/2010	Free Day

 

 

 

CfLaT Annual Conference 2009 held! This year the theme was: Sustaining Educational Change Through Partnership, and the conference took place on Friday May 1st 2009. To learn more about how successful it was, please click here.

CfLaT hosted a BERA Seminar on 'Researching Pupil Voice: Issues of Participation and Inclusion' on Friday 24th April, 2009. To learn more, please click here.

 

Liz Todd ran a 5-day level 1 training course in Narrative Therapy with Hugh Fox (Centre for Narrative Practice) at Newcastle University, on March 23rd, 24th & May 6th, 7th, 8th 2009. Cost £420 (£336 self-funders). Email for more details.

 

Learning in Thinking Communities: Research and Practice Annual Conference 2008

Tuesday 4th March, 2008

Our second Annual Conference took place at St. James Park Football Ground, Newcastle.

 

Leading partnerships for 14-19 provision
What are the issues - for leaders and learners - of partnership
provision of education 14-19?

Thursday 12th July, 2007

This half-day conference took place at the Metro Marriott Hotel, Gateshead. For further details, please click here, and for a booking form, please click here.

 

Research, Teaching and School Improvement Annual Conference 2007

Thursday 22nd March, 2007

This conference took place at St. James Park Football Ground, Newcastle. Click here for more information about this event.

 

Do Buildings Make a Difference? School Buildings and Learning Environments National Seminar

Wednesday 28th September, 2005

This seminar took place at the Thistle Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne. For details of the seminar, please click here.