January 2008

NEW! ALL AMBIT COURSES ARE NOW ACCREDITED BY EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY FOR BOTH UNDER-GRADUATE AND POST GRADUATE QUALIFICATIONS

For further information about accreditation please contact Michele Walker, email michele@ambit-learning.com

January 2008

BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT PACKAGE FOR PARENTS AVAILABLE NOW

Working Together to Improve Behaviour – A Home / School Partnership

Working Together to Improve Behaviour enables schools to engage and support parents in the delivery of consistent and effective behaviour standards and management leading to improved behaviour both at school and at home.

The DVD-based home/school discussion package provides powerful triggers and insights to motivate, inform and involve parents in meaningful debate, attitudinal change and emotionally literate strategies around behaviour. . Working Together to Improve Behaviour will help schools and Local Authorities provide support for parents as part of an Extended School, Transition or school Improvement initiative. Click here to see an explanation of the course

Says Pat Griffiths, Head of the Behaviour Support Service of Caerphilly LEA Inclusion Services, “You can’t over emphasise the importance of schools gaining the support of parents in their efforts to create a positive and well managed behaviour ethos. We’re confident that this DVD will provide schools with a very powerful tool for getting parents involved, helping them with positive strategies and showing them the significance of their influence.”

For further information about this exciting new programme please contact Michele Walker, email michele@ambit-learning.com

January 2008

COMING SOON! PROMOTING POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR IN EARLY YEARS - SCOTLAND

January 2008

NEW! BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT IN EARLY YEARS - FRAMEWORK FOR INTERVENTION

Behaviour Management in Early Years is a motivating, engaging and focused way of involving early years practitioners in discussing, reflecting upon and implementing effective and consistent behaviour management within their own settings using the Framework for Intervention.

The training course features real world material from a representative selection of early years settings reflecting real issues and concerns and demonstrates best practice approaches to dealing with them.

Dramatised scenarios present some typical ‘difficult situations’ and allow participants to explore different ways of resolving them.

The Training Course is divided into modules to organise the learning and offer the maximum flexibility of delivery and can be facilitated in-house with the aid of the supportive and easy-to-use Course Book and Facilitator’s Guide which is provided on CD-ROM. All Ambit Training Courses are accredited for undergraduate and post graduate qualifications by Edge Hill University.

Click here to see an excerpt.

For further information about this exciting new programme please contact Michele Walker, email michele@ambit-learning.com

January 2008

NEW INVEST IN YOURSELF

RESOURCES FOR RECRUITIMENT AND TRAINING OF TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Ambit has recently completed a Teaching Assistants promotional/recruitment DVD for Cheshire Local Authority. The DVD is the first part of a Teaching Assistant’s training programme and is designed to enthuse people to become TAs and enthuse TAs to become HLTAs. The DVD is a celebration of roles, rewards and achievements and it features feedback from a range of practising TAs, HLTAs, heads, teachers, pupils and parents. The programme also explores the many career pathways that are available according to an individual’s talents and preferences. This programme is now available for purchase by individual schools or Local Authorities. Click here to see an excerpt from the programme.

For further information about this new programme please contact Michele Walker, email michele@ambit-learning.com

April 2007

PUPIL PEER COACHING AVAILABLE NOW

COACHING DVD TO HELP SCHOOLS CREATE “THE COLLEGIATE FEEL”

In today’s schools, pupils are increasingly encouraged to reflect on their own learning. Graham Maslen, Head Teacher of North Halifax Grammar School, is spearheading a collaborative of six Calderdale schools in co – producing with Ambit a DVD - based training package on pupil coaching.

The course shows how to initiate and manage a pupil coaching system for maximum effect and with minimum inconvenience. This course is available now.

Says Graham Maslen, “I’m a firm believer that open, continuing and unselfconscious discussion about learning between teachers and pupils, teachers and teachers and pupils and pupils has huge benefits for the quality of pupils’ learning, their actual attainments and the ethos of the school as a whole. This is the basis of “collegiality” and I’m convinced it’s the way schools need to go and will go to engage young people in the future and achieve higher and higher standards.”

The project is managed by Educational Consultant David Farrant, formerly of Calderdale Council’s Education Department. “Having previously worked with Ambit on our highly successful staff coaching DVD Learning from Each Other, we felt that they were the ideal company to make this new programme, bringing with them all the right experience, expertise and sensitivities.”

February 7th 2007

MANAGING THE LUNCH HOUR ONLINE TRIAL NOW AVAILABLE

It has always been a challenge to adequately describe in words the advantages of media based training. So instead, Ambit are giving you the opportunity to see for yourself!

For the first time ever, an interactive DVD-based CPD course, Managing the Lunch Hour* is available to try out online. The trial gives you the opportunity to view sample video clips and experience how these and the supporting materials integrate to form a comprehensive and valuable training resource.

The full DVD - based professional development package is currently in use by thousands of schools across the UK and has recently become available in Australia and New Zealand.

"This is one of the best training programmes I have seen, it almost seems to have been produced for us" says Janet Emmerson, Behaviour Management Coordinator at Earlsmead First & Middle School.

Martin Kirkham, Head Teacher of St. Saviours Primary School said "Lunchtimes are calmer now, after lunch is calmer. That's a direct result of Ambit's course".

You can view the trial by visiting HERE. Alternatively you find out more about Managing the Lunch Hour HERE.

* Primary Version

October 12th 2006

MANAGING CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR FOR ALL GLASGOW SCHOOLS

Following an extensive evaluation, Glasgow City has acquired a full licence to use Ambit's Managing Challenging Behaviour including a copy for each of its primary and secondary schools.

The DVD - based professional development package is being used to support Glasgow's September INSET day on behaviour management.

Says Margaret Orr, Head of Service [SEN] of Glasgow City's Education Services. "We chose Managing Challenging Behaviour because we wanted to provide our schools with another comprehensive and high quality resource that they could use themselves to reflect upon and further develop existing practice.

The resource can be used on an ongoing basis for refresher and individual training and for induction of new staff. The course will engage staff at all levels and encourage them to bring in fresh initiatives and try new approaches. The materials complement an already extensive range of CPD opportunities within the authority".