Improving Classroom Performance : Practical Applications for Effective Teaching and Learning

Dragonfly Training was founded in 1999 and has established an excellent reputation internationally for providing inspiring, realistic and practical training courses for teachers. In this, their fi rst book, three of their top trainers provide some of the very best handsonapproaches to teaching.

Dragonfly's six key principles are:

Promote effective starters and plenaries

Provide constant reinforcement as a means of embedding knowledge andprovide on-going revision

Introduce a variety of ideas

Do first, teach after - whenever possible

Encourage students to create teaching materials themselves

Demonstrate and articulate success by modelling the desired outcomes

The trainers aim to make your life easier by providing practical strategies that can be used my most teachers, in most subjects, most of the time and by offering insight and ideas to engage, inspire and motivate including:

How you present yourself in the classroom

Rules, routines and rituals for establishing effective learning patterns

Strategies to make your teaching life easier

Making your classroom the one every student wants to be in

Making your department the envy of the school and using ICT to the maximum; Dragonfly Training was founded in 1999 and has established an excellent reputation internationally for providing inspiring, realistic and practical training courses for teachers.

Stephen Chapman is the Managing Director of Dragonfly Training Ltd and has delivered CPD at hundreds of schools in the UK and internationally. Formerly an innovative history teacher, Stephen has a proven track record of success in schools in London, Nairobi and The Bahamas. As with so much in life a book is a fantastic start but if you want to take things further then it's probably best to experience it for yourself. Improving Classroom Performance has been delivered as a training day to hundreds of schools. Each of the three authors can deliver this training day, and you can be sure that it will conform to the Dragonfly promise of being totally practical, and delivered in a hands-on and entertaining manner. To book this course as an in school training session please contact Stephen Chapman, MD Dragonfly Training at info@dragonfly-training.co.uk or visit www.dragonfly-training.co.uk for further references. You may even like to call him on +44 (0) 29 2071 1787.

Steve Garnett delivers innovative, exciting and inspirational learning and teaching focused INSET. Such is the demand for his work that it not only involves working across the UK but regularly involves international commitments in Europe, the Middle East and South East Asia too. As with so much in life a book is a fantastic start but if you want to take things further then it's probably best to experience it for yourself. Improving Classroom Performance has been delivered as a training day to hundreds of schools. Each of the three authors can deliver this training day, and you can be sure that it will conform to the Dragonfly promise of being totally practical, and delivered in a hands-on and entertaining manner. To book this course as an in school training session please contact Stephen Chapman, MD Dragonfly Training at info@dragonfly-training.co.uk or visit www.dragonfly-training.co.uk for further references. You may even like to call him on +44 (0) 29 2071 1787.

Alan Jervis taught in seven different high schools over a period of more than 28 years. He has delivered over 600 courses to teachers in Britain on brain based learning, delivering outstanding lessons, thinking skills, emotional intelligence and Assessment for Learning. He has also trained teachers in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.