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Classroom Connect

Supporting Teachers, Championing Learning

Classroom Connect

Classroom Connect is °Ç¸çºÚÁÏ’s Professional Development support. We believe that by connecting teachers to our team of Professional Development Specialists and to one another, we can provide real, practical, classroom tested support that will enhance teaching and learning for you and your colleagues. Please contact your School Success Advisor to discuss any of these Classroom Connect services or to see what sessions may be available to your school as part of your contract. Alternatively email us at classroomconnect@discoveryed.com or simply book a session using the form below.

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Classroom Connect Offerings

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Classroom Connect Workshops

In person or remote PD sessions led by one of our Professional Development Specialists, who will tailor the session to suit your school. These can be delivered after school or as part of one of your INSET days. Click here to explore our Classroom Connect Workshop Catalogue
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Classroom Connect Live

We will host an event in your school or a venue of your choice designed to connect real teachers to one another where they can share their best ideas and advice on what really works in their classrooms. Our team will provide Keynote speaker/s and support you and your colleagues to share their own best practice ideas.
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Classroom Connect Immersion

Hosted in your school, these in-person events enable you to experience new ideas and resources first hand. Experts from our team will showcase and explore how innovative resources could benefit your classroom by delivering hands on activities for children.
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Parent Workshop

One of our PD specialists will deliver an interactive workshop for parents to help them understand the value and impact of the DE products and services you subscribe to.
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Classroom Connect Assembly

One of our PD specialists will deliver an interactive assembly for your children to motivate and engage them to get the most put of the DE services you subscribe to.
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Classroom Connect Conference

Our PD Specialists will curate a day of professional learning for your school, MAT or local school groups. This will be designed with you but will include providing keynote speakers, hands on workshops and interactive immersive experiences.

Classroom Connect Podcast

Our ‘Why to’ podcast is hosted by our Director of Professional Development Andrew Tidswell and Ian Rockey, School Success Advisor and former headteacher. These lively discussions cover a range of relevant classroom topics, some of which feature expert guest contributors. Each episode is no longer thanÌýa schoolÌýbreak time so can be listened to easily at any time of the day.Ìý

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Full Catalogue

Our Classroom Connect offerings cover everything from specific-product deep dives to workshops on the broader challenges in today’s classroom. If there is a specific topic you’d like to cover in yours, they’re also entirely flexible and can be tailored to the needs of each school.

Doodle Learning

Next steps with Doodle – 60 to 90 minutes

Intervene – Consolidate – Extend
- Exploring how Doodle provides an actionable equitable solution to challenge and support all children
- Linking to your SDP – how can Doodle support your goals?
- School specific scenarios and action planning

Espresso

Next steps with Espresso – 60 to 90 minutes

Personalise – adapt – create
- Exploring how the tools built into Espresso can be used to challenge and support all children
- Linking to your SDP – how can Espresso support your goals?
- School specific scenarios and action planning

Coding

Coding Introductory PD session – 60 to 90 minutes

- Tour of Coding lesson structure and purpose – with hands on time
- Introduction to the Create free code area tools and data – with examples and hands on time
- Action planning – set targets for now, next, after.

Coding

Next steps with Coding – 60 to 90 minutes

Personalise – adapt – create
- Exploring how Coding can be used to challenge and support all children
-Linking free coding challenges to your curriculum to deepen understanding and application beyond the computing curriculum
- School specific examples scenarios and action planning

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Teaching Maths in a Digital World

Digital tools can enable us to create rich learning experiences in maths - helping to make concepts more relatable and concrete which in turn helps children to have a deeper more secure understanding. Adapted to suit the resources you have access to this course focuses on how digital can have a real impact on progress, confidence and understanding.

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Teaching English in a Digital World

Explore ways that digital tools and resources can open a whole new world of learning in English. Adapted to suit the resources you have access to and the specific needs of your children this course explore creative approaches to classroom practice which will inspire deep learning and confidence in your children.

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Immersive Content

Learn how to use Augmented Reality to enhance learning in your classroom. Moving beyond the initial 'wow' of immersive technology this course provides the why and the what next. We will explore how to use Sandbox AR in school to build powerful and impactful learning experiences. Build environments to explore, record these experiences and use them to develop rich content that can, for example, inspire powerful written work.

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Bringing STEM to Life

Creating solutions to real world issues builds children's skills and extends their understanding across the curriculum. This course explores ways you can build STEM based projects that use and apply understanding from all subjects whilst giving them the opportunity to recognise, use and develop essential skills such as the 4Cs. (Creativity, Collaboration, Communication and Critical Thinking)

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Getting Creative with Coding, AR and Digital

Building authentic, shareable apps can have a lasting impact on children's learning across the curriculum. This course focuses on ways you can use Coding, Augmented Reality and Digital tools to develop children's ability to design and build apps and Augmented environments or media with a purpose to meet creative briefs to enhance their learning across the curriculum.

Success Webinars

Each term we present several webinars focused on helping you to get the best out of the °Ç¸çºÚÁÏ services you use. Whether you want a broad refresher of a product or a more focused look at a specific resource, asset or topic, these 40-minute live sessions provide a wealth of practical advice and guidance.

Join us and find out how Doodle can reduce teacher workload and some tips and tricks to save you valuable time.
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°Ç¸çºÚÁÏ’s block coding lessons provide a graphical approach to coding — where pupils drag and drop events, objects and actions to make things happen in a program, progressing to building their own games and apps.