NACE- DWS Partnership Course: Teaching your Exceptionally Able Pupils at Foundation Stage and Key Stages 1 and 2
For Able, Gifted and Talented Co-ordinators/Lead Teachers, Strand Co-ordinators, Headteachers and teachers with an interest in providing for particularly able pupils

Location
London (venue TBC)

Date and time
16th May 2008
10.00am-3.30pm

Fees
NACE Members £250.00 plus VAT
Non Members    £275.00 plus VAT

FURTHER DETAILS AND BOOKING

To book a place/s please email cpd@nace.co.uk with your full name and postal address. We will then send invoice, details of venue and programme.

For more information on DWS please contact info@dwspartnership.co.uk

NACE - DWS Facilitator training
NACE, in partnership with DWS Partnership, has opportunities for paid work; working as a trained facilitator with groups of schools in your area who wish to set up Day a Week School for teaching exceptionally able pupils.

Since its inception last year, Day a Week School, provided by NACE and DWS in partnership, is being rapidly taken up by schools nationwide. It provides a weekly teaching and learning programme for the top 2% of the ability range in Key Stage 2. The pupils attend a continuous weekly full day class along with other children from their partnership of schools. Day a Week School has been successfully piloted in Cheshire and was presented at a workshop at the DfES national conference.



More Trained Facilitators are needed
The creators of Day a Week School, Carol Cummings and Aileen Hoare, will support partnerships of schools to set up this programme. This support includes introduction & planning meetings, identification of appropriate pupils, selection of and support for teachers. More trained facilitators are needed to undertake this work on behalf of DWS. This amounts to approximately 12 days' work for each partnership of 10 schools in the set-up year. 

The work involves leading meetings with groups of headteachers, DWS teachers and parents, recruiting DWS seconded teachers, working through the identification procedures with schools, leading challenge workshops with children, supporting lead headteachers with practicalities in the set up year and monitoring and supporting DWS teachers.

Facilitator Training is in three parts:

Part 1: Some pre-course tasks, followed by a one-day training which will enable you to support the setting up and maintenance of a Day a Week School

Part 2: Shadowing Carol Cummings and Aileen Hoare through a complete set up and support process for a Day a Week School class

Part 3: Acting as lead facilitator with the support of Carol Cummings and Aileen Hoare in the setting up and support process for a new Day a Week School class.
N.B. Parts 1-3: Will form continuous assessment of suitability for the role.

Part 1: Early 2008
Venue: London (TBC)

Parts 2 & 3 will follow as class set-ups become available.

Programme
The background to Day a Week School and its philosophy
Input on identification of exceptionally able pupils & characteristics of suitable teachers. The practical aspects of supporting the setting up and maintenance of a Day a Week School.

Tutors
DWS partnership, Carol Cummings and Aileen Hoare, creators of Day a Week School

Fees for one-day training - £275.00 plus VAT

FOR FURTHER DETAILS AND BOOKING
please contact Carol or Aileen -  info@dwspartnership