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Learning with the NUT

Reading4Pleasure (OD/68)

A one-day conference at NUT HQ, London, in partnership with the Campaign for the Book, Just Read and the National Literacy Association.

Speakers will include Bernard Ashley, Malorie Blackman, Christine Blower, Deborah Bullivant, Wendy Cooling, Alan Gibbons and Michael Rosen.

For teachers, school librarians, support staff with responsibility for literacy or the school library, head teachers and governors.

• Inspire/promote good practice in encouraging reading for pleasure, enhancing pupils’ learning and wellbeing.

• Highlight reading for pleasure as an essential part of the broader reading curriculum.

• Explore the role of teachers and others in ‘choice, emotion and opinion’, all central to reading for pleasure.

Cost: FREE to NUT members in the North, North West, Yorkshire/Midlands and South West regions and Wales, £25 to NUT members in the Midlands, South East and Eastern regions), £50 to NUT members in London, £75 to others.

Download an application form from www.teachers.org.uk/cpd.

Behaviour CPD

Leading behaviour improvement (tt/75)

For head teachers, deputies/assistants and all leadership group, especially those with pastoral and behaviour responsibilities.

Tutor: Rob Long, Education Works

Initial seminar: Wednesday 26 - Thursday 27 January

Follow-up: Wednesday 6 April at NUT HQ, London

Cost: £75 (NUT members), £225 (others). OPTIONAL dinner with B&B (£50) on 26 January if requested.

Accreditation: TLA (Stage 1).

GRTP - Improving classroom behaviour (TF/81)

For teachers completing or who have recently completed Graduate or Registered Teacher Training or other employment-based routes to qualification.

Tutors: Paul Howard and Pete Hrekow

When: Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 March

Where: Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire

Cost: FREE (NUT members), £150 (others). Accommodation 8 March included.

NQTs - Getting behaviour right (TF/82)

 For teachers in their induction year during 2010/11

Tutors: Liz Floyer, Paul Howard and Pete Hrekow

When: Friday 18 and Saturday 19 March

Where: Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire

Cost: FREE (NUT members), £150 others. Accommodation 18 March included.

Internationalising learning - on the global stage

FREE CPD helping pairs of teachers and schools to:

• Teach about international issues

• Embed the global dimension in the curriculum

• Enrich teaching and learning

• Gain international status in England and Wales.

These courses are for primary and secondary teachers

Wrexham: 8/9 March, follow-up 21/22 June (T2T/49)

Exeter: 15/16 March, follow-up 28/29 June (T2T/50)

FREE. Includes meals, refreshments, accommodation. Travel costs can be reclaimed. Schools can recoup the cost of one-day teacher supply cover per participant. Funded by Department for International Development.

Full details at www.teachers.org.uk/cpdinternational.

For full details and to apply for all NUT CPD opportunities, visit www.teachers.org.uk/cpdcalendar, email nutcpd@nut.org.uk, or call 020 7380 4719.