DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT AND MEDIATED LEARNING:
Courses available

Dynamic Mediated Learning Skills (full day)

This course is aimed at educational psychologists, teachers, teaching assistants, SENCOs, parents and related professionals who are interested in learning about mediated learning and what it can offer their practice when working daily with children and young people. Presenter: Fraser Lauchlan/Clare Daly
Cost £180. Available online. Contact us by email (fraser@dynamicassessment.uk) or by using our Contact form if you are interested in this course. Dates are arranged once minimum quota is reached.

Rethink Learning using Dynamic Assessment (DA) (full day)

This is our most popular course and workshops are held throughout the year both online and in person. See upcoming dates below. Using our textbooks "Improving Learning Through Dynamic Assessment" and "Applying Dynamic Assessment in Schools: A Practical Resource" as a guide, this course is designed to provide specific ideas about how to incorporate DA into your daily professional practice. The workshop outlines briefly the theory underlying dynamic assessment, builds upon existing skills, examines some materials used in dynamic assessment, and considers many issues relating to putting DA into practice, including feedback and report writing. Includes looking at video footage and real-life cases. It prepares attendees for embarking on our Advanced Level Practitioner certification programme.
Cost IN PERSON - £250 (includes book and 'I am dynamic' cards. ONLINE - £190 (without book). £220 (with book). Presenter: Fraser Lauchlan/Clare Daly
Dates currently available for bookings: 24 November 2023 (London), 6th December 2023 (online).

Feeding forward using Dynamic Goals (half day)

This course focuses on the unique combination of dynamic assessment and goal theory. Using our textbook "Applying Dynamic Assessment in Schools: A Practical Resource" as a guide we focus on how to move forward from dynamic assessment into forward planning for children and young people, helping them to realise significant goals and achieve valuable progress in their learning as well as in other areas of their life. Presenter: Clare Daly
Cost £90 (without book); £125 (with book). Available online. Contact us by email (fraser@dynamicassessment.uk) or by using our Contact form if you are interested in this course. Dates are arranged once minimum quota is reached.

How to create autonomous learners (full day)

To achieve their full potential, it is essential that children develop skills to become autonomous learners, yet this skill does not come naturally to many learners. This workshop uses the textbook "How to Create Autonomous Learners" as a focus to outline the theory, practice and the implementation of evidence-based approaches to develop essential metacognitive and self-study skills. The workshop explains how to get students, parents and partners on board and how to implement these ideas across a class, school, or consortium. Presenter Taryn Moir (Author of 'How to Create Autonomous Learners').
Areas covered include:
How to get children and young people ready to learn; Why it is important to teach learning strategies; Encouraging children to become more active in the process of learning while also nurturing the development of creativity.
Easily applicable in any classroom, this training aims to support children’s development of important metacognitive, self-regulatory and self-study skills, and provides teachers and school leaders with evidence-based approaches for implementing these ideas with the support of parents, students and partners.
Cost £190 (without book); £220 (with book). Available online. Contact us by email (fraser@dynamicassessment.uk) or by using our Contact form if you are interested in this course. Dates are arranged once minimum quota is reached. Presenter: Taryn Moir (Author of 'How to Create Autonomous Learners').

Combining digital feedback (feedforward) and dynamic assessment (full day)

This training is for advanced DA practitioners, who wish to take their skills in Dynamic Assessment to a higher level. The aim is to develop skills in digital feedback (or as we call it, digital feedforward) where the video recording of DA can be used as a vehicle for planning a programme of intervention. This course prepares attendees for embarking on the Expert Level Practitioner certification programme.
Cost £220 (with book). £185 (without book). Available online. Contact us by email (fraser@dynamicassessment.uk) or by using our Contact form if you are interested in this course. Dates are arranged once minimum quota is reached.

Working with Bilingual, Multilingual and EAL learners (full day)

This workshop looks at some of the theory and concepts of bilingualism and multilingualism, considers some of the advantages and disadvantages of being raised bilingual according to the literature, and explores implications and practical issues for educational psychologists and related professionals who work with bilingual, multilingual and EAL learners. Visit here for an external, objective appraisal of this training. ("I cannot recommend this workshop highly enough and feel it was a useful way of considering recent research, learning from Fraser’s wealth of experience"). Presenter: Fraser Lauchlan
Cost £185 (without book). £220 (with book). Available online. Contact us by email (fraser@dynamicassessment.uk) or by using our Contact form if you are interested in this course. Dates are arranged once minimum quota is reached.