REVIEWS: Thinking Skills Teacher Training Day at Park View High School Birmingham

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 Teachers at Park View thoroughly enjoy their training session run by Alan David Pritchard. Here are some of their enthusiastic reviews

***** Creative, innovative and above all, informative. A very inspiring session. Thank you!
*****Refreshing old knowledge. Enjoyed the team work. Enjoyed the chance to talk and discuss ideas with other members of the team.
*****I thought the day was excellent, was really useful and gave me confidence in a lot of the subjects I work in. Was brilliant.
*****Interesting, snappy, lively, eye-opening.

*****Alan always enthuses me to be a better teacher.
***** Excellent passion and enthusiasm to getting creative learning going.
*****Another truly amazing day with a variety of resources, ideas and brilliant techniques to employ in the classroom and with the pupils.
*****Very well organised and presented. Fun, informative and very useful. Thank you.
*****Brilliant ideas. Not overwhelming but can be used one at a time.
*****Well done for the wonderful presentation.
*****Great day. You warmed us up on a really cold day. Really enjoyable.
*****Excellent practical ideas to take away and implement. Great delivery.
*****Some useful tips and hints to use. Useful games and resources that can be used with the pupils.
****The Presentation was interesting and split into manageable sections. I liked the videos and the visual learning tools. I will visit the website.
****Interesting and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Time passed fast.
****A lively and entertaining day.
****Very enthusiastic. Good presentation which emphasised the importance of learning and how to effectively implement these skills in a classroom. Good voice projection and interesting way of distributing his information. Used interesting ways of keeping us enthusiastic which helps us to anticipate what we will do next.
****Very entertaining and informative. I especially enjoyed the bridge planning.
****Very good. Very entertaining, and stimulating – all day – what an achievement!
****Good resources/ examples. Good range of activities.
****I enjoyed being reminded of things which I tend to forget. I liked the cracks and the bridge reasoning activity.
****Your enthusiasm is great and very contagious. Thanks for your wackiness!
****A very good round up of lots of approaches to teaching with awareness of thinking skills. Interesting for most of the time. Some new approaches. Lots of new ways of presenting. The theories were linked successfully to practice. The activities were stimulating and quite good fun.
****Some useful hints and tips. Very informative and interesting.
**** A very enjoyable session. A lot of useful ideas shared. We enjoyed the funny bits. The instructor was audible and very positive (but not quite mad). Many things to try out in the lessons.