4CTL Workshops
Staff Development Days
One and Two Day Workshops For Intensive Staff Development
Our one and two day events enable teachers to better understand and embody the transformative power of a 4Cs approach to education, learning and classroom challenges. They are designed to be stand-alone, professional learning events, but can be tailored into longer learning programs or crafted to be kick-off events for a long term partnership with 4CTL. We’re more than happy to develop any workshop to meet the needs and desires of your school community.
Content is based on the research of our founders, Professor Michael Anderson and Dr Miranda Jefferson, outlined in their books, Transforming Schools and Transforming Education.
Workshops on the 4Cs
Explore Creativity as a teachable and learnable capability.
While research continues to show that success in the 21st century requires the ability to think and operate creatively, many educators still struggle with seeing themselves as creative, and with teaching creativity to their students. Participants will engage with the Creativity Cascade, our diagrammatic representation of creativity, and explore how the Cascade can enable and support teaching creativity, and building student metacognition around their own creativity and the creativity of others.
Explore Communication as a teachable and learnable capability.
Through carefully curated and dynamic learning activities, participants will practice the skills involved in communication, reflect on these experiences and consider how to apply them to their classrooms, meetings and within their school communities as a whole.
Explore Collaboration as a teachable and learnable capability.
Human endeavour, whether learning, creating, solving, competing, playing or working, requires the ability to engage with others. Our ability to encourage others into these endeavours can mean the difference between success and failure; a connected or isolated life; a constructive or destructive society. Participants will develop a greater knowledge and confidence in themselves as collaborators, and as teachers and facilitators of this capacity in their students, with their colleagues and in their communities.
Explore Critical Reflection as a teachable and learnable capability.
The most powerful tool for deep learning and transformation of individuals, groups and communities is critical reflection. But it can be challenging, vague and difficult to implement as regular practice. Participants will explore the conceptual basis for critical reflection. They will also engage in the experience of critical reflection using our coherence maker, the critical reflection crucible, which offers a tangible scaffold for understanding and exploring what critical reflection is and how to use it in classrooms, meetings and the school community.
Other workshops for teachers & leadership groups
A 2-Day Practical Workshop
with follow-up implementation session
Participants will explore what it means to do being well, and the role that being agentic learners can play in improving wellbeing. This important reframe of the role schools play in student wellbeing is vital at this time of significant focus and investment into wellbeing activities and programs.
A 2-Day Practical Workshop
with follow-up implementation session
Learning communities have the potential to be transformational places for students who struggle with self-regulation, learning and resilience. Becoming such a place involves transformation in two key ways, both covered in this workshop. The first is transforming the way teachers teach. The second is transforming the systems of understanding students when they engage in challenging behaviour.
A 2-Day Deep Learning Experience exploring processes and scaffolds for developing metacognition in students
This workshop is in development. Do let us know, via the link below, if you’re interested in knowing more about this workshop.
A 2-Day workshop introducing the Learning Disposition Wheel and its application to improve learning.
The Learning Disposition Wheel is a powerful tool in building metacognition in students. This workshop, using many examples of schools using the wheel with students from K-12, will outline what the nine dispositions are and, through practical, embodied learning activities, participants will come to understand their own use of each disposition, as a learner.
The Learning Disposition Wheel will also be unpacked as a tool for helping self-regulation and challenging behaviour, through its ability to scaffold and give language to the struggles students face in classrooms and beyond.
Need a different topic?
We’d love to co-create the ideal SDD learning content for your team.
Contact us to set up a discussion around your needs,
your community and your learning goals.
