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Behind the Headlines

Innovative teacher training, webinars, conferences and CPD
Free virtual CPD, bespoke sessions for your school, and initial teacher training

  • 98% of teachers said our training was very good or excellent

  • 100% of trainee teachers said the webinar gave them ideas and resources to complement their teaching

    • Tackling Media Literacy in the classroom – supporting secondary aged students with SEND to critically engage with news and media
    Thursday 16 January, 4.00-4.45pm
    This CPD is suitable for educators working with students aged 11-18 with needs such as general and moderate learning difficulties, and social and communication interaction difficulties.

    In this interactive session we discuss how we co-created with teachers of SEND a distinct and flexible cross curricular media literacy programme for secondary aged students and we will share engaging and age appropriate activities and resources that you can use in your classroom.

    Participants will:

  • Engage with a selection of learning activities from the programme and reflect how these can be used with young people and shared with colleagues.

  • Gain an understanding of how to use and apply the free suite of resources and detailed teacher guidance to allow inclusive learning experiences within a group, age range and subjects.

  • Develop strategies and ideas to support students’ critical literacy skills and awareness of how the media impacts their own behaviour and wellbeing.

    • Register now
    Initial teacher training
    We deliver a popular 40 minute webinar for English, History and Citizenship trainee teachers on critical literacy and teaching news. During the webinar we model our Fake or for real workshop and equip participants with skills, resources and ideas to teach the session with their practice schools. Contact us if you would like to book a session.
    Register here
    Bespoke training
    On request we can organise tailored news, journalism and critical literacy training for a range of educators and to support specific subjects or initiatives. We recently ran a CPD session for a teaching department who wanted to run a news day in their school. Contact us if you would like to discuss arranging bespoke training for your organisation.
    Email us to show interest
    Resources to support students
    We offer a range of resources to support and embed news and media literacy across the secondary curriculum, including advice, tips and downloadable material.

    Fill in a short form to gain access to all of our resources.
    All resources
    Following the informative and interesting training session, we felt confident in delivering a successful day of activities, focused on career, researching, writing, and editing skills. Students responded really well to the variety of tasks and enjoyed the challenges they faced over the course of the day. Overall, a really positive experience!
    Teacher
    After a bespoke CPD webinar
    A brilliant morning. This is exactly what a 21st Century PGCE should be delivering. The trainees found it really useful for their classroom practice and for extending their thinking on media literacy.
    Tom Donnai
    Subject Leader, PGCE History, University of Manchester
    Really useful ideas at a time when our young people need to be equipped with the skills to question what they are reading. Really informative and great that it was packed with info!
    Teacher
    After a Fake News and Misinformation CPD webinar

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