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6 Apr 2011 09:01:11
Respected educational author, trainer and presenter Sue Cowley offered some top tips to University of Bedfordshire students on a recent visit.
Cowley was making her third visit to Bedford and the PCE (Post-Compulsory Education) Study Day was the last of four held at the campus this academic year.
Offering a ‘Positive Behaviour Management’ course which gives teaching staff practical, realistic and honest advice about better ways of managing learners’ behaviour, Cowley’s lecture also hoped to encourage teachers and other staff to try new approaches and feel more inspired about their professional role.
Peter Hadfield, the University’s Course Leader in Post-Compulsory Education, said: “The feedback from the day is overwhelmingly positive and the students hugely enjoyed it. A lot of the students personally emailed Sue afterwards to thank her for the session.
“Through her involvement with us, Sue is now involved in Post-Compulsory Education and she has been asked by some of our partner colleges to do specific work with them.”
Students have four visits to Bedford during their two-year part-time course, with study days in November and March for both first and second year students.
The most recent study day attracted 270 of its year one students and as well as coming from the Bedford campus, they also came from nine other partner colleges – Barnfield in Luton, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Tresham in Kettering, Castle in Nottingham, Grantham, Leicester, North Herts and Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, Banbury and Oxford (OCVC).
Cowley’s morning talk was followed by an afternoon session in which interest groups reflected a range of 25-30 different subject areas.
Hadfield said: “The purpose is to bring students together from the different college centres to meet one another but more importantly, to share ideas and experiences and good practices in their particular subjects.
“Last year’s Ofsted report recognised the study days as being a distinctive feature of the teaching provision at the University.”
During the academic year, other guest speakers were Vivienne Berkeley from LSIS (Learning and Skills Improvement Service) and Kathryn Ecclestone who is Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Professor Ecclestone stimulated discussion on a controversial topic – the dangerous rise of therapeutic education.
For further details on study days, visit www.bedspce.org.uk
The above photos show Sue Cowley with her best-selling book and also with the course tutors from the University and its partner colleges
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