Calling all new teachers of the deaf!
An inaugural FREE conference for all unqualified and newly qualified teachers of the deaf
With funding from the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA)
Just starting off as a teacher of the deaf?
Just started your training course?
Just finished and thinking what next?
Then this conference is for you!
Enhancing learning through quality provision: Hitting the ground running
Monday 1st November 2010
Arlington Arts Centre, Snelsmore Common, Newbury
A TDA supported conference for all new teachers of the deaf
Key note speakers:
Connie Mayer, Associate Professor, York University, Toronto
Brian Lamb OBE, Executive Director of Advocacy and Policy, RNID
Workshops and key note sessions include:
• Effective support for literacy
• Promoting effective listening, attending and thinking skills
through story re-tell
• Music and deaf children
• Top tips for those new to peripatetic work
• Consolidating your audiology skills and understandings: 1 and 2
• Manufacturer updates
• Working in partnership with families
• Stakeholder forum
• Advocating for the resources and identifying what is needed
• Critical self review
NB This conference is free for all newly qualified (completed a training course in 2008 or later) or
unqualified teachers of the deaf in the United Kingdom. Places are allocated on a first come basis.
