National Seminars
‘Purposefully eradicating illiteracy through knowledge, rigour and accountability’
WordPower Express provides school leaders and practitioners with the critical knowledge to create highly skilled, word hungry, confident readers, writers and communicators; to instantly advance the vocabulary and essential skill set of every learner.
Through the provision of a non-linear, highly stimulating, cognitive approach, what used to take years to achieve can now be successfully taught and independently applied across the curriculum - in weeks, even days.
Who should attend?
Every Head Teacher, manager, lecturer, teacher and mentor intent on advancing and securing language and literacy acquisition; working within every sector of education or associated provision.
Course content includes:
- Only 21% of children in Foundation can write their name correctly. On average 38,700 students enter secondary school unable to access or engage with the curriculum. 1:5 adults cannot use the Yellow Pages. Where and why are we going wrong?
- Identifying the 4 Key Concepts that facilitate reading and writing competency; clarifying practice that inhibits critical skills from being acquired / secured.
- Stimulating high intellectual challenge and cognitive engagement; the urgent need to expand knowledge base, to secure knowledge transfer and facilitate knowledge capture.
- Increasing capacity and aptitude for learning - driving the application of high level communication skills across the curriculum and across the community; a framework for strategic implementation
- WPE 5 -10 day decisive intervention model: robust and cost effective in house coaching that secures expertise for staff, demonstrates instant, significant and lasting improvement for students and generates proactive, purposeful engagement with parents
- Vision, framework, rigour and reward - introducing unique resources that 'raise the bar' for every student and every teacher; every lesson, every day.
Tailored seminars, workshops and training can be arranged for schools, centres, clusters, cohorts, parents, business and community groups.