---This event forms part of the University of Essex Teachers and Advisers CPD Week---

Engage with cross-curricular technology that spans across devices and age ranges. In this full day of training, teachers will explore innovative new ways of approaching day-to-day classroom teaching and learning. Everyone will get hands on and engage with a number of applications that are accessible on a huge range of devices. This means that the training is relevant to all teachers no matter the technological background of their schools.

Programme for the day:

9.00am - Registration

9.20am - Welcome to the University of Essex

9.40am - Presenting and Assessing through Technology

Engage with and create your own interactive assessment and presentation resources for teaching and learning. Through the use of one multi-device application, educators can learn to make innovative technology that can present new learning objcetives and create dynamic assessment data on the classes understanding of any given topic.

11.00am - Tea/coffee and networking

11.15am - Digital Workflow

Engage in learning activities with a technological edge that healps children to better collaborate and consolidate their ideas. By connecting with one web-based application, an entire class and their teacher can chare work digitally back and forth whilst the app cleverly creates a learning journey for each individual child in the background. Build your own digital classroom in this session that you can take back to school no matter what your technological infrastructure looks like.

12.30pm - Lunch and campus tours

1.30pm - Revision and Quizzing

Use technology to revise and quiz your class on any given subject. During this session participants will create their own technological resources that can help children to revisit learning topics in a fun and innovative way. No matter what devices you use at school, these applications can be utilised to enhance revision and quizzing whilst simultaneously doing the marking for you.

2.35pm - Tea/coffee break

2.40pm - Collaborative Creativity

Explore how technology can expand creativity and offer more ways for children to share their ideas. Through the use of a number of easy to use applications, participants will get hands on to produce imagery, videos and music that can be attached to any number of enriching educational endeavours. We will also look at the myriad of ways that technology can help children and teachers to safely share their creations with each other.

About Nick Acton

Nick Acton is part of JTRS's training team and is responsible for delivering bespoke CPD for a variety of teaching professionals. Nick is currently a classroom teacher as well as being a trainer and so he is able to bring his experience and up-to-date examples of innovative technological pedagogy to training sessions. Ultimately the areas of technological embedment that Nick is able to explore with a group of teachers is not simply endorsed by JTRS, but by the pupils that benefit from it daily.

About JTRS

JTRS are a Technology Solution Expert for Education specialising in three main areas, Apple, Google and LEGO Education. We provide an entirely bespoke service for any kind of educational organisation, that enables schools to purchase, install and utilise innovative devices within their classrooms. No matter the expectation, we can help teachers and pupils alike to get the most out of their chosen technology through financial, technical and ongoing curriculum training support.