I am helping to plan and organise our INSET days for the next few years and am desperately trying to come up with ways to make them useful and interesting rather than the dull waste of valuable time (full of INSET bingo) that staff often complain about. We’re planning to have several sessions focussed on sharing excellent practice within the school so that departments can learn from each other and collaborate – we did one of these towards the end of last year and it was really well received.
The best INSET I’ve had was a day run by Paul Ginnis (Teacher’s Toolkit author). He demonstrated loads of practical lesson ideas (rather than hours of theoretical stuff) and, although my department already used a lot of his ideas, it was really interesting to see different ways of using them and it got the whole school thinking more about encouraging independent and active learning.
So, can you inspire me by telling me about your best INSET day?
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What was your best ever INSET day?
Twinkle186 · 28/08/2015 10:51
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