Training & consultancy

For all enquiries about bespoke training, consultancy and speaking, please contact me here, or at jamesfjdurran@gmail.com.

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I am a very experienced trainer and adviser, providing both face-to-face and online training and consultancy for groups of all sizes, including whole staff CPD days. I have also delivered conference workshops and key-note talks, in the UK and abroad.

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Recent training: selected examples of CPD days, twilights, on-line courses and workshops

Primary reading & writing

Purposeful reading: building fluency and developing comprehension through whole-class reading, in Key Stages 1 and 2 Whole day of training, for teachers from across an academy trust

Purposeful writing: reading as writers and writing as readers, in Key Stages 1 and 2 Whole day of training, for teachers from across an academy trust

Reframing success criteria Online twilight training for a primary school staff

Improving writing: effective uses of editing and drafting Twilight training for a whole primary school staff

Conversations with texts: planning for whole-class reading one-hour training session for primary literacy leads from across an academy trust

The importance of real reading: some principles for reading with children Two-hour training session for primary teachers from across an academy trust

Drama for reading and writing A day’s training for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers

Developing reading and writing through work with short films in the classroom Twilight training for primary teachers

Bringing stories to life: stop-motion animation in the classroom A day’s practical training for staff in a primary school

Secondary disciplinary literacy & oracy

Adaptive teaching

Scaffolding & feedback loops Training for a secondary school’s teaching staff

Questioning for challenge A twilight training session for a secondary school staff

Successful mixed-attainment teaching Training for a secondary English department

Key learning questions: framing learning for challenge Training for a secondary school staff

Adaptive teaching A series of five online sessions for adult education tutors

Secondary English

Successful mixed-attainment teaching Twilight training for a secondary English department

Powerful grammar at Key Stage 3 A morning’s training for secondary English teachers

Teaching English as a non-specialist: the essentials Two days of training for non-specialists teaching English at Key Stage 3

Drama for reading and writing A day’s training for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 teachers

Creative writing in galleries A day’s training for primary and secondary teachers on approaches to creative writing in galleries and other environments outside of the classroom

Literature through film A morning for English PGCE students

19th Century novels on film Training for secondary English teachers on using film adaptations to support literary study

Shakespeare through film A webinar for the English and Media Centre

For Becky Durran’s coaching, please visit www.beckydurrancoaching.co.uk, including for ADHD coaching for young people.