Concrew Training

Concrew Training's half-day workshop on how to make questioning a more effective tool within teaching, training and learning includes Socratic Questioning Techniques and much much more Socratic Questioning  Clarification Why are you saying that? Can you give me an example? Probing What else could we assume? What would happen if? Testing evidence How do you know this? How might it be refuted? Generating viewpoints What alternative ways of looking at this are there? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this? Consequences What are the implications of? How does this fit with Questions about the question What was the point of asking that question? Why do you think I asked this question? What else might I ask? read the full course overview 

Most organisations will by now have updated their data protection policies to reflect and meet the requirements of the GDPR. unfortunately the sheer size of the potential fines and penalties means no UK company or organisation can afford to take the GDPR lightly.  Data Protection can no longer be a write and forget policy or a tick box activity privacy will have to be embedded into every policy, procedure, practice or project.  Existing activities need to be reviewed against your new data protection and privacy policies and every new activity, be it policy, procedure, practice or project will need to scrutinised for potential privacy breach at every stage.  If not handled correctly this will be a huge task.   Consider for example staff use of mobile phones and the potential for data breach. Do you even know where the data on the phones is stored ?  does the phone automatically back up personal data such as email, sms, voicemails, pictures etc to the phone provider, google, m

Our new half-day CPD workshop on more effective use of questioning within teaching and training compliments our outstanding teaching courses and is designed as a 3 hour cod session that runs twice on one day. Upto 20 people can attend each session so this workshop makes a good inset CPD day for 40 staff. read the full course overview here #teaching #teachers #fe #furthereducation #schools #uked

#GDPR and #ePrivacy are hot topics in the UK and Europe but moving forward we suspect most businesses will need to Privacy Impact Assessments ( #PIA ) whenever a new policy or procedure is introduced or a new project or assignment is under taken.  A proportionate response that does not involve unnecessary form filling, box ticking, and endless consultation is going to be essential if the related burden is to be minimised Those completing PIA will need to consider both physical and informational privacy Informational privacy – the ability of a person to control, edit, manage and delete information about themselves and to decide how and to what extent such information is communicated to others. Intrusion can come in the form of collection of excessive personal information, disclosure of personal information without consent and misuse of such information.  It can include the collection of information through the surveillance or monitoring of how people act in pub

The new GDPR regulations apply from May 2018, how well prepared are you?  Do you know the answers to the following, often asked, questions?   Will the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affect small employers? What are an employer's obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to the processing of sensitive personal data? What information must employers supply to employees about the processing of their personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? What data subject access rights will employees have under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? How will the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affect the processing and retention of recruitment data by employers? Will employers be able to carry out criminal records checks under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Do employers need to amend employees' contracts to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? When can em

Concrew Training is pleased to announce a new range of Observation of Teaching Courses (#OTL) for 2018.  More details at: https://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/observation-of-teaching #fe #teaching #furthereducation #teachertraining #learning

#Ofsted have released new #inspection handbooks for #schools School Inspection Handbook short, monitoring and unannounced behaviour school inspections