The focus of this active experiential day will be on giving and receiving meaningful learner feedback and using it to support teaching, learning and assessment activities. Areas covered will include:

• Learner feedback - purpose, approaches, benefits, challenges, perceptions, enablers and ongoing improvement
• Feedback activities, games, tips and tools

This professional development day will support goal 2 of the Further Education and Training Professional Development Strategy 2017-2019 in the strategic priority areas: Working with and supporting FET learners and Quality Assurance.

The target audience for this professional development day is: FET teachers, trainers and staff working in coordination and quality assurance roles.

Facilitator: FESS

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows we can offer your booked place to another person.

The focus of this active experiential day will be on giving and receiving meaningful learner feedback and using it to support teaching, learning and assessment activities. Areas covered will include:

• Learner feedback - purpose, approaches, benefits, challenges, perceptions, enablers and ongoing improvement
• Feedback activities, games, tips and tools

This professional development day will support goal 2 of the Further Education and Training Professional Development Strategy 2017-2019 in the strategic priority areas: Working with and supporting FET learners and Quality Assurance.

The target audience for this professional development day is: FET teachers, trainers and staff working in coordination and quality assurance roles.

Facilitator: FESS

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows we can offer your booked place to another person.

The purpose of this workshop is four-fold. It offers a number of opportunities for FET Teachers, Tutors, Trainers and Co-ordinators who are working with learners from diverse cultural backgrounds to:

• Explore and reflect on how you have been shaped by your own culture, and how others are shaped by theirs
• Learn about, become familiar with, and explore some of the thinking and principles behind an approach to intercultural work
• Experience exercises and processes you might use with others
• Consider ways in which you might use these resources and insights in your context

This event will take the form of a highly participative, experiential, hands-on workshop. In order to take account of people’s different experience of learning, and diversity of learning styles, a variety of methods and resources will be used.

Target Audience: The target audience for this workshop is FET Teachers, Tutors, Trainers, Co-ordinators

Facilitator: The day will be hosted by FESS and facilitated by Partners, Training for Transformation

Please note: Pre booking is essential. Please do not book onto this event unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows we can offer your booked place to another person.

The purpose of this two-part online workshop is four-fold. It will offer a number of opportunities:

• To explore and reflect on how you have been shaped by your own culture, and how others are shaped by theirs
• To learn about, become familiar with, and explore some of the thinking and principles behind an approach to intercultural work
• To experience exercises and processes you might use with others
• To consider ways in which you might use these resources and insights in your context

The two-part workshop will be as participative and experiential as possible through the virtual medium of Zoom. In order to take account of people’s different experience of learning, and diversity of learning styles, the facilitators will use a variety of methods and resources. You will get the most out of the experience if you have access to a computer or a laptop for the duration of the Zoom sessions.

The target audience for this event is: FET Staff including teachers, tutors, trainers, co-ordinators, managers. Participants must log in to both sessions. 

Facilitation: This event will be hosted by FESS and facilitated by Jacqui Gage and Zoryana Pshyk, Partners Training for Transformation.

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows we can offer your booked place to another person.

This online interactive session will explore a range of barriers and enablers to participation in FET for learners from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and will provide an overview of key concepts related to learning through a second language which are relevant to the FET practitioner.

This session will:

• Explore barriers and enablers to participation
• Provide an overview of culturally relevant/sustaining pedagogies and explore their application in the FET context
• Provide an overview of cognitive academic linguistic proficiency (CALP) and its significance for teaching and learning across FET
• Explore practical approaches to the development of learners’ cognitive academic linguistic proficiency in FET
• Provide participants with opportunities to share practice

The target audience for this event is: FET Practitioners including teachers, tutors, trainers and instructors. This session may also be of interest to centre managers, programme co-ordinators and curriculum/programme designers.

Facilitation: Lorraine Downey, FET Development Officer, CDETB.

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows, we can offer your booked place to another person.

Jigsaw is a youth mental health charity which offers a range of mental health supports and services to both young people (aged 12-25 years) and those around them in the settings where they live, learn, work and play.

The Youth Mental Health Promotion team for FET and Higher Education is a new work stream within the Youth Mental Health Promotion department at Jigsaw. The primary aim of this team is to increase the mental health knowledge, skills, and resources of young people, and those around them across FET and higher education settings.

The following are the aims for this online PD event:

• Provide an introduction to Jigsaw & the work of their dedicated Youth Mental Health Promotion team for FET settings (including FE Colleges, Training Centres, Youthreach Centres, and other centres and learning settings where FET learners attend and participate)
• Explore the role of FET settings in supporting & promoting youth mental health
• Introduce ways FET staff may be able to support and promote youth mental health as part of a whole-centre approach to mental health and wellbeing
• Facilitate a discussion on potential ways Jigsaw may be able to further contribute to supporting and promoting youth mental health and wellbeing in FET settings

Please note: this will be an interactive session and participants will be asked to work in breakout rooms during the session in order to share ideas and expertise.

The target audience for this event is: FET staff including management, teachers, tutors, trainers, programme coordinators, guidance counsellors, learning support staff and wellbeing officers. Please note: Jigsaw's remit is in the area of youth mental health specifically (young people aged 12-25). However, it is anticipated that this session will be of benefit to all FET providers, as learning in this area can be applied and of benefit to those working with all learners, regardless of age.

Facilitation: This event will be facilitated by Jigsaw’s FET & Higher education team within the Youth Mental Health Promotion department.

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows, we can offer your booked place to another person.

This online interactive session will explore the role of vocabulary in language and literacy development and showcase a range of approaches, activities and tools that FET practitioners can use for teaching and assessment purposes when working with learners from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This session will:

• Explore the role of vocabulary in developing literacy skills across the curriculum
• Explore practical approaches to the development of FET learners’ vocabulary in vocational subjects
• Showcase resources and TEL tools to support vocabulary development
• Provide participants with opportunities to share practice

The target audience for this event is: FET Practitioners including teachers, tutors, trainers and instructors.

Facilitation: Lorraine Downey, FET Development Officer, CDETB.

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows, we can offer your booked place to another person.

This online interactive session explores practical approaches to support bilingual FET learners to become effective readers.

This session will:

• Provide an overview of key concepts underpinning reading through a second/other language
• Explore different models of reading (top-down, bottom-up and interactive)
• Explore practical approaches to support learners when reading vocational material in a second language
• Provide participants with opportunities to share practice

The target audience for this event is: FET Practitioners including teachers, tutors, trainers and instructors.

Facilitation: Lorraine Downey, FET Development Officer, CDETB.

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows, we can offer your booked place to another person.

Working in the Further Education sector presents teachers/tutors/instructors with a broad range of challenges. Learners present with broad levels of motivation and a range of social, emotional and behavioural issues. These add to the complexity of the classroom context in which FE teachers practice. This session will offer practical strategies to help equip teachers to respond to the behaviours encountered daily. It will also give teachers an opportunity to share and learn from each other.

The target audience for this session is: FET staff including management, teachers, tutors, trainers, programme coordinators, guidance counsellors, learning support staff and wellbeing officers.

Facilitation: Harry Freeman currently works as an independent education consultant. From 2002 – 2015 he worked with the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST), where his primary role was that of national advisor to the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme. Harry has delivered CPD to school leaders and teachers in over 450 post primary schools and FET centres across Ireland. The numerous workshops he has facilitated include: Middle Leadership, Positive Behaviour Management and Active Learning Methodologies. He was also strand leader of the Master in Education degree course in Positive Behaviour Management in Trinity College Dublin from 2009 to 2022. Previously, Harry taught Mathematics and Information Technology in Marino College, Dublin 3. His website can be accessed at www.harryfreeman.ie

Please note: Pre-booking is essential. Please do not book onto this session unless you are sure that you will attend / have approval to attend (if required). If an emergency arises, please inform us ASAP (cpdcancellations@fess.ie) as we operate a waiting list system and if time allows, we can offer your booked place to another person.