creating transformative experiences for learning disabled young people creating transformative experiences for learning disabled young people
30th July 10am – 5pm at Curve Theatre, Leicester
This one-day course is aimed at teachers, teaching assistants, support staff, SENCOs, artists and practitioners.
Course one covers the fundamentals of the Bamboozle Approach and it is therefore advised that you attend this course before attending any further courses.
We’ve all had days when you just wish the students in your class would listen, or focus, or even seem interested in what you have to offer them. These courses are each designed to do just that – enable you to engage the interest of your students and keep them interested. The Bamboozle Approach has a long track record of finding ways to enable students to do things they have not done before.
What you can expect to get out of the course:
• Practical ideas you can take away and use immediately.
• An understanding of the Bamboozle Approach and how it gained recognition from OFSTED and the National Autistic Society
• Knowing how to enable your students to focus for longer.
• The ability to create an enabled space where students learn easily without fear of judgement.
• How to use ritual to gain and maintain student interest
31st July 10am – 5pm at Curve Theatre, Leicester
This one-day course is aimed at teachers, teaching assistants, support staff, SENCOs, artists and practitioners.
This course will demonstrate to you ways that enable your children to relax. The Bamboozle Approach, which is a tried and tested methodology, recognised by the National Autistic Society and Ofsted, will give you strategies to implement in your lessons or workshops immediately. We will share with you Bamboozle’s 30 years of experience in delivering long-term culture-change projects in the autism learning environment as well as our more recent outdoor work with families. This autism-specific course covers key areas of the Bamboozle Approach which can be applied and integrated into your own practice straight away.
What you can expect to explore on this course:
• How to create an Enabled Space so that learners on the autism spectrum engage more easily.
• See a practical demonstration of how putting a group at ease enables its members to engage.
• Discover ways that exploratory play builds trust, reduces anxiety and provides child-centred opportunities for expression and learning.
• Advanced techniques for building connections with children and young people who might be described as being hard-to-reach.
• Strategies for working with behaviour that challenges us.
1st August 10am – 5pm Curve Theatre, Leicester
This one-day course is aimed at teachers, teaching assistants, support staff, SENCOs, artists and practitioners.
We will be exploring three different kinds of narrative scenario that can be tailored and adapted for different audiences.
This course will demonstrate to you ways that enable your children to become engaged in stories by using characters and building a narrative with the children closely involved. The Bamboozle Approach, which is a tried and tested methodology, recognised by the National Autistic Society and Ofsted, will give you strategies to implement in your lessons or workshops immediately.
What you can expect to explore on this course:
• An introduction to the Bamboozle Approach and how the methodology enables storytelling.
• The importance of narrative and the power it has to engage audiences.
• Immersive narratives where all participants, however they respond, can be included and valued.
• Using characters and narrative scenarios to frame activities and introduce tasks that everyone can access.
• How you can use a person in role as a character – historical or fictional – to build intrigue and engagement.
• How the facilitator can support and encourage the building of the narrative.
• Understand what the job of the person in role is, and what the job of the facilitator is.
• How you can use character and narrative to teach the curriculum.
• How you can use character and narrative to create new stories using your learners’ ideas.
• How to keep the learners at the centre of the creative process.
2nd August 10am – 5pm Curve Theatre, Leicester
This one-day course is aimed at artists and practitioners, teachers, teaching assistants, support staff, SENCOs.
We will share with you what we have learnt over the last 30 years and how you can use some of these learnings in your work. The course will include:
• The Bamboozle Approach – creating an enabled performance space
• Access – the practicalities of producing and presenting performances
• Considerations when creating shows for learning disabled audiences
• Ways of structuring a show
• Building connections with different audiences – joint exploration
• Multi-sensory strategies for performance and how they can be tailored to different audiences
• Settings, props, music and sound considerations
The course will include practical exercises, examples of Bamboozle’s 30 years of experience creating multi-sensory, interactive shows for learning disabled audiences and discussion and Q&A.
£175 for schools/organisations (subsequent course bookings will be charged at a reduced rate of £125)
£87 for freelancers (subsequent course bookings will be charged at a reduced rate of £62)
What teachers and artists have said about our training:
“The Bamboozle Approach makes it emotionally safe for even the most reluctant of learners to commit themselves. With Bamboozle, every student’s input is given value and this strategy builds individual confidence and gives the courage to contribute more. The Bamboozle approach enables children to be reached, and their talents discovered, in ways which we have seldom seen.” David Lloyd, principal of The Gateway School and Technology College
‘’A methodology that will shift the way I approach all areas of my practice, not just working with disabled children and young people but with everyone’’ – Dance Artist, Pagan Hunt
If you have any queries please get in touch with our Education and Training Project Manager natalie@bamboozletheatre.co.uk.
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