Sue Palmer
 
Two new interactive full-day presentations
by Sue Palmer for the 2008-9 school year:

Sue Palmer has been well-known to primary teachers for over two decades for her books, articles and training courses on the teaching of literacy skills, especially grammar and writing. In recent years, she has also researched the effects of modern life on child development, and her best-selling book
Toxic Childhood has helped spark a national debate on the nature of contemporary childhood.

To enquire about Sue’s availability please email: enquiries@toxicchildhood.co.uk

 


Detoxing Childhood

how schools, parents and communities can work togetherto promote children’s well-being and learning

It takes a village to raise a child, and the central point in 21st century children’s ‘villages’ is their school. This course looks at how schools can best support parents, and the wider community in providing the sort of environment that promotes healthy development – physical, social, emotional and linguistic – for every child.

Sue’s working principle is that parents, not institutions, have ultimate responsibility for their children’s well-being, but that schools have a pivotal role to play in informing and empowering parents to take productive action within their homes and ‘villages’.
 


21st Century Boys

language, learning and literacy

For the last two years, Sue has looked specifically at how ‘toxic childhood syndrome’ can affect boys: her book 21st Century Boys will be published in 2009. She has brought these research findings together with her literacy expertise to create a day’s training course focusing on the developmental needs of boys from birth to 12 and their impact on literacy acquisition and learning across the curriculum.

For successful personalisation of learning, it is vital to take these developmental needs into account. This course provides primary teachers and managers with insights and practical starting points for
- developing boys’ language and listening skills
- engaging boys in first-hand, active learning
- providing ‘boy-friendly’ literacy teaching
- tackling disaffection before it begins.
The overall aim of the course is to ‘detoxify’ boys’ learning, in the classroom, the school and the wider community.