Training Resources
We have a mix of resources to help you to deliver consistent results across your whole team.
Online Training Suite
Mandatory training for new AAL teachers: We have built a suite of short videos to help you build your understanding of how to get the best results with All Aboard Phonics, whatever your past experience of phonics teaching. Each one has a self-assessment quiz to see if you have absorbed the contents of the video:
CPD Personal Training
We are running two training programmes to take individual teachers to a new level of expertise in literacy and phonics.
The training normally costs £250 per attendee but we are offering the courses for free to schools who join All Aboard in 2022 and 2023.
All attendees will receive a certificate.
All Aboard Classroom Implementation
This is a 3-week course to talk through:
- The core techniques to use in a phonics lesson.
- The key tools you have in All Aboard Phonics.
- The basics for intervention work.
The course starts at 3pm on Wednesday 7th June. Each session will run every Wednesday for one hour on Zoom.
All Aboard Deep Dive
This 4-week course presumes you understand how to deliver a good All Aboard Phonics lesson. In the deep dive we will build up:
- More of an understanding of the context of phonics and why phonics works best.
- How reading the right way works in the brain.
- The nine ways that reading can potentially go wrong.
- How to spot those patterns.
- The intervention techniques you can use to fix each of those issues.
The course starts at 4pm on Thursday 8th June. Each session will run every Wednesday for one hour on Zoom.
Bespoke Training
If you would like to discuss bespoke training options, just get in touch. We can provide short, specialist slots over Zoom, or a whole day of in-person training.
1 full day in-person training: £570 + VAT
1 hour webinar training: £175 + VAT
Please contact us to discuss your requirements and make a booking.
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Meet Your Lead Trainers
David Morgan
David Morgan is the founder and lead educationalist of All Aboard Learning. His research focus has been literacy partly because he himself struggled to learn to read. David’s first degree was in mechanical engineering. He also has a Master’s degree in Education. David helped establish the Shannon Trust, a prison literacy charity, before setting up DM Education. He has over 20 years of experience working with literacy for children, youths and adults.
Katie Selwood
Katie has a BA (hons) in Primary Education from the University of Brighton and started her career teaching Key Stage 1 in Oxfordshire, where she led the phonics teaching programme throughout the school. She has worked with all age groups, from nursery to Year 6 in a number of schools in the UK. With a passion for improving literacy, she is dedicated to supporting both parents and teachers to improve outcomes for children with reading difficulties. In more recent years she has been working as a Literacy Advisor at David Morgan Education, delivering training to schools and supporting parents of children with reading difficulties.
All Aboard Training Testimonials
"Thank you to all three of you for coming all that way with so many fantastic resources. The training was superb and staff are really buzzing, including those that are often harder to convince. I can’t wait to get going!"
Pennine View School
"The training is really good, I've been teaching phonics for years and I'm still learning something. I like that it was backed with research. Thank you!"
St Frideswide Primary School
"The training is really good, I've been teaching phonics for years and I'm still learning something. I like that it was backed with research. Thank you!"
St Frideswide Primary School
"It has really helped me to analyse what exactly is going on when a child is struggling. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this. It has given me lots to take away and a focus for reviewing my practice."
Ash C of E Primary School
"I really enjoyed the course and am looking forward to starting to use some of the techniques discussed."
Mayesbrook Park School