Affordable, Accessible CPD Training for Teachers
Some students resist every effort to teach or support them — but there are reasons behind the resistance. This course reveals how to uncover those reasons and use practical tools to reach pupils who seem unreachable.
Thurs 2nd Oct 7pm-9pm UK Time
Drawing from psychotherapy, resilience research, and real-life experience in high-pressure schools, this course equips teachers and leaders with science-backed techniques for managing & remedying overwhelm & burnout.
Tues 7th Oct 7pm-9pm UK Time
Behind every ADHD challenge lies a set of needs desperately wanting to be met. In this web class, you’ll learn how to recognise those needs — and use simple, effective strategies to bring out the best in children with ADHD, often with remarkable results.
Thurs 16th Oct 7pm-9pm
Proven-effective strategies to keep even the most challenging students focused and on task. This course gives you practical tools to create positive learning environments and ensure student participation.
Tues 21st Oct 7pm-8pm UK Time
Grounded in Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, and Non-Violent Communication, this course shows teachers how 'magic conversations' can build trust, strengthen relationships, and create a calmer classroom.
2 x Tues Twilights TBC
3:45 - 5:45pm
Understand the deeper causes of anxiety and dysregulation in pupils — and how these factors show up as behaviour. This course explains why some pupils can’t cope — and what we can do that actually helps.
Thurs 23rd Oct 7pm-9pm UK Time
Constantly reacting to poor behaviour is exhausting — but most issues can be avoided. In this class, you’ll learn how our needs-based philosophy helps you address students’ underlying drivers. The result? Calm, respectful classrooms where problems rarely take hold.
Tues 28th Oct 7pm-9pm UK Time
When behaviour goes off track, how you respond makes all the difference. In this course, you’ll discover how a needs-based approach helps you move past punishment and quick fixes, and instead respond in ways that reduce conflict, restore calm, and support long-term change.
Thurs 30th Oct 7pm-9pm UK Time
Imagine leaving school each day with energy to spare, your workload under control, and your head clear. This course reveals how to overcome the unseen psychological barriers and beliefs that block productivity and keep teachers stuck in cycles of stress and procrastination.
Tues 4th Nov 7pm-8pm UK Time
"Excellent ideas; it’s always amazing to me how you deliver such awesome, effective ideas in such a short time. The greatness of it is that in a quick snippet of time, I can gain a new technique or procedure that helps bring order to my classroom!”
Tish Wodetzki, Primary School Teacher
"Your materials are truly amazing! Your theories and practice which underpin your teachings make so much sense - so much so, they should be bound in leather and issued to every trainee (and fully fledged) teacher who walks into a classroom!
Sumner Price, Secondary School Teacher
"Finally something concrete and applicable in real life. I’ve had enough of the people who never set their foot in a real classroom but know how everything should be done in theory. Thanks a million. As a fresh teacher, I find this invaluable.”
Jasna P, Secondary School Teacher
Hannah Lethbridge
"I just wanted to let you know that your fabulous book 'Take Control of the Noisy Class: Chaos to Calm in 15 Seconds' has ranked in RocketEd's 10 Best Books on Inclusion for School Leaders. It was chosen as one of the most useful resources we have encountered to advise schools on ways to improve behaviour management and inclusion."
Melanie Watson
"Rob, Thank you for offering this webinar. I have been a school psychologist for 21 years. Your talent for distilling evidenced-based strategies and life experience into a simple approach is rare and so appreciated."
❝Something about what you do and how you do it works."
Every, and that's every contact I've had with Rob Plevin and Needs Focused Teaching has been a boon. Blogs, live training, videos, emails even printed books have done two things - made me think I can be a better teacher and made me believe I already am one. Rob's training, his passion, his willingness to care about what we do in the classroom stuns me every time. His work has changed my life. Which is weird because I'm an NLP coach, a counsellor and a mindfulness trainer. Something about what you do and how you do it works.❞
Jo Freeman
❝I never saw 15-year-olds move so fast to come back to order."
"I never saw 15-year-olds move so fast to come back to order. repeating myself, no prodding. The application of your tips has been wonderful! The first time I explained to my students that I would count backwards from ten when I was ready for them to come back from their group work, it worked like magic. It seems like you know the practical answers to classroom needs. Thank you.❞
Erin Rhone
More than 20,000 Teacher Trainees Taught
Terry Hudson, Director, 'Teach First'
”Rob was dealing with crucial issues relating to behaviour management in some of the most challenging schools in the country. Participants were enthralled throughout and he worked wonders in increasing their confidence."
Dr Chris Botton
“This workshop is something not to be missed. Rob delivers the informed workshop with great panache, the entertainment is splendid and the essential messages will not be forgotten.”
Dr Anne Bore, Programme Director
Rob’s course is based on the value of building relationships. Rob is an inspiration and even the most experienced, effective teachers will recognise the veracity of his approach.
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