Thanks very much for your contribution and positive comments.

Great to know that you found the session useful from a teacher training point of view. I often find that I learn as much about content as how to present when I attend seminars and conference sessions so it's interesting to know that it was helpful for you to focus on this aspect too.

I'm sorry about the problem downloading the handout - it's a big file as it's full of images of fruit (!) from the workshop - will try and see what can be done.

Good luck and every success with the move from teaching to training!

very helpful presentation, thanks a lot for the tips you gave us !!!!

Many thanks for all your lovely, positive comments about the workshop - so glad that you liked the tips!

Although many of them are common sense, I think we sometimes tend to overlook some of the more obvious things when we're teaching and that it helps to surface them and think about them explicitly. Even something as simple as projecting confidence in the way you use body language can be crucial when you go into a class of children who are all (sub-consciously) testing out the parameters of what is and isn't appropriate and acceptable behaviour.

When I'm working with teachers who are starting out or in early service, my advice is that if you don't feel confident and are shaking with nerves inside just act 'as if' and pretend you are! The concept of 'as if' is a very useful one in other areas too. For example, if you treat children 'as if' you expect them to respond responsibly and work as hard as they can, the chances are that they will!