317 Educators providing Learning courses in Leeds

toe by toe

Keda spent almost all of her teaching career at one school - Sandal Road Primary School in Baildon, UK. She also almost exclusively taught just one age group, 6-7 year-olds; the age that most children pick up their reading skills. This was to become Keda’s great passion - the teaching of reading. Initially, she was baffled as to why a significant proportion of the children in her classes struggled to pick up basic reading skills. To Keda, they were just as bright as the other children but - for them - reading remained a mysteriously difficult skill. Keda always had a keen and inquisitive mind and this question of why some children had difficulties in learning to read nagged at her. She thought that she had somehow failed these students, so she made an offer to their parents. She asked their permission to teach their children at her home - without charge - at the end of the school day. As a result of this offer, Keda’s house was soon overflowing with struggling readers. Keda even designed an extension to her house to include a custom-built classroom and persuaded her doting husband Albert to build it. For the next 30 years, Keda’s house - literally, just a stone’s throw away from the school where she worked - was full of children. Between 4-5pm every school day she looked for ways to improve their reading skills. Keda's All-Consuming Passion At the time Keda began her research into children’s reading problems, few people had even heard of the term ‘dyslexia’. Keda became fascinated by the condition and her private research soon became an all-consuming obsession. She divided the children into two groups. A control group where conventional methods were used, and her ‘guinea pigs’, where Keda tried anything and everything to see what would work. This painstaking process of trial and error became the genesis of what later came to be known as Toe By Toe. Keda had no idea what was happening in the psychology departments of universities. She simply looked at the reading process and pared it down to the bare essentials necessary to crack the code of this ‘reading thing’. This is also why Toe By Toe is so refreshingly free of jargon and psychological gobbledygook. It certainly wasn’t a ‘quick fix’ process. Only after decades of this meticulous approach did Toe By Toe eventually become the fully functioning system we have now. Keda named the system ‘Toe By Toe’ after a grateful parent commented that she could see how it worked: “Progress by tiny steps – almost one toe at a time…”

kodo education ltd

At Kodo we have developed our own bespoke technologies enabling us to publish our educational resources to organisations around the world. We also white-label our technologies to thought-leaders and practitioners from all sectors. They then use our online training toolkits to create their own online courses, training and e-learning experiences. We have clients and partners in Europe, the Middle East, China, Africa and the USA.

deaf muslims

Deaf Muslim UK (DMUK) is the first Deaf Muslim organisation in the world that is founded and governed by Deaf people to establish and enhance the lives of Deaf Muslims since 1994. Our team is deeply committed to supporting and encouraging the learning and development of Deaf people from diverse backgrounds through education and empowerment. Our Mission is "To educate, empower and enable Deaf people to reach their full potential"

the textiles and apparel elearning centre

yorkshire dyslexia

Vicky Ringer is a Specialist Dyslexia Teacher and an Assessor of children with Specific Learning Difficulties. She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties. She is a member of the British Dyslexia Assocation and holds a practising certificate. Vicky has 12 years experience of teaching both mainstream and special educational needs. She decided to specialise in dyslexia after teaching lots of children within the mainstream classroom who displayed good understanding verbally but struggled to write down their ideas, found it difficult to remember ideas and were often disorganised. She saw how having a diagnosis of dyslexia and being taught in a dyslexia friendly way, could raise a child’s self-esteem and self-belief that they can achieve in the world. Vicky understands how difficult school can be for dyslexic students and is committed to helping them realise their potential through having a dyslexia assessment and through recommending appropriate strategies of intervention. She understands the concern and frustration parents often feel if their child is underachieving and works carefully to assess and recognise the child’s difficulties.

leading children

You can now pay by card or via PayPal at check out. Please send any purchase orders and inquiries to info@leadingchildren.com Please note; in the case of purchase orders, payment may be required in order for goods to be released. Thank you for choosing to buy from Leading Children Imagine Ltd, we appreciate your custom. TRAINING WELCOME Welcome to Leading Children Ltd, our training company that has been operating for over 12 years. The ethos of our company is a belief in a child’s right to take a leadership role in their learning. The name ‘Leading Children’ was selected because of its dual meaning that as practitioners we lead children, but more… CONSULTANCY WELCOME Welcome to Leading Children Ltd, our training company that has been operating for over 12 years. The ethos of our company is a belief in a child’s right to take a leadership role in their learning. The name ‘Leading Children’ was selected because of its dual meaning that as practitioners we lead children, but more…

chambers consulting training and publishing

The managing partner, Steven Chambers, has over 30 years strategic and operational experience as a manager and Business Consultant. He was one of the first managers in Northern Ireland to receive the daunting accreditation of Chartered Manager in 2005. This was achieved through a demanding process of independent feedback on his performance. In 2000, he was awarded the BT National Investors in People Key Champion Award for the quality of his advisory services and, in 2001, he then steered a public body of 4000+ people to Cabinet Office Beacon status, one of only twenty such bodies across the UK. Amongst his professional qualifications, he is a Fellow of both the Chartered Management Institute and Institute of Leadership & Management, Member of the Institute of Consultants and Institute of Learning, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and a trained, PRINCE2, project manager. He is approved to deliver adult training at a Further Education level across his specialist services and act as an Assessor (A1). Steven has over 25 years operational history in security risk management and has attended the highly acclaimed Security Risk Management course at Cranfield University. These professional qualifications are backed by lengthy experience in delivering operational and resource management, corporate and emergency planning, employment practice, performance management, learning/development and security risk management. He has a track record of designing and implementing multi-million pound efficiency programmes in the public sector and providing innovative business development solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He works with the Department for Employment and Learning to improve the business performance and the Leadership & Management skills of Owners, Directors and managers of SMEs.

the ben manning music foundation

Bens Music Foundation has been committed to providing access to music education for kids in our community since 2011. The community fund we award is from £300 to £1000 depending on the circumstances and supports what matters in our community when it comes to music arts. Our schools music project supports covering the cost of learning to play an instrument at school from families who cannot access the free schools program and struggle to financially cover the cost.

co-op academy leeds

We’re very proud of our strong relationships here at Leeds. Students are supported by well-qualified and passionate staff. We promote and reward great behaviour through our House system and our Co-op values. The House system creates a family ethos with houses including students of different ages, experiences and talents. It allows us to recognise, celebrate and reward every young person in our learning community. The House system also promotes resilience and confidence through our Co-op values.

developing success

Sue and Rebecca, the owner-directors of the company, first worked together in 1993 in various HR and learning and development roles for Northern Foods plc. They became job-share partners in 1999 while both were managing the demands of work and new family commitments – between them they have seven sons – and they have worked together on various projects ever since. Sue founded Developing Success Ltd in 2006, and Rebecca joined her in the business in 2018.