Register for Pupillage Training courses and materials

Pupillage Training- Courses and Materials is an in-depth series of classes and materials, which are matched to the Professional Statement of Competences, and should help pupils develop the competences they need to go on to become a practising barrister. They form part of a bank of materials that pupil supervisors can give to their pupils, at their direction. With approximately 150 lessons, in a mixture of structured video presentations, text resources and exercises, these courses and materials should help pupils develop the skills they need to be a practising barrister.  The topics covered include:

1. Developing your research and business development skills.
2. Building a trauma informed practice.
3. Critical thinking including being able to identify logical fallacies.
4. Hints and tips regarding key stages of a legal argument plus the importance of ethics to persuasive advocacy.
5. General principles of Ethics, including training for pupils on bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the Bar, what that might involve, and what they can do if they or someone they know is in that situation. 
6. Witness handling including a large section on cross-examination, which includes loads of historical examples and lessons from history regarding cross examination. Pupils can draft and act out famous cross-examinations, in order to help them develop their skills in this difficult area.
7. The elements of an argument and how to evaluate the arguments of others (argumentation) which includes a course textbook. 
8. Introduction to legal rhetoric or the art of persuasion.

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Our guarantee. This course is unique and has been developed and is delivered by a highly experienced university lecturer with over 20 years experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. If after 14 days to evaluate the content you feel the course is not going to meet your needs, we will refund your course fee in full.

Register for the Pupil Supervisor Package

The pupil supervisor package includes:

1.A short course on how to teach effectively, plus

2. A bank of approximately 150 lessons, including videos, a course textbook, articles, exercises, role plays and case studies, which focus on the following topics. These resources are matched to the requirements of the Professional Statement of Competences and are designed to be inclusive, and suitable for pupils with a wide range of disabilities, conditions and needs. The topics covered by the bank of resources, which you are welcome to give your pupils, include:

1. Developing your research and business development skills.
2.  Building a trauma informed practice
3. Critical thinking including being able to identify logical fallacies.
4. Hints and tips regarding key stages of a legal argument plus the importance of        ethics to persuasive advocacy.
5. General principles of Ethics, including training for pupils on bullying,            harassment  and sexual harassment at the Bar, what that might involve, and what they can do if they or someone they know is in that situation. (as per recommendation 11 of the Harman Review)
6. Witness handling including a large section on cross-examination, which includes loads of historical examples and lessons from history regarding cross examination.  
7. The elements of an argument and how to evaluate the arguments of others (argumentation) which includes a course textbook.
8. Introduction to classical legal rhetoric or the art of persuasion.

The short teaching course is aimed at Pupil Supervisors , and provides an introduction to the core aspects of teaching, including how to best manage the needs of their pupils during pupillage. The materials are available for a year on demand once you buy the subscription.

The teaching course covers:

• An introduction to teaching
• Creating a positive learning environment
• Identifying your pupils initial needs and learning styles
• Hidden disabilities
• Reasonable adjustments
• How to give constructive feedback
• Planning your teaching - how you can use the Pupillage Training courses and materials available on the site.

This course aims to teach you how to become a good teacher. Teaching can be fantastically rewarding but it can be quite intimidating when you are just starting out, so the aim of the course is to try and get you in good habits from the start.

As part of this course subscription, supervisors also have full access to all the course content available to registered pupils in order to supervise their activities and direct them to the lessons they wish them to focus on.

The aim was to create a bank of resources that pupil supervisors could fall back on if they got called away unexpectedly and needed to give their pupils work to get on with in the meantime, or if they wanted their pupils to cover some or all of the materials contained on the site. There are approximately 150 lessons available that you can allocate, use and direct your pupils towards, so you should never be in a position where you have nothing to give your pupils.

These resources should benefit your pupils, but they are also there to help and support pupil supervisors who may be new to teaching and who may have limited access to other teaching aids, courses and materials. These courses and materials are teaching aids that have been created to help pupil supervisors effectively support their pupils, whilst they are getting to grips with teaching.

So, for a £1 a day, pupil supervisors can learn how to become a good teacher and will also have access to a large bank of resources that they can give their pupils during pupillage.

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Our guarantee. This course is unique and has been developed and is delivered by a highly experienced university lecturer with over 20 years experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. If after 14 days to evaluate the content you feel the course is not going to meet your needs, we will refund your course fee in full.