Barry is available for a range of services. These include:

• keynote presentations at conferences or training days
• workshop sessions with staff and/or students in all key stages
• in-service training sessions for schools and LAs
• governor training/awareness
• presentations to parents

The content of presentations and workshops usually consists of one or a combination of the following themes:

• learning and teaching
• inclusive approaches to gifted and talented education
• fostering intrinsic motivation to learn and to take intellectual risks
• thinking, and meta-thinking
• creativity, enrichment and extension
• Philosophy for Children/Communities (P4C)
• Dilemma-Based Learning (DBL)

Examples of previous courses, presentations and workshop sessions:

• Whole-day CPD INSET: “Constructing Challenge” (Kingsmead School, Somerset), 2009
• Keynote: “PRIMA – Learning States for the 21st century” (Millom Federation of Schools T&L Conference, 2008)
• Keynote: “Growing Gifts & Talents” (NAGC Big Family Weekend, 2009)
• Whole-day CPD INSET: “Promoting Intrinsic motivation – The key to a skills-based curriculum” (St Andrew’s CE Primary School, Soham, 2008)
• Whole-day CPD INSET: “Leading Learning – maximising the potential of pupils and staff” (Medway Primary Heads’ Residential Conference, 2009)
• Keynote: “Developing Independent & Inter-Dependent Learners” (Eastern Region Gifted & Talented Partnership, 4th Regional Conference, 2009)
• Whole-day CPD INSET: “G&T Education in the 21st Century” (IAPS Directors of Studies Conference, 2008)
• Keynote: “Four Funerals and a Wedding: psychology’s legacy to gifted and talented education” (Doncaster, 2005)
• Whole-day CPD INSET: “Constructively Speaking: Creativity, enquiry and collaboration in the classroom” (Chalfonts Community College, 2006)
• “An Audience with Barry Hymer” (NACE afternoon audience series, London 2006, Birmingham & Bristol, 2007)
• Whole-day CPD INSET: “Gifts, Talents & Inclusion: the power of personalised enquiry” (Torbay, 2006)
• Keynote: “Gifts and talents in the 21st century” (NAGTY Primary Launch, Warwick and Manchester, 2004)
• Whole staff CPD INSET: “Building Gifts and Talents” (Altrincham Girls’ Grammar School, 2007)
• Workshop: “Wise thinking, wise behaviour: towards the development of wise learning communities” (10th International Conference on Thinking, Harrogate, 2002)
• Whole-staff one-day CPD INSET: “Constructing Learning: Motivated learning in the 21st century classroom” (Gosforth High School, 2006)
• Whole-staff SAPERE-accredited Level 1 Training in Philosophy for Children (Grafton Primary School, London, 2006)
• One-day whole-staff introduction to P4C (Ladywood School, Barnsley, 2007)
• Whole-staff one-day training in Outstanding Lessons, Manningtree High School, Essex, 2007)

Rates: These vary, dependent on the nature and duration of the input required. Please contact Barry directly (see Contact section on this site) to discuss your requirements.