Subject
In this module you’ll cover:
- the curriculum
- your mental model of the subject or phase you teach and its implications for your planning
- how to know what pupils have understood, the barriers you face in doing so and how to respond to their needs
Week 1: module overview and re-contracting
Introduces foundational elements of subject and supports teachers and mentors to set up effective ways of working.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Introduces foundational elements of subject and supports teachers and mentors to set up effective ways of working.
Week 2: planning backwards from learning goals
Focuses on the importance of subject excellence and starting with what teachers want pupils to learn.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Focuses on the importance of subject excellence and starting with what teachers want pupils to learn.
Week 3: types of knowledge
Looks at the differing nature of subjects, the importance of mental models, knowledge and identifying core knowledge within subjects.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Looks at the differing nature of subjects, the importance of mental models, knowledge and identifying core knowledge within subjects.
Week 4: gaps and misconceptions
Explores the need to identify and respond to gaps in pupil knowledge and pupil misconceptions.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Explores the need to identify and respond to gaps in pupil knowledge and pupil misconceptions.
Week 5: acquisition before application
Explores the role secure relevant knowledge can play prior to application and how to build and check for high success rates.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Explores the role secure relevant knowledge can play prior to application and how to build and check for high success rates.
Week 6: promoting deep learning
Focuses on ensuring deep, hard thinking about key ideas that develops pupil mental models and flexible knowledge.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Focuses on ensuring deep, hard thinking about key ideas that develops pupil mental models and flexible knowledge.
Week 7: developing pupils’ literacy
Explores the varying nature of literacy across and within subjects/phases, and the important role of vocabulary, comprehension and oral literacy.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Explores the varying nature of literacy across and within subjects/phases, and the important role of vocabulary, comprehension and oral literacy.
Week 8: sharing academic expectations
Examines the links between challenging academic expectations, purposeful planning and breaking down and modelling content.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Examines the links between challenging academic expectations, purposeful planning and breaking down and modelling content.
Week 9: assessing for formative purposes
Examines the link between learning goals, formative and summative assessments.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Examines the link between learning goals, formative and summative assessments.
Week 10: examining pupils’ responses
Looks at drawing inferences, identifying misconceptions and getting pupils to elaborate as part of formative assessments.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Looks at drawing inferences, identifying misconceptions and getting pupils to elaborate as part of formative assessments.
Week 11: adapting lessons to meet pupils’ needs
Explores the ways formative assessments can provide inferences to adapt teaching to meet the needs of their pupils.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Explores the ways formative assessments can provide inferences to adapt teaching to meet the needs of their pupils.
Week 12: feedback
Focuses on aspects of effective feedback so that pupils can put it into action to improve their understanding.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Focuses on aspects of effective feedback so that pupils can put it into action to improve their understanding.