Leeds SCITT Newsletter
Issue 6 Spring 2016
Welcome to the Leeds SCITT Newsletter
Welcome to the Leeds SCITT Newsletter. Our aim is to share good practice across our Partnership, keeping all interested parties up to speed with key information and share tips on how to become outstanding trainee teachers. This is your newsletter, so please feel free to email and share your experiences of how you or your colleagues have used innovative strategies/resources which have contributed to pupils making excellent progress.
Please remember to scroll down for tips and ideas on how to evidence TS5
Stage 3 Priority – Becoming an Outstanding Trainee Teacher
Precise Target Setting
Pupil Progress
Oustanding Trainee Teacher
Helpful reminders and points to consider!
This week…
- Continue to set focused targets during your mentoring meetings to support you in addressing key areas. You could use the language of the Teachers' Standards as outlined in the placement report (also located in the Stage 3 Manual pages 65 -80) to aid you and your SBT in the writing and evidencing of these targets. Remember it is important to share these targets with all of the host teachers in the department (a good idea is to write this down on the top of the lesson observation sheet you give to the observer) to ensure lesson observation feedback is focused and allows you to evidence the targets you and your SBT have set.
- Continue to email your SEF to your SBT 24hrs prior to your mentor meeting and cc your Link Tutor in too.
- Discuss with your mentor ideas that you would like to work on for your enrichment period. If you need any help with this please feel free to contact SCITT for further advice. Remember this time is given to you to be able to work on those developmental areas that will aim to be of support to you in your NQT year.
- Discuss with you host teachers, strategies to support all learners in the classroom. Try out a new strategy and evaluate its impact in supporting pupil progress. Think about how you could improve its effectiveness in the future. Continue to work with your TA, SENCO and host teachers to ensure all pupils are included in their learning.
- Try a new questioning technique.
Evidencing the Teachers' Standards
Each week we will focus on one of the Teachers’ Standards, to look at ways on how this specific 'Standard' could be evidenced in supporting you in becoming outstanding in this area. This week we will take a look at TS5 -Adapt Teaching to Respond to the Needs of All Learners.
How can we evidence TS5?
For the SEB, the TS5 Standard can be evidenced in the TS5 Report, Lesson Observations relating to the trainee's work with pupils' particular needs, Lesson Plans & Lesson Evaluations relating to two or three Key Stages.
Question time! How can we evidence questioning for TS5?
The Socratic Process - 6 Steps of Questioning
Stage 1 Materials - Plan and teach well structured lessons
Here are some of the resources used during the Subject Study sessions during Stage1. These may be of help:
Core Differentiation PowerPoint
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vrvw0ruvb2opclk/SA5%20Differentiation%20PPT.pdf?dl=0
Core Session Booklet
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dn2shtd2ptwtj6l/SA5%20session%20booklet%20for%20trainees_V2.pdf?dl=0
Whole Class Teaching Strategies
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p45m85an42bzfzq/Whole_class_teaching_strats.doc?dl=0
Shoebox Shopping List
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zckzymczvx0m7n5/shoe%20box%20shopping%20list.docx?dl=0
Managing the Learning Environment
Differentiation - Plenaries
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t91m7xidbkbejsn/Differentiating_plenaries.pdf?dl=0
Classroom Environment article
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o3k5stkw0luyuef/classroom%20environment%20article.pdf?dl=0
Classroom Set up prompt sheet
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jyyb9h3ih066po4/classroom%20setup%20prompt%20sheet.docx?dl=0
Classroom Routine information sheet
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jd5j9ubgsx85edh/classroom%20routine%20info%20sheet.docx?dl=0
How to guide for Padlet
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8izcscmk17fifio/%27How%20to%27%20guide%20for%20Padlet%20original.pptx?dl=0
How to guide for Aurasma
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bllqmsblknq3lo3/%27How%20to%27%20guide%20for%20Aurasma.pptx?dl=0
What will the classroom of the future look like to ensure all learners are included?
How different is your classroom setting from this?
Flipped Classroom
Teacher's Role: Guide on the Side!
Teacher shares lectures outside of class for Pupils to watch and complete at home.
Flipped Classroom
Flipped Classroom
Teaching and learning ideas! - A few ideas to help you and your pupils in the classroom.
Some more ideas in support of differentiating so that all learners feel included in their learning:
BBC Active - includes an extensive range of interactive resources based on BBC content, which support teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools, adult language learning and English language learning. In 2005 a joint venture was formed with Pearson to further develop these resources.
http://www.bbcactive.com/BBCActiveIdeasandResources/MethodsofDifferentiationintheClassroom.aspx
Poster challenge
Different ways to include and challenge learners
Differenitation Deviser
An interactive PowerPoint with some differentiation ideas.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz14u5qxinmjgde/Differentiation%20Deviser.pptx?dl=0
Is Homework Deliberate Practice?
What's the homework for? This may be of interest to you.
http://firesinthemind.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/FiresInTheMindCh8onHomework.pdf
How can we change the focus of how we set homework?
And Finally...Teaching and Body Language!
Over to you!
Leeds SCITT hope you have found this newsletter helpful. If you would like to send your suggestions, ideas, videos, sharing of good practice to include in the next newsletter please let me know. There are still a limited number of amazon vouchers available for your contributions, so please email your ideas!
Have a great week and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sinead