Leeds SCITT Newsletter
Issue 2 - 2017
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.
Last week our trainees participated in the following training sessions:
Collaborative Learning - Supporting Literacy in the Classroom
Mindfulness, Stress & the Teenage Brain
Points to Consider this Week!
This week…
1. You attended sessions on 'Mindfulness - the negatives of long term stress on the body' and the positive impact of 'Collaborative Learning' - in support of literacy and promoting pupil progress. You may wish to discuss these sessions with your colleagues at school, and even try some of these ideas from this training yourself this week. Here are some links which may be of interest you:
http://www.mindful.org/tips-for-teaching-mindfulness-to-kids
https://cooperativelearning.works/
2. Continue to upload or email your Reflective Journal to your Mentor 24hrs prior to your mentor meeting and share / cc with your Link Tutor too. Continue to set focused targets during your mentoring meetings to support you in addressing key areas. Remember it is important to share these targets with all of the host teachers in the department to ensure lesson observation feedback is focused, to allow you to evidence that pupil progress is being made, and the targets that you and your Mentor have set are being met.
3. Continue to gain evidence for your Supplementary Evidence Portfolio and discuss this with your Mentor.
4. Try a new questioning technique, see below for some ideas.
5. Try to get involved with supporting your department. This could be done by helping with after school clubs or lunchtime clubs. This will not only be beneficial to the pupils but to you as well. It will help to build relationships with the pupils in your care and raise your profile at school.
Our Priority – To Become an Outstanding Trainee Teacher
Precise Target Setting
Pupil Progress
Oustanding Trainee Teacher
Evidencing the Teachers' Standards
In each Newsletter 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 and impacting positively on pupil progress. In this issue we will take a look at TS1of the Teachers' Standards - Set high expectations which inspire, motivate and challenge pupils. Below are some suggestions on how this specific standard may be evidenced in your evidence portfolios.
Useful Reminders from Stage One
Blooms's Taxonomy Teacher Planning Kit
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5lzfdvoipulem4i/Bloom%27s_Taxonomy_Teacher_Planning_Kit.pdf?dl=0
Learning Objective Stems
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8y099v4wo6i8ah0/Learning_Objective_Stems.doc?dl=0
Learning Outcome Stems
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2uaejmp6e8mod8j/Learning_Outcome_Stems.doc?dl=0
Differentiation Plenaries
https://www.dropbox.com/s/be0xzc7se0tifx7/Differentiating_plenaries.xps?dl=0
Question time!
As questioning is not explicit in the Teachers' Standards, each issue we will endeavour to focus on a questioning strategy.
Try some suggestions in this link as in the highlighted in the pictures below: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u9gms9er7owtd41/Questioning%20summary1.doc?dl=0
Sharing good practice
Teaching and Learning Ideas - Please share!
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. Have a great week and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sinead