Leeds SCITT Newsletter
Issue 1 2018
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.
Points to Consider this Week!
This week…
- Remember to maintain good communication with your mentor, link tutor, ITTC, host teachers and Leeds SCITT. Please share your evidence portfolio with your mentor, ITTC and your link Tutor to check progress. Each week share your updated Reflective Journal with your Mentor 24hrs prior to your mentor meeting. 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 meaningful, to allow you to evidence that pupil progress is being made, and the targets that you and your Mentor have set are met.
- Meet deadlines, lesson plans to be given to host teacher 48 hours in advance of teaching.
- Attendance is part of the statutory requirement of gaining QTS, therefore you must always follow your placement school's protocol for reporting absence as well as the Leeds SCITT policy.
- Soon you will be having your first Link Tutor Visit , please think about what the focus of your Supplementary Evidence Portfolio should be. Discuss this with your mentor and link tutor, so that you know what this evidence should consist of.
- Try a new questioning technique, some ideas further on for you to try.
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 Part 2 of the Teachers' Standards, Personal and Professional Conduct (PPC).
To gain QTS, all trainees need to show High Standards for Personal and Professional Conduct by the end of Stage 3 to gain QTS Status.
PART TWO: PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
A teacher is expected to demonstrate consistently high standards of personal and professional conduct. The following statements define the behaviour and attitudes which set the required standard for conduct throughout a teacher’s career.
- Teachers uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, by:
~ treating pupils with dignity, building relationships rooted in mutual respect, and at all times observing proper boundaries appropriate to a teacher’s professional position
~ having regard for the need to safeguard pupils’ well-being, in accordance with statutory provisions
~ showing tolerance of and respect for the rights of others
~ not undermining fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect, and tolerance of persons with different faiths and beliefs
~ ensuring that personal beliefs are not expressed in ways which exploit pupils’ vulnerability or might lead them to break the law.
- Teachers must have proper and professional regard for the ethos, policies and practices of the school in which they teach, and maintain high standards in their own attendance and punctuality.
- Teachers must have an understanding of, and always act within, the statutory frameworks which set out their professional duties and responsibilities.
Useful Reminders from Stage One
Find in the links below, some of the resources used throughout Stage One in support of PPC.
What does it mean to be a professional?
Workload
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fos3301qwqmrkyl/Session%205%20-%20Sustainability%20%20Workload.pdf?dl=0
E-Learning Training on Prevent
https://www.elearning.prevent.homeoffice.gov.uk
PLT21 Safeguarding
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tihqqp6w4srxbfz/PLT21%20Safeguarding.pdf?dl=0
FGM DFE Guidance
Other resources which may help you:
The Citizenship Foundation
https://www.youngcitizens.org/Pages/Category/teaching-materials
Promoting Fundamental British Values
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/promoting-fundamental-british-values-through-smsc
Stage Three - Immersion Days
Titus Salt School - Behaviour for Learning
A big thank you also to Amanda Dutton-Taylor (Assistant Headteacher) and Lynne Punt (Leader in Behaviour Intervention) from Titus Salt School who led the session on Dealing with Pupil Behaviour (please see link to access the pdf and photos from this day).
Dealing with Pupil Behaviour
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4amwiumug5s0izu/Dealing%20with%20pupil%20behaviour%20session%202.pdf?dl=0
Allerton Grange School (AGS) Immersion Day
Outline of the day was as follows: a warm welcome from the Headteacher Mr Roper, whom explained to the trainees about the ethos and values of the school. Trainees had the opportunity to observe lessons across the school; attend a session on Promoting Inclusion for EAL Students at AGS, including some top tips for teaching EAL pupils; our trainees attended a session on Multifaith & Mulitcultural Schools, with practical tips and information shared on how to be inclusive to all students. Finally the last session of the day focused on Deaf Friendly Teaching and Working with Deaf and Impaired Students.
In this final session, our trainees had the opportunity to ask deaf and hearing impaired students about their experiences of being a student in school, and what learning and accessing the curriculum was like for them.
A big thank you to Hadi Alnassiri (Deputy Director of Learning) for organising this day and to all colleagues from Allerton Grange School, whom delivered sessions and allowed our trainees to observe their lessons. A great day!
Here are links to the presentations from this day:
Promoting Inclusion for EAL Students at AGS - Jenny Parker
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvr4eoti5kw2jf1/EAL%20February%20%202018.pdf?dl=0
Multicultural Schools
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e68pkc2i52uv83p/multicultural%20schools.pdf?dl=0
Deaf Friendly Teaching
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5to1vnf03h4wqbr/Deaf%20Friendly%20teaching%20cluster%202017.pdf?dl=0
Question time!
Which pupil(s) will I target?
When during the lesson should I target the pupil(s)?
What am I trying to find out from the pupil(s)?
Here are a few ideas for you to try!
Give each pupil a '?'card on entry - the aim is for the pupil to lose their card during the lesson by answering a question correctly
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