Leeds SCITT Newsletter
Issue 1 2016 - 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.
Points to Consider this Week!
This week…
- 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.
- You will all be attending your Lead School on Friday 16th December. During this time you will have an opportunity to discuss your progress regarding your First Master's Level Assignment - Supporting Individuals. The outline for this is found in Page 33 of your Stage Two/Three Handbook. If you have any questions regarding this assignment, you can contact a.pearce@leedstrinity.org or visit, the Learning Hub team at Leeds Trinity University, whom offer friendly and personalised support to help develop your writing/ academic skills.
- You may have had or currently having a Link Tutor Visit , have a 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, see below for some ideas.
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).
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 1
Find in the links below, some of the resources used throughout Stage 1 in support of PPC.
Working together to Safeguard Children
http://moodle.leedstrinity.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=133690
Safeguarding Scenarios
http://moodle.leedstrinity.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=133691
Helpful Website Addresses
http://moodle.leedstrinity.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=133694
Safeguarding & Bullying PowerPoint
http://moodle.leedstrinity.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=133994
FGM DFE Guidance
http://moodle.leedstrinity.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=133995
Other resources which may help you:
The Citizenship Foundation
http://www.doingsmsc.org.uk/resources/
Promoting Fundamental British Values
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/promoting-fundamental-british-values-through-smsc
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