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PRACTICAL TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Practical Teaching and Professional Development remains a central component of these awards, and is developing as an embedded area of the curriculum, rather than a discrete module. In order to support trainees in their development and management of practical teaching we have for produced a separate 'Guide to Practical Teaching and Professional Development' for each year of the awards.
Course Handbook Year 2 - ms word - pdf
Guide to Practical Teaching and Professional Development Year 2 - ms word - pdf
Both include the following:
Practical Teaching File
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What is a Practical Teaching File?
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Planning learning and teaching
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Learning outcomes for Practical Teaching File
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Organisation of your Practical Teaching File
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What should be in your Practical Teaching File?
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Practical Teaching Observations
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Learning outcomes
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How is this progress and development evidenced?
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Organisation of your Professional Development File
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Milestone Reviews
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Professional Development Journal (PDJ)
TEACHING EXCELLENCE
Bath Spa University Lifelong Learning Initial teacher Training (LL ITT) Team developed a shared vision about what we believe constitutes teaching excellence during 2008, and this document is the updated guidance resulting from that as of August 2009.
This Model of Teaching Excellence takes account of best practice and ideas from a variety of sources and from the values and experiences of our teaching team and other teachers we have trained.
ACHIEVING TEACHING EXCELLENCE - MS word 400k - PDF
The LL ITT team believes that excellent teachers:
- Understand how their students learn and use a range of resources and approaches in their teaching
- Secure achievement and personal growth for all students irrespective of their ability, background and national origin.
- Use student-centred teaching which promotes autonomy.
- Promote an inclusive atmosphere and ensure equity throughout their teaching.
- Support students who encounter difficulty in their learning for any reason.
- Demonstrate clarity, creativity and innovation in the design, planning delivery and evaluation of learning activities and programmes.
- Use assessment to support achievement.
- Evaluate their teaching performance regularly and enhance their teaching and learning as a result.
- Regularly take advantage of professional development opportunities.
- Engage with scholarship in valued forms of knowledge related to learning and teaching.
- Champion high quality learning and teaching in their organisation.
- Support and collaborate with colleagues to share and promote good practice.
- Equip their learners for life in its broadest sense.
- Contribute to community cohesion
Supporting Documentation for practical teaching
Personal Profile (word 206k)
This document does what the title suggests, and provides a short
profile of trainees, including some key information about their current
teaching situation, their past experience and particular information
they wish staff marking their work to know. Its is completed by
trainees towards the start of the year. The Personal Profile has to be
included by trainees with most submitted assessment activities across
each year of the awards.
Practical Teaching Arrangements proforma (word 208k)
This document summarises the teaching arrangements of each trainee,
and key names contact details for those teaching / working with /
supporting trainees. Its is a key part of the central record of
trainees of each centre, and the course tutor, subject specific mentor
and observer will all need access to this form.
Practical Teaching Log (word 206k)
A simple proforma to record the required hours of practical teaching
across each year of the awards. It also has a section for target
areas for improvement and targets achieved which is another simple 'at
a glance' tool for tracking trainee individual progress.
Session plan format (required for 3 plans relating to LL4201.3)
Session plan help
notes
Lesson plan
completed example of above
Scheme of work format (an example of a 'best practice' scheme of work)
There are several practical teaching pro formas, and these are available below:
Practical Teaching Assessment Feedback (Generic)
Practical Teaching - Observation form for observing other teachers
Practical Teaching Observing another teacher - year 2
Self Evaluation of own teaching
sessions proforma Yr 1
Self Evaluation of own teaching sessions proforma Yr 2
Year 2 Tracking Document for Practical Teaching File - (with thanks to Lorraine Simpson of Wiltshire College)
TRACKING DOCUMENTS FOR PRACTICAL TEACHING OBSERVATIONS
For trainees to track their progress at achieving learning outcomes
relating to Practical Teaching as they move through Years 1 and 2.
Practical Teaching Observations Tracking Year 1
Practical Teaching Observations Tracking Year 2
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
Initial Individual Development Plan (word 204k)
This first version of an Individual Development Plan should be completed by trainees by the end of induction, and provides a useful summary of each trainee's starting points in all key areas of the programme.
Individual Development Plan (word 205k)
This IDP is used from induction onwards to summarise trainee progress, review priorities, establish action points and priorities and record any discussions on tutorial matters. See tutorial support
SELF ASSESSMENT TRACKING
There is an expectation that all trainees will regularly review and update their own progress against the LLUK standards, and the Minimum Core. This is a challenging load in addition to other work for assessment, but we have devised four straightforward proformas, featured below, which make this task clear and straightforward for all. The self assessment tracking will normally feature as part of Milestone Reviews.
Practical Teaching OfSTED Self AssessmentSelf assessments for