New to Teaching: Strategies & Tools Needed to Enter the Classroom for the First Time

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Entering a classroom for the first time can be scary and overwhelming. Are the students going to listen to you? Will you lose your voice during the first week of term? How are you supposed to plan a lesson when you have students of all abilities in the same class?  This new course will give you the essential tools for entering the classroom. We will explore important topics such as behaviour management, adaptive learning, voice control and lesson planning to make sure you make your first steps into the teaching profession with confidence and assurance.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Gain control of your classroom by establishing clear routines
• Learn how to control your voice in the classroom
• Take away different approaches to make sure all students feel safe in your classroom
• Learn how to plan lessons making sure all students are showing progress

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PROGRAMME

First Steps in the Classroom:  How will I Establish my Presence?

10.00am

• High expectations for all students, is this a possibility or a myth for new teachers?
• Routines, are they important?
• Planning lesson according to abilities, will this improve behaviour?
• Behaviour for learning: can behaviour hinder learning?

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Break

10.50am

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Safeguarding and Feeling Safe in and Outside the Classroom

11.10am

• Keeping children safe in and outside the classroom: what is your responsibility as a teacher?
• How can we build relationships with all students and focus on your more vulnerable students?
• Working with the pastoral team to improve the safeguarding of the students
• Working with parents: how should we tackle non cooperative parents and keep the students safe at the same time

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It is Your Classroom, Your Rules!

12.00pm

• Routines! Clear routines with the aim of high expectations for all students.
• Behaviour for learning: How can we tackle low level disruption?
• Voice control: how do I not raise my voice?

 

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Lunch

1.00pm

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Adaptive Teaching: Making sure all Students are Showing Progress.

2.00pm

• What is the difference between differentiation and adaptive teaching?
• Exploring the needs of SEND/Pupil Premium/LAC/EAL/SEMH/More able students.
• How can we adapt teaching without creating more work?

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Break

2.45pm

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The Importance of Planning a Lesson According to the Students’ Needs and Progress

3.00pm

• What are the key ingredients to a successful lesson?
• How do we know if the students are making progress?
• Adaptive teaching: how do we plan for a mixed ability class or a class with students with needs?
• Assessment for learning: what tools could we use to check understanding in the classroom?
• Lesson plans: should we change our plan of a lesson depending on the students’ progress? Is a lesson plan a working document or a fixed document?

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Depart

3.45pm