Courses
Essential Skills for Teachers ~ Module One
Teaching Methods that Work: Active Learning & Lesson Plans and Schemes of Work that Pass Muster
Intended audience:
Curriculum and Team Managers, Advance Practitioners, Heads of Faculty, Programme Leaders, Teachers and Lecturers, Development Managers, Subject Learning Coaches, or anyone with responsibility for improving Inspection
Focus:
Not everyone has time to read recent and current educational research. Yet some well-founded, large-scale research draws important conclusions about the latest understanding of what constitutes effective teaching and learning. The morning session is a practical approach of how we can apply this understanding to our learners, to maximise their learning. We will look at examples of strategies which utilise these principles, and you will have the chance to try some out and devise some of your own.
The afternoon session will address the importance of getting the paperwork right as a first step to a good inspection grade: many inspection reports identify serious gaps in lesson plans and schemes of work, which could easily be rectified. As well as an inspection focus, we will look at college-wide improvements in Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans, which have proved to have positive outcomes in other areas. These documents are important tools for carrying out teaching and learning: they help us to organise our thinking, and our practice.
Purpose:
During this event you will:
- consider the practical implications of the current reseach into effective learning
- look at, try and devise teaching activities and strategies which put theory into practice
- identify ways to improve and refine your own teaching
- understand what inspectors are looking for in lesson plans and schemes of work
- examine a range of lesson plans and identify strengths and weaknesses
- establish the criteria of a good lesson plan or scheme of work and how to demonstrate learner activity and differentiation
A full set of course materials will be provided for delegates to use in their own institutions.
