Certificate of Achievement

Robert Watkins

has completed the following course:

Assessor to Teacher: Deciding How to Teach

Education and Training Foundation (ETF)

This online course explored: understanding and developing your approach to teaching, planning effective lessons and undertaking formative assessments

4 weeks, 2 hours per week

Dr Katerina Kolyva

Chief Executive Officer

Education and Training Foundation (ETF)

Transcript

Syllabus

Week 1 - Thinking about teaching

  • Who is in the room, how do they learn and what needs do they have (group profile)
  • ‘Knowing myself’ – what kind of teacher are you (self-reflection)?
  • What will you be required to cover in your teaching?
  • The end-point assessment (EPA) and awarding organisation (AO)
  • Who you will be working with
  • Exploring ways of organising content for a scheme of work

Week 2 – Considerations for teaching

  • Setting objectives (SMART targets)
  • What English, maths and digital (EMD) skills your learners need to achieve their learning outcomes
  • Safeguarding and Prevent
  • Equality and diversity – thinking about how to work towards an inclusive classroom, actively promoting Equality and diversity
  • Formative assessment - techniques

Week 3 - Activity week

  • Participants consolidate learning from Weeks 1 and 2 by choosing one from five independent learning tasks.

Week 4 – Planning a lesson

  • Lesson planning and how this fits into the bigger picture – identify need, plan and design, deliver or facilitate, assess, evaluate
  • Designing learning tasks and active learning, strategies for a more learner-centred approach, differentiating
  • Adapting to developments in the workplace
  • Challenges and benefits of using group work, key points for successful group work
  • Group dynamics and Tuckman’s five stages of group development
  • Reflective practice – three useful models of reflection
  • Action planning

Issued on 8th January 2022

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Free online course:

Assessor to Teacher: Deciding How to Teach

Education and Training Foundation (ETF)