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Professional Development for Early Career Teachers

Find out how to develop and improve your teaching abilities as you start your career as a teacher.

26,234 enrolled on this course

Professional Development for Early Career Teachers

26,234 enrolled on this course

  • 5 weeks

  • 3 hours per week

  • Accreditation available

  • Digital certificate when eligible

  • Intermediate level

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Improve your teaching practice and learn to manage your workload

The early stages of a career in teaching can be daunting. You’re regularly faced with new responsibilities and challenges. On this course you will get advice and support on improving your teaching skills as well as juggling your workload so you’re able to handle these challenges.

Through the course you will reflect on and identify your professional development needs. You will explore: behaviour management strategies, pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, ways to prioritise your workload and more.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 5 seconds The early stages of a career in teaching can be daunting due to the ever-changing landscape of education you regularly have to adapt to new initiatives and responsibilities. The aim of this course is to provide a starting point to enable you to develop a reflective approach to respond quickly to these challenges. Throughout the course you will be supported in reflecting on your practice to identify your strengths and professional development needs. You’ll gain advice and support from both experienced tutors and fellow learners in areas such as behavior management, assessment and managing workload as well as many others.

Skip to 0 minutes and 36 seconds We know that as a teacher you are very busy therefore the course is purposefully designed to be flexible and fit in around the time you have available. Feel free to move their activities at your own pace and make the course work for you. We hope that this course will ride a safe and supportive learning environment in which you can reflect on and develop your teaching practice to benefit you not just now but for the rest of your career.

Syllabus

  • Week 1

    Evaluating strengths and reflective practice

    • Welcome to the course

      Before you get started, take a moment to meet your fellow learners and plan your learning journey through the course.

    • Reflective practice

      How you can use reflection to support the development of your teaching practice, starting with identifying your strengths.

    • Reflective models

      Exploring different models to help you to reflect effectively on your practice.

    • Managing workload

      How do you organise and manage a large workload?

    • Reflections and feedback

      Reflections and feedback

  • Week 2

    Behaviour management

    • Welcome

      What’s coming up in the next part of the course.

    • Behaviour in schools

      Meet Professor Terry Haydn and his research into behaviour and the working atmosphere in schools.

    • Working atmosphere scale

      Consider the working atmosphere in your classroom and the factors influencing it.

    • Underlying causes

      What is a student’s behaviour telling us? How to approach identifying the causes of inappropriate behaviour.

    • Identifying target(s)

      Reflecting on your current practice and identifying a target to focus on.

    • Reflections and feedback

      A chance to reflect on your learning.

  • Week 3

    Assessment practices

    • Welcome

      What’s coming up in the next part of the course.

    • Assessment in your classroom

      Assessment can take many different forms. This is an opportunity to share what assessment looks like in your classroom.

    • Approaches to assessment

      In this activity, we will explore the different forms of assessment and identify strategies you can use in the classroom.

    • Bloom's taxonomy

      Questioning forms a vital part of effective assessment. In this activity we will focus on Bloom's revised taxonomy and explore strategies to encourage and develop talk and questioning within your classroom.

    • Self-review

      Consider the assessment strategies you use in the classroom. Do you favour one form in particular? How useful is the information you gain from these strategies?

    • Optional activity – classroom questioning survey

      It is important to have a clear understanding of the use of questioning in your classroom by both your students and yourself.

    • Reflections

      This is an opportunity to reflect on what you have learned from this part of the course.

  • Week 4

    Challenge and support

    • Welcome

      In this part of the course, we will explore the impact challenge, support and motivation have on student progress.

    • High challenge, low threat

      Humans seek challenge. However, the majority of people feel very uncomfortable when facing a challenge in a high threat situations such as exams. This activity explores the impact these situations have on students.

    • Supporting learning

      All learners will need support in one form or another. This activity explores approaches to differentiation and other methods to support students.

    • Motivation

      A lack of motivation to learn means a student is unlikely to realise their potential, no matter how much support or appropriate challenge is provided. This activity explores some of the factors influencing student motivation.

    • Looking forward

      This is an opportunity to reflect on what you have taken from the previous activities and a look forward to the final section of the course.

  • Week 5

    Reflection and next steps

    • Welcome

      In this part of the course, we will explore the impact challenge, support and motivation have on student progress.

    • Reviewing your progress

      The final part of any reflective cycle is to review your progress, celebrate success and identify the next steps in your professional development.

    • How has behaviour changed in your lessons?

      This is chance to return to the behaviour poll conducted in the second part of the course to see how things have changed.

    • Lesson study

      Lesson Study is a powerful collaborative tool, which can be used to develop pedagogy and address specific teaching and learning issues.

    • Coaching and mentoring

      Colleagues are a valuable source of support and guidance. Utilising these relationships through formal coaching and mentoring can be an effective method of supporting any teacher's professional development.

    • Drawing things to a close

      An opportunity to reflect on the course as a whole and how you can continue and extend your professional development in the future.

Who is this accredited by?

The CPD Certification Service
The CPD Certification Service:

The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.

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On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Develop your understanding and use of reflective practice to review and identify your own professional development needs.
  • Reflect on, develop and extend your understanding and application of a range of behaviour management strategies.
  • Reflect on and develop your assessment for learning (AFL) approaches to identify the learning needs of your students.
  • Reflect on and develop your pedagogical approach to teaching and learning, including providing appropriate challenge and support for your students.
  • Develop effective strategies for managing and prioritising workload.

Who is the course for?

This course is primarily for teachers starting out in their careers, but will be of use to teachers at any stage of their career.

Who will you learn with?

I qualified to teach in 1997, and have taught all year groups, in addition to leading two primary schools. I am now a Lecturer in Primary Education. I specialise in science and professional studies.

I'm a lecturer in Primary Education at UEA. I have taught across several year groups and held senior leadership roles in different primary schools. Before teaching, I was an analytical chemist.

Lecturer in Primary Education (Mathematics) at UEA. Father of 2, living in North Norfolk. Experienced classroom practitioner enjoying the opportunity to make a difference.

Who developed the course?

UEA (University of East Anglia)

The University of East Anglia is an internationally renowned university providing top quality academic, social and cultural facilities to over 15,000 students from over 100 countries around the globe.

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