Syllabus

• Week 1

  You and others

  • Welcome to Week 1

    Welcome to the course! In your first Steps, you'll meet your lead educator and your fellow learners, and find out what you'll be learning about over the next four weeks in Supporting Successful Learning in Primary School.

  • Your point of view

    Understand more about how your values, beliefs and attitude can impact teaching and learning in school.

  • Bias in the classroom

    Over the next few Steps you'll find out how your unconscious bias may affect supporting learning in a classroom, and challenge these notions to better understand how to deal with them.

  • Types of teachers

    In the next few Steps you explore the use of metaphors to help you understand what type of educator you are and what skills you can develop to improve your working practices.

  • Review and reflect

    Reflect on the topics covered in Week 1, test your knowledge and find out what you'll be learning in Week 2.

• Week 2

  How people learn

  • Welcome to Week 2

    Welcome to Week 2 where you'll explore how people learn. You'll start this Week off by hearing from children and their thoughts on school, and taking a brief look through a child's point of view in a classroom scenario.

  • Doing things differently

    Over the next few Steps you'll explore the fundamentals that are required for children to learn, and you'll take a closer look at the stages of development that underpin these principles.

  • More way than one way

    In this activity you'll discover there is more than one way that children learn in schools.

  • Expectations and fulfilling them

    You'll reflect on what you already know and what your expectations are of the children in order for learning to be successful.

  • Review and reflect

    Reflect on the topics covered in Week 2, test your knowledge and find out what you'll be learning in Week 3.

• Week 3

  The environment for learning

  • Welcome to Week 3

    At the beginning of Week 3 of Supporting Successful Learning in Primary School, find out what we mean by the learning environment in school and explore some of the common misconceptions that occur in the classroom.

  • Teaching in reality

    What makes the learning environment work? Hear from our teaching experts as they discuss what works for them, and explore the impact of how a simple change can make a difference through our case study: The sofa.

  • Haydn scale

    At what point does behaviour in the classroom become an issue? Over the next few Steps explore the Haydn Scale - a tool that helps measure behaviour and the impact this has on teaching and learning.

  • Behaviour in the classroom

    How do you ensure a good working environment for learning? Explore how children's behaviour can affect this atmosphere and explore techniques that help overcome these challenges.

  • Review and reflect

    Reflect on the topics covered in Week 3, test your knowledge and find out what you'll be learning in Week 4.

• Week 4

  Communication and language

  • Welcome to Week 4

    Welcome to the final Week of Supporting Successful Learning in Primary School. You're introduced to the topics for the Week and you'll explore what language means.

  • Communication

    In the next few Steps, hear from our teaching experts discuss language development and the skills required. You'll also explore the importance of communication and the impact on children who have communication difficulties.

  • Listening

    Listening may seem like a simple skill but if it's not done correctly it can impact a child's learning, well-being and development. Find out more in the next Steps how to improve your listening skills.

  • The right questions

    In this activity you'll be exploring the importance of asking the right question. Investigate the various types of questions, and find out what works and what doesn't to get the most out of supporting learning with students.

  • Review and reflect

    Thank you for joining us. In these final Steps, you'll reflect on the Week's topics and the course, test your knowledge, pose your questions to Helen and consider the next steps you may like to take.

Who will you learn with?