T-Insight: How to Teach Secondary Course
Consolidate knowledge, develop reflective practice and learn how to teach students effectively with our T-Insight Secondary-level course. This course is ideal for beginning teachers in secondary schools, including QTS (assessment only) applicants in England.
Get started
Once enrolled, participants will be sent an activation email. This will allow them to create a TSP account and access the course through the dashboard.
Course modules
Module One: Behaviour Management
During this module, new teachers will learn to not take things personally and strategies to put students at ease. Expert teachers discuss ways to deal with bullying and knowing how and when to intervene with aggressive behaviour. This module focuses on safeguarding in schools and how new teachers should deal with homophobic behaviour and language.
Module Two: Adaptive Teaching
This module helps new teachers understand difference in students and how they can maximise student engagement and participation. Expert teachers talk about the importance of giving students a voice and how they use praise effectively, Finally, the module takes a deeper look at how to teach students with additional needs.
Module Three: Assessment and Reporting
This module takes a close look at assessment and reporting. It begins by considering the value of observations of learning and goes on to explore what good marking look like. It highlights the value of feedback as an influencer of learning and achievement. Finally, expert teachers share how they manage deadlines.
Module Four: Working with Parents and Colleagues
This final module looks at how to communicate effectively with colleagues and parents. Expert teachers share ways they work with parents’ to support learning, and how they approach parents’ evenings. Finally, the module looks at school policies for staff absences.
Scenarios
Each module includes five scenarios where beginning teachers will view the scenario, rate the appropriateness of three possible responses and write a brief rationale for each. Next, they find out how experienced teachers rated each response and most importantly why.
Feedback reports
Feedback reports at the end of each module show new teachers their overall alignment with experienced teachers and include resources, readings and strategies for practice.
Evidencing
Once participants complete the course, they will be able to download a comprehensive report as well as a certificate of completion.
Track progress
Organisations can login to track participant progress, identify individuals in need of additional support and evaluate the effectiveness of the course by viewing individual and collective data.
Course resources
Hosting seminars in conjunction with the T-Insight courses is completely optional and depends on your requirements and preferences. However, guided group discussions can be a great way to encourage your students and/or staff to discuss the classroom scenarios and related educational concepts and issues in more depth. We offer resources and seminar guides that you can use to facilitate seminars following each T-Insight module that are designed to:
a) Stimulate discussion amongst participants
b) Enable participants to share multiple perspectives of teaching & learning
c) Further build participants’ teaching confidence and classroom readiness.