Reflective Practice
Primary
Consolidate teaching knowledge with our Primary-level course aimed at developing reflective practice in teachers. This course is ideal for beginning teachers in Primary schools (including QTS assessment only applicants in England).
Course Summary
| Target Audience | Delivery Mode | Time to complete |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning teachers (Primary level) | Online | 4 hrs |
Learning Objectives |
- Develop your emotion management, communication & empathy, resilience & adaptability, organisation & planning competencies.
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| Module | Overview |
|---|---|
| Module One: Behaviour Management | This module introduces new teachers to sensitive approaches to managing behaviour and effective strategies to promote inclusive practices. Expert teachers share ways to help students regulate their emotions. They also discuss how to be proactive in your approach and discuss what the evidence-base says. Finally, experts talk about why building trust with parents is so important. |
| Module Two: Adaptive Teaching | This module begins by looking at what student barriers to learning could be. Expert teachers talk about how they develop effective learning behaviours in their students and strategies that work for group work. Experts share the importance of having a ‘Plan B’ and why it’s important to consider progression across subject areas. Finally, the module looks at teaching English as an Additional Language (EAL) students. |
| Module Three: Communicating with Parents and/or Carers | This module focuses on communicating effectively with parents and guardians. It takes a close look at preparing for parents’ & guardians evenings’, approaches to homework, building honest and transparent relationships with parents, working with classroom helpers, and having difficult conversations with parents. |
| Module Four: Working with Colleagues | The final module takes a close look at mentor feedback and working with teaching assistants. Expert teachers share their thoughts on dealing with sensitive information and inappropriate comments by students. It explores the code of practice for teachers and why it’s important to set boundaries. Finally, it considers ways to prioritise extra responsibilities. |
Course Structure
This course enables you to reflect on realistic scenarios in a school-based setting, consider your responses, and receive real-time, tailored feedback from experienced teachers. The course is designed to support your professional learning by allowing you to engage with a variety of situations that you may encounter in your own classroom in a virtual environment.
Get started
Get started
After enrolling, we will send participants an activation email. This email will enable them to create a TSP account and access the course through the dashboard.
Scenarios
Scenarios
In each module, beginning teachers will view five scenarios, rate the appropriateness of three possible responses, and write a brief rationale for each. They will then discover how experienced teachers rated each response and, most importantly, why.
Feedback reports
Feedback reports
At the end of each module, experienced teachers show new teachers their overall alignment and provide resources, readings, and strategies for practice in feedback reports.
Evidencing
Evidencing
Once participants finish the course, they can download a comprehensive report and a certificate of completion.
Track progress
Track progress
Organisations have the ability to track participant progress, identify individuals in need of additional support, and evaluate the effectiveness of the course by viewing individual and collective data after logging in.
Course resources
Hosting seminars in conjunction with the T-Insight courses is completely optional and depends on your requirements and preferences. However, you can choose to facilitate guided group discussions as 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 provide resources and seminar guides that you can utilise to lead seminars following each T-Insight module, which 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.