Responsive Teaching
Primary
Our Responsive Teaching Primary course helps you identify students who are struggling and adapt your teaching in a responsive way. Ideal for beginning teachers within Primary education.
Course Summary
| Target Audience | Delivery Mode | Time to complete |
|---|---|---|
| Beginning teachers (Primary level) | Online | 4 hrs |
| Learning Objectives |
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| Develop your emotion management, communication & empathy, resilience & adaptability, organisation & planning, growth mindset and conscientiousness competencies. |
| Reflect on teaching scenarios you are likely to encounter and consider how you might respond. |
| Develop your understandings, skills and expertise related to adaptive teaching. |
| Develop your teaching self-efficacy. |
| Module | Overview |
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| Module One: Understanding Difference | The vital importance of understanding that no two pupils are alike, and that teachers need to adapt their teaching to the pupils in front of them. There is no “one size fits all”, and neither do pupils necessarily fit neatly into neat categories. Meeting the needs of all pupils needs to be managed without creating an unmanageable workload. |
| Module Two: Targeted Support | Recognising students in need of targeted support, for example, due to absence, falling achievement, specific learning needs and adopting appropriate strategies such as effective modelling, framing and reframing, assessment for learning and vocabulary development. |
| Module Three: Flexible Grouping and Other Approaches | Flexible grouping can be found in two forms: Homogenous (same skill level), heterogeneous (varied skill level) The purpose is to group students for the length of that learning goal or skill. Grouping can be based on a collective weakness, which can then be addressed with targeted teaching. |
| Module Four: Supporting Students with additional needs | The importance of having high expectations for all and not limiting the ambition of pupils with additional needs. The importance of inclusive practices especially for students with Special Educational Needs (SEND) and English as an Additional Language (EAL). Understanding the difference between equality and equity, and what that means for teaching pupils with SEND and EAL. |