e-Qualitas: Curriculum on a Page Our curriculum is created using eleven key components, each of which fit together to provide a comprehensive introduction to the core body of knowledge, skills and behaviours that define great teaching.
Mental Health and Well-being • • •
Know and Understand:
How to develop effective strategies for resilience and self-care.
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Maintain a sustainable work-life balance. How to get ready for your first years in teaching and a sustainable and rewarding career beyond.
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Substantive and Disciplinary Knowledge Know and Understand:
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That secure subject knowledge helps teachers to motivate pupils and teach effectively.
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How to anticipate common misconceptions and help pupils master important concepts.
Evaluative Lesson Planning Know and Understand:
How to use research-informed approaches that illustrate the techniques in planning, sequencing, modelling, explaining, questioning and reviewing. That novices need more structure early in a domain. How to build strong mental models for pupils.
How Pupils Learn
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How Pupils learn and how cognitive science influences teaching and learning.
Evidence Informed
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Adaptive Practices and Expertise •
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Behaviour for Learning, Climate Know and Understand:
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How to develop learning environments, establish routines and set high expectations that support effective behaviour management. Understand the importance of positive relationships and how pupils’ circumstances can affect their behaviours Reflect with expert colleagues on behaviour and responses.
Teacher as Professional Know and Understand: Have a clear understanding of safeguarding and statutory responsibilities. Learn how to build effective professional relationships, including with parents and carers and other members of school communities. Develop your reflective practice through the embedded use of professional learning conversations with your mentor and other colleagues
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Know and Understand:
Learn how to adapt teaching for all to create an inclusive classroom environment, including for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Understand the concepts of equity and equality.
Know and Understand:
How to adapt strategies within a lesson or across lessons to provide support or challenge to pupils. How to use information from formative assessments to inform the design of future learning sequences.
Pupil Progress Know and Understand:
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How to build on foundational knowledge before sequencing more complex content.
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How to take into account pupils’ prior knowledge when planning to introduce new information.
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How to check for understanding to gauge progress in a lesson.
Assessment
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How to make decisions to support pupil learning based on the best available evidence of ‘what works’ in education. How to make judgements about the right approaches for their own specific context, using research evidence to inform these decisions.
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Know and Understand: Learn that effective assessment is critical to teaching and supporting pupils to make progress. Learn how to use assessment techniques in an efficient, manageable and timely manner. Learn which assessment techniques are particularly effective for your subject/phase