Please see page 8 of the handbook for further details.
The Weekly Review follows the same format each week. The agenda is below and, in discussing the items on it, trainees and CMs consider:
- how the traineeās practice has developed over the past week;
- the progress of the children they have taught.
If there is a placement theme that week, the trainee’s progress in this area should also be discussed.
The Agenda
- Review trainee progress by:
- considering the traineeās reflection on their own progress;
- discussing the evidence that supports the traineeās progress (see p.23);
- reviewing the extent to which last weekās targets have been met;
- updating the Tracker in the appropriate areas;
- consider anything arising from informal feedback and the weekly lesson observation.
- Review pupil progress by:
- identifying evidence of pupil progress and learning over time using the full range of evidence, including lesson observations and childrenās work;
- discuss what differences the traineesā teaching has made and why;
- reviewing the evidence that trainee has brought to the meeting;
- considering how the progress made by the trainee, in (1) above, has facilitated pupil progress;
- review the next steps in learning for the children and the best ways to help them towards these (with trainees referring back to their annotated planning and assessment notes).
- Identify the strengths within the traineeās practice and the areas for development.
- From the areas for development, identify the most significant to be the Focus Improvement Area (see p.9)
- Set targets and what will help the trainees to progress towards these (firstly for the FIA and then for any additional areas of development) e.g.:
- Observing and/or meeting expert practitioners, including CM.
- Deconstructing good practice with the CM.
- Working with a specific group of children.
- Personal reading.
- Revisiting notes from university or other training sessions.
- Discuss findings from PDAs completed during the week and those which should be looked at next week.