This Week
This week sees the start of the 80% teaching timetable for beginning teachers as indicated on p36 of the handbook. This amount of teaching is maintained throughout the following six weeks in the run up to the end of the programme. The 80% is spent in class, teaching whole class and groups for which the beginning teacher must plan and evaluate. The remaining 20% is spent out of class for PPA and any activities that support practice development, for example, observing other teachers as part of an action plan set to meet a target. No time should be spent in class assisting in the mentor’s lessons.
If mentors have any concerns they should contact the university tutor as soon as possible.
Everything else remains the same this week, so please feel free to refer back to this post for further details.
Reminders
- Planning: Unless otherwise directed by the university tutor, planning should be completed on the university template, include appropriate detail and an evaluation of the lesson. It is then saved to the beginning teacher’s OneDrive folder. Planning for the formal observation lesson should be uploaded to ePortfolio as usual.
- University Tutor Visits: These continue this week. Further guidance can be found here.
- Lesson Observations: We continue to encourage mentors to note the time of each teaching moment during the lesson observation on the form. See this update for more guidance.
- Formal lesson observations: must be video recorded on the university iPads. Further details can be found on this page.
- Delayed Debrief: A reminder for mentors that there is no longer a formal approach. Further details are in this post.
- PDAs: Beginning teachers should continue with these activities found in the PDJ.
- Please could all mentors and beginning teachers ensure they have read and are familiar with the contents of the Primary Entitlement Document. Thank you.
- Beginning teachers should begin completing the appropriate Professional Development Activities (PDAs) found in the Professional Development Journal (PDJ).