Level 4 Award in Applied Teaching Practices
Welcome to the Next Stage of Your Teaching Journey
Congratulations on taking your next step towards your teaching career. Over the next 12 weeks you will have the opportunity to extend your knowledge, skills and confidence as a professional practitioner in both the classroom and the wider school community.
This course gives you the opportunity to work with your own Professional Assessor (PA) who has a wealth of experience in education and schools. Your PA will give feedback on specific documents in your portfolio and will complete a joint formal observation with your In-School Mentor between weeks 7 and 12. This is a valuable opportunity to work with another education professional to develop your practice.
This course has been designed to support your development in three key aspects of a teacher’s role. These will enable you to make an effective contribution to your school community. The course is split into three themes.
Key Information
Themes
Theme 1: Professional qualities, characteristics and relationships
In this theme you will examine, analyse and reflect on the importance of mentoring and building key professional relationships in your school community. You will be guided on how to take ownership of your professional development. Finally, you will examine, analyse and demonstrate the key characteristics, ethics and morals that make teaching a distinct profession.
Theme 2: Professional skills required for an inclusive lesson and learning environment
In this theme you will examine, analyse, develop, and demonstrate 4 key professional teaching skills with a focus on inclusive teaching and learning. Professional skill 1 is aimed at extending your understanding of how to create an inclusive learning environment and building strong relationships. Professional skill 2 is aimed at expanding your understanding of how to support your pupils with a range of additional needs. Professional skill 3 is aimed at broadening your understanding of lesson planning. Professional skill 4 is aimed at strengthening your understanding of the importance of having a secure subject knowledge when planning and delivering lessons.
Theme 3: Holistic Education and the ‘Whole Child’ approach
In this theme you will be researching your school’s holistic provision for pupils alongside appropriate educational research and government guidance including statutory guidance. For example, you will investigate, analyse and take part in one aspect of your school’s PSHE/RSE curriculum, assemblies programme, extra-curricular provision, and pastoral care to gain an understanding of your school’s ‘Whole Child’ approach.
Your Trainee Portfolio
Each week you will complete a variety of tasks that enable you to build a portfolio of evidence for each of these 3 themes.
Most importantly, the 3 themes run simultaneously.
You will need to check each theme and the corresponding week to make sure that you keep up to date with the tasks in each theme.
You will have a week-by-week guide clearly showing which tasks will need to be completed for each theme.
Your portfolio of evidence will consist of:
- Independent Learning Journal entries
- Study group preparation
- A Wider School Community Project
- An essay on Inclusive lessons and Learning Environments
- Action plans and reflections on your school’s provision
- Your own lesson observations
Your PA portfolio of evidence will consist of:
- 6x Lesson Plans
- 6x Observing Colleagues documents
- 1x Lesson Observation Feedback document
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