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Teaching and Learning

Develop Your Teaching Skills (Full Course)

Get the everyday parts of teaching right, from calm lesson starts to questions that show you who has understood.

  • 2.5 hours
  • 2.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate
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About this course

If a class takes 10 minutes to settle, a chunk of the lesson has gone before you've started. Much of what makes teaching hard happens in routine moments like that, and getting them right frees you up to teach.

This full course brings four practical courses together. You'll set up routines for lesson starts, endings and handing out books so learning time isn't lost. You'll see what high expectations look like in practice, including teaching to the top rather than the middle, and how to make better use of teaching assistants. And you'll use the five key strategies of formative assessment, from hinge questions and peer assessment to a red-and-green card that tells you when a pupil is lost.

The ideas draw on research from Dylan Wiliam, Ron Berger and the EEF, and there's advice for anyone taking a GCSE or A level class for the first time.

Modules

25 modules
  1. 1Introduction2 min
  2. 2Seven strategies to promote good behaviour5 min
  3. 3Rewards and sanctions3 min
  4. 4Establishing the habit of cooperation2 min
  5. 5The beginning and end of lessons2 min
  6. 6Managing class discussions and task transitions3 min
  7. 7Wrap up1 min
  8. 8Introduction3 min
  9. 9Wrap up and resource pack1 min
  10. 10Quality first teaching6 min
  11. 11In-class differentiation2 min
  12. 12Making effective use of teaching assistants9 min
  13. 13Having high expectations of pupils11 min
  14. 14Introduction4 min
  15. 15Motivating pupils12 min
  16. 16The habits of a good teacher12 min
  17. 17The eight steps of excellence13 min
  18. 18Introduction1 min
  19. 19The purposes of assessment3 min
  20. 20Marking and feedback15 min
  21. 21Learning intentions and success criteria5 min
  22. 22Questioning7 min
  23. 23Activating pupils as instructional resources for each other5 min
  24. 24Activating pupils as owners of their own learning3 min
  25. 25Teaching exam classes8 min

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