TLA Fundamentals

Warrington & Vale Royal's teaching and learning fundamentals are: 

• Behaviours for learning 

• Impact of planning on individual's progress 

• Impact of assessment for learning

• Development of vocational English 

• Development of vocational Maths 

Please flick through the Google Slides below for a breakdown of each one. 

Key Takeaways:  

• • Knowledge / Skills / Behaviours  - It is important to plan from a very secure knowledge base. Decide precisely and specifically what you want the students to know or be able  ‘to do’ by the end of the session, or series of sessions. (What do you want to ‘stick’?)

• • Know your group and their capabilities - plan your lessons with your ‘individual’ students in mind, to maximise the potential of each one of them in your class.

• • Teach to the top and scaffold down -to set high expectations, it is recommended that you ‘teach to the top and scaffold down’. By this we mean, design a lesson that is stretching for even the most able learners in the class and ‘plan in’ the appropriate help, guidance and support for those that you know require it.

• • Check for understanding - How do you know that students are ‘getting it’? Plan in opportunities for students to ‘tell you’ what they know. Students think they know the answer until they start to explain it!

• • Questioning students is one of the most effective ways to check for understanding. Remember, effective teachers ‘ask more questions, to more students, in more depth.’ We can’t assume that the knowledge of 1 or 2 individuals represents the whole class. Probe! Ask 3/4/5 questions of a learner (if required) before moving on - What? Why? How? What else? How else? What if?

• • Behaviour for Learning isn’t just ‘behaviour’ in its ‘good or bad sense’, abiding by rules/being compliant. Behaviour for learning is the behaviour we would want to see in an engaged and motivated person who enjoys what they are learning (even when it is difficult).

Please click on the appropriate CPD session from the platform menu to explore a series of slides and videos on the chosen CPD topic.