e-Qualitas: Curriculum on a Page
Our curriculum is created using eleven key components, each of which fit together to provide a comprehensive introduction to the core body of knowledge, skills and behaviours that define great teaching.
Mental Health and Well-being
Know and Understand:
• How to develop effective strategies for resilience and self-care.
• Maintain a sustainable work-life balance.
• How to get ready for your first years in teaching and a sustainable and rewarding career beyond.
Evaluative Lesson Planning
KnowandUnderstand:
• How to use research-informed approaches that illustrate the techniques in planning, sequencing, modelling, explaining, questioning and reviewing.
• That novices need more structure early in a domain.
• How to build strong mental models for pupils.
Substantive and Disciplinary Knowledge
Know and Understand:
• That secure subject knowledge helps teachers to motivate pupils and teach effectively.
• How to anticipate common misconceptions and help pupils master important concepts.
Behaviour for Learning, Climate
KnowandUnderstand:
• How to develop learning environments, establish routines and set high expectations that support effective behaviour management.
• Understand the importance of positive relationships and how pupils’ circumstances can affect their behaviours
• Reflect with expert colleagues on behaviour and responses
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How Pupils Learn
Know and Understand:
Evidence Informed
KnowandUnderstand:
• How to make decisions to support pupil learning based on the best available evidence of ‘what works’ in education.
• How to make judgements about the right approaches for their own specific context, using research evidence to inform these decisions.
Adaptive Practices and Expertise
Know and Understand:
• How to adapt strategies within a lesson or across lessons to provide support or challenge to pupils.
• How to use information from formative assessments to inform the design of future learning sequences.
Pupil Progress
KnowandUnderstand:
• How to build on foundational knowledge before sequencing more complex content.
• How to take into account pupils’ prior knowledge when planning to introduce new information.
• How to check for understanding to gauge progress in a lesson.
Teacher as Professional
Know and Understand:
• Have a clear understanding of safeguarding and statutory responsibilities.
• Learn how to build effective professional relationships, including with parents and carers and other members of school communities.
• Develop your reflective practice through the embedded use of professional learning conversations with your mentor and other colleagues
Inclusion and Diversity
Know and Understand:
• Learn how to adapt teaching for all to create an inclusive classroom environment, including for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
• Understand the concepts of equity and equality.
Assessment
Know and Understand:
• Learn that effective assessment is critical to teaching and supporting pupils to make progress.
• Learn how to use assessment techniques in an efficient, manageable and timely manner.
• Learn which assessment techniques are particularly effective for your subject/phase