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Sep 2, 2012 · Subjects are not exactly in retreat but the development of diploma courses certainly reduces numbers taking some traditional subjects and many secondary schools are developing KS3 courses which blend subjects, especially for lower attaining pupils.
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- Subject Knowledge Development
- How This Supported The Trainees’ Progress in TS 2, 4, 5 and 6
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In term two of his training year, a history trainee had made good progress in establishing high expectations and clear routines (secure in TS1). He had built excellent relationships with pupils in his key stage 4 class and behaviour was good (secure in TS7). He was regularly planning lessons, the activities of which appeared to clearly relate to th...
Initially, my work was for him to focus on these building blocks of knowledge that would enable pupils to fully understand such key questions, as in the example above of the development of the cattle industry in 19th century USA: A sense of the geography of the industry. For example, they need to know where Texas (the starting point of the cattle t...
TS4 requires trainees to plan and teach well-structured lessons. Our work together dug deeper into the specific items of knowledge that pupils needed to answer a broad causation question about the development of the cattle industry. This enabled the trainee to build on an already effective aspect of his practice in which he thought carefully about ...
Lee is a teacher educator working for Teach First in the East Midlands. He's also a Teach First Ambassador, who joined our programme to train as a teacher in 2004. Find him on Twitter @LeeDonaghy
We train thousands of new teachers each year, but this is only around 5% of all new teachers. So we wanted to share some of the thinking behind our teacher education in this series of blogs. We hope these blogs will be helpful for the thousands of schools that support new trainee teachers each year, and act as a starting point for conversations wit...
Feb 22, 2018 · A teacher’s subject knowledge is incredibly important. There are many things we can do to develop this subject knowledge ourselves and with the help of our colleagues, including: 1. Plan in time to develop your subject knowledge in the same way you would set aside time for marking or developing resources.
Nov 13, 2023 · Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) represents a fundamental idea in education that underscores the importance of teachers having an integrated understanding of the material they are teaching and the most effective ways to teach that material to their students.
- Chris Quigley
Oct 13, 2020 · This blogpost has one central argument. Given all of the ‘sound and fury’ surrounding the impact of Covid-19 on education, it is perhaps more important than ever for educators to focus on the core ideas that define a subject.
If students understand why information is important and useful, if their curiosity is piqued, if they are appropriately challenged, and if they perceive relevance of the content, they will be willing to exert more effort and will perform better as a result (3, 4).
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The theoretical underpinnings above have a variety of implications for the role of metacognition in student achievement. There are several known benefits of metacognition: Students with stronger metacognitive skills have higher academic achievement, and they are more expert-like in their learning.
