Professional Studies
The General Professional Role of the Teacher (Professional Studies) course is concerned with those aspects of teaching and the general professional role of the teacher which are generic and relevant to the whole school, and is designed to support the professional development of all secondary trainees. The course is taught in the faculty, through a series of lectures and workshops and in partnership schools through seminars. Some of the areas covered are:
- becoming a good teacher
- the assessment of pupil learning
- inclusive special educational needs
- equal opportunities: social inclusion; gender
- language in the classroom and across the curriculum
- teaching without disruption and behaviour for learning
- parental engagement
- health education, drugs education, sex education
- citizenship education
- the role of the pastoral tutor
- children, teachers, parents and the law
- 14-19 curricular issues