Today was my first day back at NGS after spending term 4 at DMS. I felt like I was back in my induction period as the amount of information we received was phenomenal! There is a huge concern that we are going to get visited by Ofsted this term so our first session was all about that. We spoke about what they are looking for in terms of a good/outstanding department, and I have a lot of work to do. Therefore, for this term I need to focus on pace, student focused lessons/independent learning, progress, questioning, and effective use of TAs.
Out HOD gave us some very useful sheets from Osiris training on: a suggested model of learning to guide planning, criteria for the judging the quality of teaching, Socratic questioning (which was suggested that we not only use ourselves but give to the students to use), and features of Outstanding English Departments.
My mentor and I also met to discuss the plan for this term. I will be teaching year seven (but I'm not sure what I am going to be teaching them yet!), year eight about Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' for a reading assessment on AF5, 6 & 7; speaking and listening for AF1; creative writing covering all AFs; and morphographs, year nine exam prep for a reading exam; multi cultural poetry for a reading assessment testing AF5 and AF7, and year ten Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' focusing on relationships for a CA. Year 12 have four weeks to prepare for their exams and understandably teacher's are reluctant to give up their lessons. So after the exams have been completed and the students return I will take over the teaching. I am especially excited about teaching year 12 media as I will be teaching the conventions of a music video :)
For this week I will be observing and reintegrating myself back into school life and my focus from my mentor is to apply what I have learnt over the past four terms. Therefore, it is my responsibility to keep up with marking, folders, reports and parents evenings. The observations I receive will focus on small targets that I need to meet the following lessons.
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