January CPD - Supporting Teaching and Learning

1. CPD for the Learning Support
Department
3rd January 2017

2. Aims
• To develop the professional development of the Learning Support
department through thought provoking activities.
• 3 Golden Nuggets – three things you are going to take away from
today’s session.

3. Meeting Expectations
On your tables you have the details of an area that teachers are
judged against.
Highlight – what things can the LSA support the teacher with.

4. Assessment - Proactive Support
You have some post-it notes on your desk.
On each post it write a different question you could ask about rivers.
Now, there are some cards on your desk that represent Blooms
questioning hierarchy. Take a look at the questions you have written. Put
them where you think they would go the hierarchy.
Discuss with your group – how could you improve the questions to
challenge students further?
A lot of your work is 1 to 1 support. How could this help you to develop the
students you work with?

6. Knowledge – What is…?
Comprehension – Explain /
Identify…
Application – Can you…?
How have you…?
Analysis – Why? How?
Synthesis – How would
you improve…?
Evaluation – What is your
opinion…? How
effective…?

7. Assessment - What makes a good
response?
Take a look at the responses on your tables.
Rank them in order of best to worse.
What is good about the better ones?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqh1MRWZjms

8. A good response…
• Improves their work and understanding – progress is shown and
made.
• Shows the teacher they have understood their improvement
comment and have started to/have begun to improve in that area.
• In silence
• In green pen
• 10 mins
• Not ‘I’ll do that next time’ or ‘Thanks Miss’

9. Subject Knowledge
Please take a look at the list of questions on your table.
Can you answer any of them?
Does it matter if you can or you can’t?
Does having some subject knowledge help you to support students?
If so, how could you develop your subject knowledge in an easy and
straightforward way?

10. Learning and Progress - Resilience
Read the list of scenarios on your desk. Discuss what you would do.
Now take a look at the triangle help sheet. Could you improve your
response to make students more independent and resilient?

11. Attitudes
• What do you see as a clear routine?
• What part can you play in that?
• How do you celebrate the achievements of your students?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTghEXKNj7g&t=218s

12. Golden Nuggets
Please complete your golden nuggets – three things you have taken
away from today’s session. What you are going to try or something
that has changed your thinking or made you think about something.
Please also complete the feed back sheet. Thank you 