Teaching and Learning

Develop Your Teaching Skills (Full Course)

Get the everyday parts of teaching right, from calm lesson starts to questions that show you who has understood.

  • 2 hours 16 minutes
  • 25 modules
  • 2.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Establish routines that cut low-level disruption at the start and end of lessons
  • Teach to the top, with scaffolding so every pupil can get there
  • Deploy teaching assistants so they add to your teaching rather than replace it
  • Use hinge questions and peer assessment to check who has understood
  • Give feedback that is meaningful, manageable and motivating

About this course

If a class takes 10 minutes to settle, a chunk of the lesson has gone before you've started. Much of what makes teaching hard happens in routine moments like that, and getting them right frees you up to teach.

This full course brings four practical courses together. You'll set up routines for lesson starts, endings and handing out books so learning time isn't lost. You'll see what high expectations look like in practice, including teaching to the top rather than the middle, and how to make better use of teaching assistants. And you'll use the five key strategies of formative assessment, from hinge questions and peer assessment to a red-and-green card that tells you when a pupil is lost.

The ideas draw on research from Dylan Wiliam, Ron Berger and the EEF, and there's advice for anyone taking a GCSE or A level class for the first time.

  • For early career teachers and teachers. Post-16, primary and secondary.

25 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    2 min
  2. Seven strategies to promote good behaviour

    1 question

    5 min
  3. Rewards and sanctions

    3 min
  4. Establishing the habit of cooperation

    2 min
  5. The beginning and end of lessons

    1 question

    3 min
  6. Managing class discussions and task transitions

    1 question

    3 min
  7. Wrap up

    1 min
  8. Introduction

    4 min
  9. Wrap up and resource pack

    1 min
  10. Quality first teaching

    6 min
  11. In-class differentiation

    2 min
  12. Making effective use of teaching assistants

    10 min
  13. Having high expectations of pupils

    11 min
  14. Introduction

    5 min
  15. Motivating pupils

    13 min
  16. The habits of a good teacher

    13 min
  17. The eight steps of excellence

    13 min
  18. Introduction

    1 min
  19. The purposes of assessment

    4 min
  20. Marking and feedback

    15 min
  21. Learning intentions and success criteria

    5 min
  22. Questioning

    8 min
  23. Activating pupils as instructional resources for each other

    5 min
  24. Activating pupils as owners of their own learning

    4 min
  25. Teaching exam classes

    8 min