COVER SUPERVISORS’ TRAINING
SHS/EC

Target Group: Cover Supervisors in High Schools.

This is a 5 day course and a breakdown of each day is listed below.

Thursday 4 September 2008
SESSION ONE: Remit of the post of cover supervisor.
Objective: to clarify and explore the expectations and boundaries of the role.
Areas covered: job specifications, union guidance, boundaries with Teaching Standards.

SESSION TWO: How to start a lesson. Steve Hoyle
Objective: to learn communication techniques.
Areas covered: how to establish order, boundaries and routines..

SESSION THREE: National Curriculum.
Objective: to communicate essential detail about content and levels.
Areas covered: core subjects, foundation subjects, coursework, assessment

Tasks for 5 September:
a) to observe 2 lessons
b) to research the school timetable to find out i) about the year 9 curriculum ii) what choices pupils have in year 10.

Monday 8 September 2008
SESSION FOUR: Strategies for a purposeful lesson without lesson content.
Objective: to explore a range of activities to be used in class if work is not set.
Areas covered: background resources

SESSION FIVE: Creating a favourable learning environment.
Objective: to communicate best practice.
Areas covered: expectations, preparation for the taking of the class

SESSION SIX: When things go wrong. SH
Objectives: to explore why things go wrong, to look at best practice for regaining control.
Areas covered: pupil expectations, common pitfalls, strategies for managing behaviour.

Tuesday 6 January 2009
SESSION 7: What makes a good lesson? SH
Objective: to enable participants to judge the success of a lesson they cover.
Areas covered: judging learning, judging progress.

SESSION 8: Every Child Matters.
Objective: to communicate the rationale and working of the ECM agenda in schools.
Areas covered: linking of education, social services and medical services for the benefit of children; what ECM means in school.

SESSION 9: Special Needs.
Objective: to communicate the philosophy of SEN and how it works in schools.
Areas covered: School Action, Action Plus, Statements, Individual Education Plans.

Tasks for 7 January:
a) to observe 2 lessons
b) to speak to the school’s SENCO to find out how SEN is structured and managed.

Thursday 8 January 2009
SESSION 10: Assessment for Learning. SH
Objective: to communicate the theory behind AFL and how it contributes to a purposeful lesson.
Areas covered: questioning, recapping, modelling.

SESSION 11: Protecting yourself.
Objective: to communicate principles of health and safety in the classroom; to communicate best practice in how to avoid allegations from pupils.
Areas covered: risk assessment, professional behaviour.

SESSION 12: Progression in your career.
Objective: to communicate routes into higher education, teaching and other careers in education.
Areas covered: qualification routes, GTP, PGCE.

Tasks for July conference:
a) Report on a good lesson you have done; production of a resource pack.

Date to be arranged for July 2009
SESSION 13: A positive approach to behaviour.
Objective: to show the importance of positive messages to pupils
Areas covered: theories of learning

SESSIONS 14 and 15: Delegates’ contributions (and from experienced cover supervisors)