Our weekly training sessions follow our United Teaching Primary curriculum which covers pedagogy, assessment, curriculum, behaviour and professional behaviour. Our curriculum is sequenced to support trainees to become the best teacher they can be and we have mapped our progression to align with a trainee’s experience as they progress throughout the year. Some key themes are revisited throughout the training year, such as reading, as we want our trainees to be extremely competent in teaching these aspects of the curriculum.
All of our training sessions are delivered by experts in their field (such as English and maths advisors) and the focus of each week’s training directly links to the trainee’s in class teaching the following week. This means that there is clear impact between the training a trainee receives and what this looks like in the classroom. Weekly mentoring and observations will also have a focus on the training received so trainees can continuously improve throughout their journey.
In the first 6 weeks of the programme we will look at:
- High expectations, behaviour and classroom routines
- Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction and quality-first teaching
- Understanding the primary curriculum
- Lesson planning
- Assessing learning and how to check for understanding
The Salaried Primary route is extremely competitive. Please contact us for more information on how to be successful in applying for this route or to discuss alterative routes available to you: train@unitedteaching.org.uk