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Gifted and Talented e-learning modules for leading teachers
Course details
- Course Owner: Carol Singh
- Total Members: 1324
- Course Type: Public
E-learning modules for Gifted and Talented (G&T) leading teachers provide opportunities to reflect on G&T issues and approaches to addressing them, to practise strategies which have been found to be effective and to develop action plans for your own context. The modules also provide links to a range of resources and exemplification. Module 1: Teaching and learning, is part of the gap task between face-to-face training provided by LAs.
Other modules cover identification, leadership, good practice, working with parents and carers, transfer and transition, learners with particular needs, learning beyond the classroom, career development, Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stages 1 and 2, primary science, English, mathematics, secondary science, music, PE and sport and EAL.
Course module
- Core module 1: Teaching and learning
- This module will support you as a leading teacher to reflect on your own
practice and will underpin and model your work on leading the improvement of
G+T education across the school.
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- Core module 2: Identification
- This module will give you a good understanding of the challenges, issues, principles and processes behind identifying G+T pupils in your school. It will support you in your role as a leading teacher in working with colleagues on identification.
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- Core module 3: Taking the lead in G+T
This module will support you as a leading teacher to reflect on your own practice and will underpin and model your work on leading the improvement of G+T education across the school.
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- Module 4: Accessing and extending knowledge and understanding to support G+T
- This module introduces you to some information and resources that can
support you in identifying and exemplifying good practice in your role.
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- Module 5: Career development for G+T learners
- This module will examine ways in which you can help teachers provide
independent challenge for their learners and consider the specific
needs of G+T pupils which may relate to career development.
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- Module 6: Transfer and Transition
- This
module is designed to support leading teachers in developing successful
Primary-to-Secondary school transfer programmes, from an initial audit
of needs, through development, to successful and ongoing implementation.
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- Module 7: G+T learners with particular needs
- This module will encourage you to challenge some of the assumptions
that you may make about identifying, recognising and developing
appropriate strategies to meet the needs of an identified group of
G+T pupils.
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- Module 8: Learning beyond the classroom
- In this module you will learn what learning beyond the classroom means
and consider this in the context of G+T provision in your school,
and what may need to be developed to enhance provision for G+T
learners
to complement effective G+T provision in the classroom.
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- Module 9: Working with parents and carers
- This module is about working with parents and carers. It discusses
strategies for working with parents and carers and looks at the
challenges you might come across.
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- Module 10: English
- This
module will explore what we mean by gifted in English, how you identify
and develop gifted pupils, and develop an approach to measuring impact
that aligns with your objectives and strategies.
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- Module 11: Learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage
- This module consists of e-learning introductions to key concepts
and skills for effective teaching and learning for G+T children in
EYFS, structured activities and reflection to apply those concepts in
your school, and access to resources to help you take the learning
further.
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- Module 12: Key Stages 1 and 2
- This module consists of: introductions to key concepts and skills for
effective teaching and learning for G+T children; structured
activities and reflection to support you in applying those concepts in
your school; access to resources to help you take the learning further;
and support in the role of leading teacher for G+T children.
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- Module 13: Primary science
- This module will examine using a high degree of challenge to benefit
all pupils, including the gifted; how to increase challenge and
encourage higher order thinking through discussion, scientific enquiry
and focused recording as well as how to map classroom outcomes to the
Institutional Quality Standards (IQS) and Classroom Quality Standards
(CQS).
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- Module 14: Mathematics
- This module will support you as a class teacher and as a leading teacher of G+T mathematics pupils.
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- Module 15: PE and sport
- This
module will support you as a subject leader or leading teacher of G+T to
improve provision and outcomes for G+T learners in PE and sport.
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- Module 16: Supporting gifted and talented learners with English as an additional language (EAL)
- This
module will support you as a leading teacher of G+T in working with
colleagues to improve provision and outcomes for all G+T pupils, in
particular those with English as an additional language (EAL).
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- Module 17: Supporting gifted and talented provision in secondary science
- This
module will support you as a leading teacher of G+T in working with
colleagues to further develop your G+T provision. It provides information,
resources and activities to enhance the provision, pedagogy and personalisation
your school offers its G+T pupils in science.
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- Module 18: Supporting gifted and talented learners in music
- This
module will support you as a leading teacher or as a class teacher in
reflecting on the current practice and provision in music for gifted and
talented pupils in your school.
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See also
- Classroom Quality Standards (CQS): An introduction
- Gifted and talented Black pupils’ achievement: Continuing professional development (CPD) module and briefing pack
- Identifying gifted and talented learners – getting started
- Local authority quality standards (LAQS)
- Local authority quality standards (LAQS) for Gifted and Talented education: A self-evaluation and improvement resource
- Narrowing the Gaps: from data analysis to impact – The golden thread
