Intensive Training and Practice
Develop your practice through focused training
Intensive Training and Practice (ITaP) gives you dedicated time to explore important areas of teaching in greater depth. Across four focused ITaPs, you’ll develop your understanding, observe effective practice and put what you learn into action. Training takes place across our partnership schools, training centre and your main placement school.4 focused ITaPs
Each experience focuses on an important area of classroom practice, helping you connect evidence and theory with what happens in the classroom.
Four focused experiences
Each ITaP focuses on a key aspect of teaching, with opportunities in both primary and secondary settings.01
High expectations and routines
Across four focused ITaPs, you’ll develop your understanding, observe effective practice and put what you learn into action. Training takes place across our partnership schools, training centre and your main placement school.
Primary
Focus on how routines help schools set and maintain high expectations.
Venue: Portland Spencer Academy
Secondary
Focus on how routines help schools set and maintain high expectations.
Venue: Derby Moor Spencer Academy
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Adaptive teaching and scaffolds
Understanding how teachers respond to different needs and reduce barriers to learning.
Primary
Learn how teachers support all students to reduce barriers to learning.
Venue: Wyndham Spencer Academy
Secondary
Learn how teachers support all students to reduce barriers to learning.
Venue: George Spencer Academy
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Curriculum planning
Exploring how effective curricula are planned, sequenced and translated into classroom teaching.
Primary
Learn how a writing curriculum is planned and sequenced and create a medium-term plan of your own.
Venue: Main Placement School
Secondary
Learn how your subject curriculum is planned and sequenced and create a medium-term plan of your own.
Venue: Rushcliffe Spencer Academy and Main Placement School
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Diagnostic assessment
Using assessment to understand what pupils know and inform what happens next.Primary
Learn strategies for finding out what students have understood and the best ways to respond in the Maths classroom.
Venue: Main Placement School
Secondary
Learn strategies for finding out what students have understood and the best ways to respond in the classroom.
Venue: Main Placement School