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- Learning walks: guidance, templates and questions Your one-stop-shop to plan and carry out a successful learning walk, using our suggested focus areas, checklist and templates. Get to grips with how to successfully analyse your findings and plan future actions.
- Topic: Lesson observations and learning walks
- Pupil voice questions: teaching and learning Use our question banks for EYFS, primary and secondary pupils to help you talk to your pupils about their learning in class or in focus groups.
- Evaluating the primary school classroom: checklist Download and adapt this checklist to help you evaluate the physical space in your classrooms. It can help you identify areas for improvement, such as displays and organisation, to create a positive classroom learning environment.
- Behaviour for learning: guidance and examples Find out how you can support your children to develop behaviours for learning. See examples of how other schools do it.
- Learning mentor: model job description Download our model job description and person specification, and see examples from primary and secondary schools, to help find your new learning mentor.
- SEN teaching assistant: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an SEN teaching assistant (TA) and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- EYFS: evaluating the learning environment Download our Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning environment audit to assess the indoor and outdoor learning spaces in your early years provision.
- Classroom provision for pupils with SEND: checklist Download our checklist to determine whether your classrooms are suitable learning environments for pupils with SEND, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ADHD, dyslexia, physical needs and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD).
- How to improve learning by reducing cognitive load Understand why pupils get overwhelmed with information, and learn strategies to maximise learning by reducing cognitive load. Download our handout to use in CPD sessions and during lesson observations.
- Remote learning policy: model You're only expected to consider offering remote learning if your school can't open safely, or if pupils are able to learn but are unable to physically attend school. Adapt our model policy to set out your expectations in these situations.
- Effective child-initiated learning in the EYFS Learn what constructive child-led learning practice looks like and how to find a good balance of child-initiated and adult-led activities. Use our expert's guidance to understand how to provide challenge to your pupils in the early years during child-initiated learning.
- Learning support assistant (LSA): model job description Download our model job description and person specification for an LSA delivering 1:1 support and adapt it to meet your school's needs.
- Teaching and learning policy: model and examples Adapt our model to help you set your own teaching and learning policy for your school or trust. Also see examples from primary, secondary and special schools.
- Providing quality outdoor learning in the EYFS Understand your requirements around outdoor learning, and see how to get the most out of your outdoor space and how to make sure it complements your indoor provision.
- Reviewing the quality of your teaching and learning Use a range of sources to get a reliable overall picture of the quality of teaching and learning in your school. Download our tracking and summary sheets to record and communicate the outcomes of your monitoring activities, and understand how to act on this evidence to improve your offer.
- Higher level teaching assistant (HLTA): qualification requirements Learn what qualification requirements you should use when hiring an HLTA, and how you can support a TA to step up.
- Remote and hybrid learning: when and how should you use it? Understand the requirements around providing remote learning, when you should offer it and what you need to do to prepare. Plus, read tips about how to make remote learning work best for your school.
- Collection and walking home alone policies (primary) Find out what to include in your collection and walking home alone policy. See examples of policies from primary schools.
- Teaching assistant or HLTA: model job description Download our model job description and person specification for a teaching assistant (TA) or higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) and adapt it to reflect your school's context.