CPD/PM structure – using professional standards for teachers as the basis for the organisation of the structure

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Relationships with children and young people teaching staff C1 Have high expectations of children and young C2 Hold positive values and attitudes and adopt high core standards people including a commitment to ensuring that they standards of behaviour in their professional role achieve their full educational potential and to establishing fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with them

Teaching Participate in activities to encourage communication Show how you promote the principles and values essential assistant and language (NVQ 2) for working with children (CWDC Induction) Show how you include people and act fairly (CWDC) Demonstrate and promote the positive values, attitudes and Standards that fit Support and respect people’s differences in your behaviour that the school expects of staff and pupils (CWDC) in with teaching day-to-day work (CWDC) standards C1,2 Contribute to supporting children’s emotional and Q1,2 social development and communication and intellectual development (NVQ 2) Contribute to planning to meet children’s developmental needs (NVQ 2) Encourage children to be creative, to explore and to investigate (NVQ 2) Support bilingual/multilingual pupils during learning activities (NVQ 2) Support any children with disabilities or SEN by providing care and encouragement (NVQ 2) Respect pupils’ social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic backgrounds and be committed to raising their educational achievement (CWDC) Treat pupils fairly and with respect and avoiding making assumptions about different cultures or backgrounds (CWDC) Build and maintain successful relationships with pupils, treating them consistently with respect and consideration and being concerned for their development as learners (CWDC) Know how to interact with pupils in ways that support their development and their ability to think and learn Support pupils in reviewing their own learning (NVQ 3) Promote pupil performance and development (NVQ 3) Professional Attributes – Frameworks teaching staff C3 Maintain an up to date knowledge and core standards understanding of the professional duties of teachers and the statutory framework within which they work, and contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the policies and practice of their workplace, including those designed to promote equality of opportunity. teaching Understand the roles and responsibilities of teachers assistant and other adults in the school and how their support Standards that fit role relates to these (CWDC) in with teaching Know the limits of their role, including when to refer standards C3, issues or people on, and to whom (CWDC) Q3 Know their role and responsibilities in relation to statutory frameworks and policies which are relevant to their role and act within them (CWDC) Know, understand and comply with procedures relating to the safeguarding of children, confidentiality and health and safety. (CWDC) Understand why it is important to follow policies and procedures and know where to find such policies and procedures (CWDC) Professional Attributes - Communicating and working with others teaching staff C4 a) Communicate effectively with C5 Recognise and respect the C6 Have a commitment to core children and colleagues. contributions that colleagues, parents collaboration and co-operative standards b) Communicate effectively with and carers can make to the working where appropriate parents and carers, conveying timely development and well-being of and relevant information about children and to raise their levels of attainment, objectives, progress and attainment well-being. c) Recognise that communication is a two way process and encourage parents and carers to participate in discussions about the progress, development and well-being of children. teaching Establish respectful, professional Support learning activities and Be clear about own job role and assistant relationships with colleagues, parents, promote independent learning (NVQ responsibilities and carry them out carers and other adults (CWDC) 3) effectively (CWDC) teaching Work collaboratively with colleagues Liaise sensitively with parents and Work with your manager, or other assistant and know when to seek help and carers, when appropriate, and relevant person, to agree and follow a Standards that advice (CWDC) recognise their role in pupils’ professional development plan fit in with Communicate effectively with pupils, development and learning (CWDC) (CWDC) teaching staff and other adults (CWDC) Understand the valuable role families standards C4- Understand potential barriers to and carers play in supporting their 6, communication and use strategies to children so they can achieve positive Q4-6 help overcome them (CWDC) outcomes (CWDC) Contribute to effective team practice Understand why children might and the development of the work team behave in unexpected ways (CWDC) (NVQ 3) Understand the contribution family, Know who you are accountable to and caring and social networks make to who is accountable to you (as the development of children. (CWDC) appropriate) in your working environment (CWDC) Communicate with children in clear, jargon-free language, without patronising them (CWDC) Professional Attributes - Personal professional development teaching staff C7 Evaluate own performance and C8 Have a creative and constructively C9 Act upon advice and feedback and core standards be committed to improving own critical approach towards innovation, be open to coaching and mentoring. practice through appropriate being prepared to adapt their practice professional development where benefits and improvements are identified. teaching Understand the importance of Be able to improve own practice and assistant continued professional development take opportunities to do so (CWDC) Understand the opportunities for your Standards that fit (CWDC) career to progress and identify who in with teaching Reflect on practice and take part in can help you make the most of those standards C7-9, continuing professional opportunities. (CWDC) Q7-9 development (NVQ 3) Work with manager, or other relevant person, to agree and follow a professional development plan (CWDC) Professional Knowledge and Understanding - Teaching and Learning teaching staff C10 Have a good, up-to-date, working knowledge core standards and understanding of a range of teaching, learning and behaviour management strategies and know how to use and adapt them, including how to personalise learning and provide opportunities for all learners to achieve their potential. teaching Understand how to support pupils in lessons and assistant what the intended outcomes are for the pupils they to link with support (CWDC) teaching Understand the need to adapt activities and standards C10, experiences so individual children (SEN or with a Q10 disability) can take part (CWDC) Interest, motivate and involve pupils, providing encouragement and support for them as they learn (CWDC) Professional Knowledge and Understanding - Assessment and monitoring teaching staff C11 Know the assessment C12 Know a range of C13 Know how to use local C14 Know how to use core standards requirements and approaches to and national statistical reports and other arrangements for the assessment, including the information to evaluate the sources of external subjects/curriculum areas they importance of formative effectiveness of their information related to teach, including those relating assessment teaching, to monitor the assessment in order to to public examinations and progress of those they provide learners with qualifications teach and to raise levels of accurate and attainment constructive feedback on their strengths, weaknesses, attainment, progress and areas for development, including action plans for improvement teaching Prepare to run tests and Use assessment Collect and input pupil data Know how to record assistant examinations (NVQ 2) strategies to improve (NVQ 3) information on pupils’ to link with Implement and maintain learning (NVQ 3) learning and give teaching invigilation requirements (NVQ Monitor pupils’ responses feedback to pupils, standards C11- 3) to learning in relation to teachers and other 14, Q11-13 targets or objectives set colleagues (CWDC) by the teacher and modify their approach accordingly (CWDC) Observe and report on pupil performance (NVQ 2) Evaluate teaching and learning activities and outcomes (NVQ 3) Professional Knowledge and Understanding - Subjects and curriculum teaching staff C15 Have a secure knowledge and understanding of C16 Know and understand the relevant statutory and non- core standards their subjects/curriculum areas and related pedagogy statutory curricula and frameworks, including those provided including: the contribution that their through the National Strategies, for their subjects/curriculum subjects/curriculum areas can make to cross areas, and other relevant initiatives across the age and ability curricular learning; and recent relevant developments range they teach teaching Develop, use and improve own subject knowledge to support assistant teaching and learning (NVQ 3) to link with Develop and evaluate materials to support teaching and teaching learning in a curriculum area (NVQ 3) standards Monitor and maintain supplies of curriculum resources (NVQ C15,16, Q14,15 3) Organise and maintain curriculum resources (NVQ 3) Professional Knowledge and Understanding - Literacy, numeracy and ICT teaching staff C17 Know how to use skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT to core standards support their teaching and wider professional activities teaching Know how to use ICT for their own and pupils’ benefit assistant (CWDC) to link with Support pupils with activities to develop literacy skills (NVQ teaching 2) standards C17, Support pupils with activities to develop numeracy skills Q16,17 (NVQ 2) Prepare ICT resources for use in teaching and learning (NVQ 2) Support the use of ICT resources for teaching and learning (NVQ 2) Prepare for using ICT to support pupils’ learning (NVQ 2 & 3)

Professional Knowledge and Understanding - Achievement and diversity teaching staff C18 Understand how C19 Know how to make C20 Understand the roles C21 Know when to draw on core standards children develop and how effective personal provision of colleagues such as the expertise of colleagues, the progress, rate of for those they teach, those having specific such as those with development and well- including those for whom responsibilities for learners responsibility for the being of learners are English is an additional with SEN, disabilities and safeguarding of children affected by a range of language or who have SEN other individual learning and SEN and disabilities, developmental, social, or disabilities, and how to needs, and the and to refer to sources of religious, ethnic, cultural take practical account of contributions they can information, advice and and linguistic influences diversity and promote make to the learning, support from external equality and inclusion in development and well- agencies. their teaching being of children. teaching Know and respond Promote and support the Understand the roles and Recognise when pupils are assistant sensitively to factors that inclusion of all pupils in responsibilities of teachers in danger of risk or harm, to link with can affect the way pupils learning activities and the and others who work with take action to protect them teaching learn (CWDC) wider school (CWDC) pupils and how their and report any concerns to standards C18- Contribute to the inclusion support role relates to relevant staff (CWDC) 21, Q18-20 of children with disabilities these (CWDC) Deal with accidents, or SEN (NVQ 3) Report any concerns about emergencies and illness Support learning activities pupils to relevant staff (NVQ 3) for gifted and talented (CWDC) pupils (NVQ 3) Professional Knowledge and Understanding - Health and well-being teaching staff C22 Know the current legal C23 Know the local C24 Know how to identify C25 Know how to identify core standards requirements, national arrangements concerning potential child abuse and and support young people policies and guidance on the safeguarding of neglect and follow whose progress, the safeguarding and children safeguarding procedures development or well-being promotion of the well-being is affected by changes or of children difficulties in their personal circumstances, and when to refer them to colleagues for specialist support teaching Know about laws and Know when and how to Support the safeguarding Support children in assistant national guidance relating refer a concern you have of children from abuse developing relationships to link with to protecting (safeguarding) about child protection (NVQ 3) (NVQ 3) teaching children (CWDC) (CWDC) Understand the important standards C22- Understand other agencies’ developmental needs of 25, Q21 roles and responsibilities in children you work with keeping children safe from (CWDC) harm (CWDC) Professional skills – planning teaching staff C26 Plan for progression across the C27 Design opportunities for C28 Set and assess homework, core standards age and ability range they teach, learners to develop their literacy, other out-of-class assignments and designing effective learning numeracy ,ICT and thinking and coursework for examinations, where sequences within lessons and across learning skills appropriate within their appropriate, to sustain learners’ a series of lessons informed by phase and context progress and to extend and secure subject/curriculum knowledge consolidate their learning teaching Contribute to the planning and Support pupils’ learning through ICT Escort pupils on visits and out of assistant evaluation of teaching and learning (NVQ 2& 3) school activities (NVQ 3) to link with activities (NVQ 3) Provide literacy and/or numeracy Supervise pupils on visits and out of teaching Plan and deliver teaching and support to help pupils access the school activities (NVQ 3) standards C26- learning activities under the direction wider curriculum (NVQ 3) 28, Q22-24 of a teacher (NVQ 3) Deliver teacher and learning activities NVQ 3 Professional skills – teaching teaching staff C29 Teach challenging, well-organised lessons and C30 Teach engaging and motivating lessons informed by core standards sequences of lessons across the age and ability well-grounded expectations of learners and designed to raise range they teach in which they: levels of attainment. a) use an appropriate range of teaching strategies and resources, including e-learning, which meet learners’ needs and take practical account of diversity and promote equality and inclusion b) build on the prior knowledge and attainment of those they teach in order that learners meet learning objectives and make sustained progress c) develop concepts and processes which enable learners to apply new knowledge, understanding and skills d) adapt their language to suit the learners they teach, introducing new ideas and concepts clearly and using explanations, questions, discussions and plenaries effectively e) manage the learning of individuals, groups and whole classes, modifying their teaching appropriately to suit the stage of the lesson and the needs of the learners teaching Understand how to support pupils in lessons and assistant what the intended outcomes are for the pupils they to link with support (CWDC) teaching standards C29,30 Q25

Professional skills – Assessing, monitoring and giving feedback teaching staff C31 Make effective use of C32 Provide learners, C33 Support and guide C34 Use assessment as core standards an appropriate range of colleagues, parents and learners so they can reflect part of their teaching to observation, assessment, cares with timely, accurate on their learning, identify diagnose learners’ needs, monitoring and recording and constructive feedback the progress they have set realistic and challenging strategies as a basis for on learners’ attainment, made, set positive targets targets for improvement setting challenging learning progress and areas for for improvement and and plan future teaching objectives and monitoring development become successful learners’ progress and independent learners levels of attainment teaching Observe and report on Know how to record Support learning activities assistant pupil performance and information on pupils’ building and maintaining to link with development (NVQ 3) learning and give feedback successful relationships teaching Contribute to maintaining to pupils, teachers and with pupils and being standards C31- the record keeping system other colleagues as concerned for their 34, Q26-28 (NVQ 3) appropriate (CWDC) development as learners (CWDC) Professional skills – Reviewing teaching and learning teaching staff C35 Review the effectiveness of their teaching and C36 Review the impact of the feedback provided to learners core standards its impact on learners’ progress, attainment and well- and guide learners on how to improve their attainment being, refining their approaches where necessary teaching Support the teacher in the evaluation of learning Show how your day-to-day work has been influenced by assistant activities (NVQ 2) feedback from your colleagues or the children (CWDC) to link with Monitor pupils response to learning in relation to teaching targets or objectives set by the teacher and modify standards C35,36 own approach accordingly (CWDC) Q29

Professional skills – Learning environment teaching staff C37 a) Establish a purposeful and C38 a) Manage learners’ behaviour C39 Promote learners’ self control, core standards safe learning environment which constructively by establishing and independence and cooperation complies with current legal maintaining a clear and positive through developing their social, requirements, national policies and framework for discipline in line with emotional and behavioural skills guidance on the safe guarding and the school’s behaviour policy well being of children so that learners b) Use a range of behaviour feel secure and sufficiently confident management techniques and to make an active contribution to strategies, adapting them as learning and to the school necessary to promote the self-control b) Make use of the local and independence of learners. arrangements concerning the safeguarding of children and young people c) Identify and use opportunities to personalise and extend learning through out of school contexts where possible making links between in- school learning and learning in out- of-school contexts teaching Use a range of strategies to establish Implement agreed behaviour assistant a safe, purposeful learning management strategies (NVQ 3) to link with environment and to promote good Support pupils in taking responsibility teaching behaviour and attendance (CWDC) for their learning and behaviour (NVQ standards C37- Prepare and maintain a safe 3) 39, Q30,31 environment (NVQ 2) Set up, maintain and dismantle displays (NVQ 3) Encourage children’s positive behaviour (NVQ 2) Professional skills – Team working and collaboration teaching staff C40 Work as a team member and identify core standards opportunities for working with colleagues, managing their work where appropriate and sharing the development of effective practice with them teaching Know the principles of effective teamwork (CWDC) Know the staff support or supervision arrangements available assistant Show you are well-organised, reliable and to you (CWDC) to link with dependable in your work (CWDC) teaching standards C40, Q32,33