Pre – Placement Year 3 Spring University of Hull BA Primary Teaching Mentors’ Meeting January 2015

Key Dates Induction dates: Mon 12 th Jan – Friday 16 th Jan Block placement: Mon 19th Jan - Friday 20 th March Review Grade A: Friday 30 January – Joint observation Partnership Meeting: Tues 3 rd Feb Scarb campus 1:30 -3:30pm Partnership Meeting: Weds 4 th Feb The Lawns 10am -12pm Review Grade B: Friday 27 February – PT observation Potential external visit: Monday 9 th March to Friday 13 th march Final Grade: Friday 20 March - Joint observation

Placement within Programme Placement Handbook and Overview – provides guidance for the placement with the key activities and teaching percentage requirements. University expectations – in terms of trainee monitoring and assessment, review grades and details of key dates. Revised documentation – procedures for weekly review meetings, lesson evaluations and cause for concern procedures.

People and their Roles Programme Director – Sue Pierce. School Experience Coordinator –Kay Fraser Primary Partnership Coordinator – Cecily Simpson Schools Liaison Officer – Kim Metcalfe Placement Tutors – Megan Murray, Nikki Mountain, Yvonne Wilson, PAT – Partnership Area Tutor: Sarah Teasdale Within school Mentor Class Teacher

Website Google – Hull Primary Partnership Handbook Contact details Dates Documents

Conduct and Absence Information in front of handbook Conform to school discipline system Inform school of absence, leave message at University – repeated for each day of absence. Maintain record of attendance

Weekly meeting and review Agree when and where with trainee at start. Private, uninterrupted, appropriate length of time. Questions - how do they know? What evidence? What is the impact on pupils re children’s learning and progress? Weekly meeting and review form – handbook and web page. Trainee to complete relevant sections of form. Consider personal progress, own subject knowledge, impact of training, pupil progress. Weekly meeting and review form - focus for discussion and targets.

Weekly meeting to include Progress of trainee in meeting their previous week’s targets and their annotation of the TDP. Trainee’s evaluations from own perspective, key successes and personal progress including lesson observations. Overall progress made by the children. Future targets and the actions required to meet these.

Standards Trainees annotation of the progress against all standards each week prior to the weekly review. Mentors refer to the graded criteria booklets. Focus is on all 8 standards in professional discussions and meetings. Standard 7 behaviour log each week.

Monitoring and Assessment Trainee will have a file with designated weekly sections. Discuss with the trainee how the responsibility for assessment will build up over the placement. Trainee should be encouraged to use school’s systems and procedures for assessment from the beginning. Weekly summative report to feed into mentor and review meeting. Any concerns contact your placement tutor.

Placement Tutor Involvement Two joint observations will take place. The initial visit to inform grades for review point A and the final joint observation to inform final grades and completion of TDP. Completion of partnership QA information Third visit mid way through placement to be arranged. Attendance at Partnership meetings mid way through placement. An opportunity to liaise with the placement tutor discuss progress, concerns and plan ahead. Trainee responsibility for communication. Communication is key!

Issues Raise with your Placement Tutor as soon as possible Placement Tutor informs School Experience Coordinator Actions decided Placement Tutor liaises with the school. Outcome monitored by Placement Tutor and School Experience Coordinator Handbooks contain further information

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