What is teaching?
The range of professional duties performed by teachers is wide and extensive. At the heart of a teacher's role is the promotion of learning for all pupils.
What skills do teachers need?
Teachers need to:
- know how to employ the most effective teaching and learning strategies to enable children and young people to make progress
- be able to assess what their pupils know, understand and can do, and then use this assessment to plan future teaching and learning activities
- have high expectations for all their pupils, of whatever class, race, gender or ability
- know how to motivate their pupils - to do this, they need to be effective role models for the pupils they teach.
If you choose to study at Kingston we will help you acquire the knowledge and confidence to apply these skills effectively in the classroom.
What do trainee teachers have to achieve?
The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) has set out the standards which all trainee teachers have to meet in order to be awarded Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
The standards cover three areas:
- professional values and practice
- knowledge and understanding
- teaching.
You can find out more on the TDA website.
