British Council - Teaching and Assessing Core Skills
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Teaching and Assessing Core Skills at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Teaching and Assessing Core Skills at FutureLearn Highlights
- Duration 4 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
- 100% online Learn at your own pace
Teaching and Assessing Core Skills at FutureLearn Course details
- This course will guide you through how to capture student achievement and plan progression in core skills. You'll work through examples of how this can be carried out in the classroom with opportunities to practice these new techniques in your own context.
- On this course, you'll learn the Skills Builder approach which breaks down core skills into manageable steps. This approach will allow you to target and understand students' progress over time.
- You'll also learn the six principles of building skills to give you a simple conceptual framework for building students' key skills that you can put into practice in your school environment.
- Once you've mastered the principles, you'll build an effective project to support the progression of core skills in your own school. You'll then share, review, and refine this project with other learners on the course and with support from the course educators.
- Reflecting on common challenges and solutions is vital, so you'll share what has worked well before creating an action plan for how you'll continue to build the core skills of your students.
Teaching and Assessing Core Skills at FutureLearn Curriculum
Introducing core skills
Introduction to the course
What are the core skills and why do they matter?
The Skills Builder framework
Breaking down the core skills into steps
Week 1 reflections
Exploring the Skills Builder framework
Introduction
The Skills Builder framework
Teaching the steps of a skill
Putting Skills Builder into action
Introducing the principles of teaching and assessing core skills
Week 2 reflections
The principles of teaching and assessing core skills
Introduction
Measuring it: assessing your students' progression in the core skills
Focusing tightly
Focusing tightly: an example
Keep practising
End of week round up and reflection
Developing an action plan to build your students' core skills
Introduction
Action planning: getting started
Action planning: concepts
Building on foundations
Week 4 reflections
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