Welcome back to this SPRINT school-based continuing professional development (SBCPD) programme designed to support active teaching and learning in line with the revised Zambian school syllabus. The programme will take six terms (two school years) and will be the focus of your Teacher Group Meetings (TGM). The topics for each course will be:
Year 2
Over the past two courses you have looked in detail at classroom management for learner-centred teaching and inclusive teaching, using and improving your skills in developing pair and groupwork activities, storytelling and songs, and using appropriate questioning.
In this course you will be looking in more detail at how to decide what you want to teach and how you will know that your learners have learnt it – the use of formative assessment in your classrooms. This will involve how you monitor learning in your class and offer effective feedback to your learners, how you find out what they already know and how to assess their learning both during and following your lessons.
You should now be in the habit of recording your thoughts and ideas in your Teacher Notebook. If you haven’t yet started using your Teacher Notebook on a regular basis, you are strongly encouraged to start doing so now as this will help you to plan activities or lessons, record your response to the different activities in these resources and important aspects to note from your lessons, and reflect on how your teaching has gone and how to improve it next time. As indicated in Part 1 of this SBCPD programme, in your Teacher Notebook you can include: