PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
What is meant by "Professional Studies"?
We have been given some presentations and reading which relate to being a professional teacher generally. This is the concern of professional studies: how to be a teacher, as distinguished from being a teacher of a particular subject. In these sessions, there are no discussions of the best way to teach Spanish grammar or "while loops" in Python. Such specific subject issues are dealt with in areas outside of Professional Studies. The concern of professional studies is a study of the profession of teaching, including how teachers looks after students and manage to help the learn things.
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Interview Technique
On Wednesday
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Assignment: adaptive teaching for EAL, SEND, or stretch and challenge
Assignment three is a video presentation.
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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
On Wednesday 15th October 2025, we were in our "hub schools". We talked about cognitive load theory.
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Cognitive Load Theory
On Wednesday 15th October 2025, we were in our "hub schools". We talked about cognitive load theory.
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- Still, Kristian (2022) A teacher's guide to retrieval practice
- Video lecture by Mari Cruice
- Summary Cards Example
- Accessible Booklet Example
Metacognition
"Meta" means beyond, or above. Aristotle's Metaphysics (his book) is so-named because it came after his book Physics. Cognition is the process of coming to know, particularly through thinking. Metacongnition is thinking about thinking. It involves stepping back and moving to a higher leve.
Seminal learning theories
We were given a lecture on the Philosophy of Education in the chapel on the University of Roehampton campus.
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Technology
Prof Berry delivered a lecture on the use of technology in teaching. A live demo of using an AI to answer questions was delivered.
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Wellbeing
On the Roehampton moodle there are some resources related to wellbeing. We didn't have a lecture on the topic.
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Behaviour for learning
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Classroom presence
How do you create a miniature lanyard to go around your neck? It is a small card that fits inside your access card holder.
What is the most effective way of doing this? There has to be a better way than simply trial-and-error. The way I did it first was by screenshotting the timetable on Google Sheets, pasting the image into Word, and then printing it off. You then manually test it. If it fits into the ID card holder, then well done. If it is too large, make the image on Word slightly smaller.
The process of printing, testing, and readusting repeats. When you need to print a new version, you repeat the process. Surely there is a better way.
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Adolescent development
MCO showed me how to click the "filter" icon.
Go to the folder entitled "Computer Science Dept [KS3]". Make sure you are on the KS3 folder.
Go to the tab entitled simply "7" (in the bar at the bottom).
Look at the columns carefullly: you should see one entitled Teaching Group.
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Click this hyperlink to view my instructions for how to view and manipulate student homework grades.
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Philosophy of Education
We were given a lecture on the Philosophy of Education in the chapel on the University of Roehampton campus. Carrie Winstanley gave the lecture. It was a romp through some notable names in the philosophy of education.
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Safeguarding
We were given a lecture on safeguarding, in the chapel, by Matthew Sossick. Sossick is the head of Initial Teacher Education.
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