School-based Induction
'Professional development yields the best results when it is long-term, school-based, collaborative, focused on students’ learning, and linked to curricula’.
(Hiebert, Gallimore and Stigler, 2002)
As part of a school's induction programme the following school-based induction activities provide NQTs with great learning oportunities:
- Mentor/NQT meetings
- Observation by NQT of other classes in own school or in another school
- Demonstration/Modelling lessons (mentor or another teacher)
- Observation of teachers teaching in NQT’s own class
- Co-teaching
- Observation of NQT by mentor
- Planning Time
- Co-planning with another teacher
- Visiting other educational settings
- Meetings with SNA, SET, EAL, Resource Teachers