Generic issues for new teachers
This section contains material on current areas of development within the subject curriculum and some practical classroom ideas. It also aims to provide support and resources for using subject contexts within the whole school curriculum.
The topics covered are:
- The new secondary curriculum
- Accessing first-hand knowledge - supporting teachers with sourcing and evaluating information from websites, paper-based rersources and real businesses.
- Approaches to teaching and learning taking into accoutn the different ways that pupils prefer to learn
- Creating the right classroom environment, highlighting the importance of creating a good learning environment and to consider the way a classroom looks and the first impression that it makes on students and colleagues.
- Opportunities to develop an understanding of the place of creativity in teaching and learning in business studies
- The holistic and pervasive way in which differentiation influences our teaching and helps us to develop good practice within a business classroom.
- Ideas for trainee and new teachers to find their own solutions to managing behaviour
- Five activiites to enhance understanding of personalised learning
- Practical training Ideas which includes aspects of teaching enterprise through an enterprise day
- Examination of a variety of strategies to overcome learner difficulties
- Ideas for effective use of the Virtual Learning Environment
