Reading at Key Stage 2

Teaching reading at Key Stage 2
Principles and practices: school-based training

As Advisor: you will certainly be able to remind student teachers of what they have been taught about teaching reading when you advise them on periods of school experience. Visiting schools for this purpose also helps to keep you in touch with local developments and the contexts in which many student teachers are required to teach.

As Teacher: if possible, arrange for your group of student teachers to work in one school. Divided into groups, they can support and learn from each other and share the class teaching. This enables you to:

• Oversee their planning, making suggestions about what and how they teach;
  
• Observe them in class and give feedback;
  
• Intervene where necessary to demonstrate teaching points;
  
• Help them to record useful assessments quickly after the session;
  
• Help them to evaluate their own teaching and give constructive critical feedback to each other.

As Teacher: arrange to teach a demonstration lesson in school. You will probably need to use the hall so that all your student teachers can observe you teach. Follow up discussion should help them analyse and learn from what they have seen.