Supporting Successful Learning in Secondary School

Improve the support you provide to students’ learning in secondary school

Engaging young people in the classroom can be a challenge for teachers and teaching assistants. Secondary school students often learn differently to younger students. This can require a different teaching approach.

On this course, you will learn how to support effective learning experiences in secondary schools, exploring the different ways secondary school students learn. You will also reflect on your own values and biases to improve your confidence and working practice.

By the end of the course you should feel more confident in your ability to support secondary school students.

This course is ideal for teaching assistants in secondary schools. It will also be of interest to teachers returning to work, newly qualified teachers, unqualified staff, as well as providing a refresher for current teachers. Parents of children in schools may also find this course useful in helping them to support and encourage their children’s learning.

This course focusses on teaching in secondary schools. If you work in a primary school, you may like to join Supporting Successful Learning in Primary Schools.

• You and others
• Welcome to Week 1
• Your point of view
• Bias in the classroom
• Types of teachers
• Review and reflect
• How people learn
• Welcome to Week 2
• Doing things differently
• More way than one way
• Expectations and fulfilling them
• Review and reflect
• The environment for learning
• Welcome to Week 3
• Teaching in reality
• Haydn scale
• Behaviour in the classroom
• Review and reflect
• Communication and language
• Welcome to Week 4
• Communication
• Listening
• The right questions
• Review and reflect