CPD with Teachers TV: professional development for cover supervisers

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CPD with Teachers TVprofessional development
for cover supervisers

• Sarah Wilkinson
• Canons High School

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Project outline

• Professional development for cover supervisors
• A Day in the Life a 15 minute programme for
  supply teachers
• Focussing on classroom organisation and behaviour
  management
• Led by an assistant headteacher

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Cover supervisors to identify

• Good practice
• Not such good practice
• Ways of avoiding problems
• Any other issues

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Discussion points

• Establishing quiet authority
• Engaging the students
• Punctuality
• Access to classrooms
• Class lists with photographs
• Seating plans
• Being sensitive to the needs of pupils

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• Using the schools policies
• Coping with insufficient/inappropriate work
• Staying calm
• Projecting ones voice without shouting
• Being clear and polite
• Afternoon lessons can be more difficult
• Organised dismissal

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Outcomes for the school

• Class lists/photographs/seating plans
• Subject strengths of cover supervisors
• Classroom access
• Consistent system for setting work
• Value of cover work
• How is the cover supervisor role explained to
  students?

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Outcomes for Teachers TV

• The programme included relevant information but a
  dedicated programme for cover supervisors would
  be good, particularly during induction.
• The website could have links to support materials
  related to the issues raised in the programme.

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• 15 minutes was an appropriate length and the pace
  was good.
• It would be interesting to learn more about the
  cover manager role. What feedback is sought, if
  any, and from whom? What action is taken to
  avoid problems and make things go smoothly?