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Teachers’ roles and responsibilities are underpinned by professional values. In this area you can find resources that can help teachers develop their reflective, interpersonal and communication skills. They can enhance their understanding of how people learn and gain insights into effective teaching and learning strategies.

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The resources in these areas extend the teacher’s understanding of pedagogy and what works well with learners in a range of contexts. Active learning lies at the heart of the creative and innovative approaches to teaching and learning that are explored here through video, learner and CPD activities.

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Teachers have a responsibility to enthuse and motivate learners in their chosen subject or vocational area. Teachers who stay up to date in their specialist area, keeping abreast of career opportunities and maintaining their expertise are able to support their learners to aim high and achieve their goals. Explore the resources here to stimulate professional development.

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Planning learning is a key professional responsibility. Teachers plan coherent learning programmes as members of teaching teams, within partnerships, or in isolation, for example in an outreach context. Crucially, they plan with learners to create personalised learning programmes. The resources here support some of the challenges associated with effective planning.

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Effective planning takes account of assessment for learning strategies. Teachers can develop highly effective skills in observing and understanding how learning is taking place, providing motivating feedback, and engaging with learners as partners to review progress and set goals. The resources here include a range of strategies to support learner success.

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Learners should be engaged as active partners in learning at every stage of the learner journey. In this area you can find resources that bring innovative approaches to engaging with learners from the IAG stage through to completion of the programme with an emphasis on promoting persistence and progression.

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Teachers have the responsibility to convey positive values in equality, diversity and inclusion. Learners can expand their horizons and widen aspirations when they understand that career and learning opportunities are accessible and not bound by stereotype or tradition. The resources in this area support professional practice and provide practical activities to use with learners.

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The resources in Gold dust have been selected by teacher educators from the LSIS Teaching and Learning Programme resources. They can be used, adapted or developed in a very wide range of contexts. The guidance and evaluation templates here will help you to get the most out of the resources.

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Although by no means an exhaustive list, the links here take you to some essential websites for teacher educators. Visit them regularly to stay abreast of policy issues; stimulating areas of professional discussion and resource updates.

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