How should we deliver the Foundation Course in our school or college?
The GTT Foundation Course is designed to provide teachers with a solid grounding in how the platform works and to introduce key underlying concepts. If you're a Coordinator, there are a couple of different ways you can roll it out in your school.
In order to access the Foundation Course, simply click the "Courses" item in the menu on the left of your dashboard. This opens up your courses dashboard. Here you will have access to the core Great Teaching Toolkit courses, including the Foundation Course.
When you access the Foundation Course, you will see that it's split into two sections.
- Section 1 includes videos, activities, retrieval questions and discussion points which introduce the Great Teaching Toolkit, and create a common language with colleagues using it. We recommend you either work through this in a whole-staff / group inset or twilight session if you can, or give your team access to work through it on their own devices. There are discussion boards within this section, so if your staff work through it individually, they can still discuss with colleagues and other GTT users at the relevant points.
- Section 2 goes on to introduce many of the concepts within the science of learning. Whilst not mandatory, this key knowledge will underpin much of the learning in the other GTT courses and will be key to their professional learning. It should take three to four hours for staff to work through, and this is probably best done independently, building in time to share reflections and key-takeaways where possible.