PGCE Primary Assignment- sequence of learning impact on pupil progress

Critically reflect on how the sequence of learning impacts on pupil progress. Evaluate critically the role of assessment and how different pupils’ needs are met. Advance your argument to show future improvements you would make to your teaching and how this would impact on learning.

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PLEASE NOTE: This assignment is an example and to be used as guidance. It must not be copied or you may be guilty of plagiarism, use as a guide for writing your own

Sample:

1. Pupil Progress
   Using this sequence of learning (p.3) to teach mathematics had a positive impact on pupil progress in my year one class. The final outcome of the sequence of learning was for the children to be able to “compare, describe and solve practical problems for lengths and heights” (DfE, 2013) as the national curriculum outlines this to be a statutory requirement for a child in year one and to “measure and begin to record lengths and heights” (DfE, 2013), a non-statutory requirement in the national curriculum. After daily assessment of the key worker children and assessing the home learning children’s work once back in school, it was clear the pupils had met the expectations I had hoped, based on the standards set in the national curriculum.

Teaching the unit of work as a sequence allowed me to use a mastery teaching approach. Mastery teaching is a teaching method that aims for pupils to be able to apply the concept being taught to a new problem in an unfamiliar situation (Drury, 2018). Planning a sequence of learning to ensure fluency and logical progression in learning is essential, focusing on mastering maths over time rather than in unconnected chunks. Using a mastery teaching approach, I spread the sequence of learning over two weeks allowing the learning to become engrained and as a result the children mastered the ability to compare, describe and solve problems for length and height.