Welcome to TY: Running a Senior Cycle Subject Sampler. This short course has four lessons of about 30 minutes. You know your TY programme; this course is about one part of it that is easy to get wrong: subject tasters.
In this first lesson you rate your confidence, see where subject sampling sits in the TY Programme Statement, and study a sampler planner filled in for an invented school. Then you note where your own sampler will sit. Your survey, reflections and plan across the four lessons compile into a downloadable Professional Learning Portfolio when you finish.
Before the presentation, rate your confidence on the five areas this course develops. There are no right answers. You will rate the same five statements at the end of the course, so you can compare each rating with your first.
Watch this presentation on where subject sampling sits in the TY Programme Statement: the four Student Dimensions, sampling among their student experiences, the elective modules and their time, the shape of a TY week, the limit on early teaching, and the TY Core Team.
Study this sampler planner, filled in for an invented school with four TY class groups. Read the notes on each choice.
Download the blank planner to use for your own school: TY sampler planner (Word).
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