Teacher CPD Secondary schools

TY: Running a Senior Cycle Subject Sampler

Run subject tasters in Transition Year that give students a feel for a senior cycle subject without starting its specification.

2 hours
4 short lessons
Online, at your own pace
Certificate

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About this course

A two-hour course for TY coordinators, guidance counsellors and the teachers who run subject tasters in Transition Year. The TY Programme Statement gives sampling of senior cycle subjects a place among the elective modules, and says TY should not be used to spread a Leaving Certificate subject specification over three years. The course shows how to plan a sampler with your TY Core Team, design tasters that give students a feel for a subject without starting it, describe four subjects with new specifications from their own documents, and build a reflection after each taster into the TY portfolio, so students choose their subjects better informed. Every template is yours to download and adapt.

What you will be able to do

By the end you will be able to place a subject sampler in your TY programme within your school's elective time, design tasters that sample a subject without teaching its specification early, describe Engineering, Applied Graphics and Design, Accounting and Computer Science from their own specifications, and help students reflect on each taster in their TY portfolio before they choose their fifth-year subjects.

What's in the course

4 lessons, about 30 minutes each. Take them in order, whenever suits you.

Where subject sampling sits in the TY Programme Statement, how to plan a sampler within your school's elective time, how to design tasters that sample a subject without starting it, what the four subjects' specifications say, and how students reflect on each taster before they choose.

1 Sampling in the TY Programme Statement Free preview 30 min
2 Designing a Taster That Samples a Subject Without Starting It 30 min
3 The Four Subjects at a Glance 30 min
4 Reflecting and Choosing 30 min

What you get

A certificateFor 2 hours of professional learning, when you finish.

Your own portfolioEverything you write in the course collects in one place to keep.

Templates to adaptEvery template in the course is yours to download and adapt.

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