Throughout the course, you will develop the essential skills you need for a successful career as a Food and Nutrition teacher
You will learn how to manage and deliver practical lessons, ensure cookery is efficient and safe, and develop your ability to plan and structure engaging lessons. You’ll also gain expertise in creating an effective food curriculum, assessing and tracking student progress, and managing the classroom environment.
This module will enable you to develop subject-specific knowledge, skills and behaviours across the Food and Nutrition secondary curriculum as you begin your journey to become a qualified teacher. You will learn how to take a research-informed approach to developing key skills, including lesson planning, resource design, assessment and pedagogical strategies, as set out in the current Department for Education’s Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF). The module also goes beyond the ITTECF in enabling you to develop the attributes set out in Roehampton’s 4Rs which are; resilience, respectfulness, resourcefulness and the ability to reflect on what you have done.
Throughout the module, you will be encouraged to think critically, in order to become a confident, autonomous professional. You will integrate your developing understanding of how to teach your subject with the wider understanding of how to be a teacher through the Professional Studies module.
The module should be read in conjunction with the Teaching Experience module to allow you to practise these emerging skills.
The module aims to teach you to:
- acquire the knowledge and skills set out in of the Department for Education's ITTECF;
- audit your existing understanding of the Food and Nutrition curriculum and build strategies for developing subject knowledge;
- develop a critical awareness of current debates about the content, value and purpose of Food and Nutrition within the curriculum and link these to classroom practice;
- deepen your understanding of how to plan for pupil progress in Food and Nutrition; generate a repertoire of appropriate assessment strategies.
- enhance your professional practice through research, reading, analysis and reflection;
- reflect on your achievements and identify areas for professional development
This module will consolidate your understanding of and ability to implement subject pedagogies. This will support you to meet the Teachers’ Standards with particular reference to Standard 3, ‘Demonstrate Good Subject and Curriculum Knowledge’.
If you have specific questions about the programme please email the Head of Secondary ITE, Ruth Seabrook.