Please see page 8 of the handbook for further details.

The Weekly Review follows the same format each week. The agenda is below and, in discussing the items on it, trainees and CMs consider:

• how the trainee’s practice has developed over the past week;
• the progress of the children they have taught.

If there is a placement theme that week, the trainee’s progress in this area should also be discussed.

The Agenda

1. Review trainee progress by:
   • considering the trainee’s reflection on their own progress;
   • discussing the evidence that supports the trainee’s progress (see p.23);
   • reviewing the extent to which last week’s targets have been met;
   • updating the Tracker in the appropriate areas;
   • consider anything arising from informal feedback and the weekly lesson observation.
2. Review pupil progress by:
   • identifying evidence of pupil progress and learning over time using the full range of evidence, including lesson observations and children’s work;
   • discuss what differences the trainees’ teaching has made and why;
   • reviewing the evidence that trainee has brought to the meeting;
   • considering how the progress made by the trainee, in (1) above, has facilitated pupil progress;
   • review the next steps in learning for the children and the best ways to help them towards these (with trainees referring back to their annotated planning and assessment notes).
3. Identify the strengths within the trainee’s practice and the areas for development.
4. From the areas for development, identify the most significant to be the Focus Improvement Area (see p.9)
5. Set targets and what will help the trainees to progress towards these (firstly for the FIA and then for any additional areas of development) e.g.:
   • Observing and/or meeting expert practitioners, including CM.
   • Deconstructing good practice with the CM.
   • Working with a specific group of children.
   • Personal reading.
   • Revisiting notes from university or other training sessions.
6. Discuss findings from PDAs completed during the week and those which should be looked at next week.