Task 3:Working with a whole class
In this task you will need to demonstrate:
• how you worked with the teacher to plan your contribution
• your own planning for the work
• how you carried out the work, and
• how you evaluated your personal learning.
As with tasks 1 and 2, the specific example that you select will depend upon the needs of the pupils
concerned, and on your own area of expertise. For an interpretation of ‘whole class’, you should
consult the handbook Guidance to the standards. ‘Whole class’ is not defined by an absolute or
precise number of pupils or students. The size of a whole class will be determined by the context in
which you work; for example, class sizes in special schools and sixth form settings may be very
different from those in primary and secondary settings.What defines whole-class activities is your
role in introducing, managing and completing a topic or task, and the degree and complexity of the
organisation and management of learning and behaviour within relatively large groups of pupils or
students with diverse needs. However, in settings where ‘whole class’ is usually taken to mean an
individual learner – for example, a pupil referral unit (PRU) – there is still a requirement for you to
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demonstrate you have the skills to support learning in a larger group. If this is not possible within
your setting, your regional provider of assessment or local authority may be able to arrange a
placement in another setting where it would be possible for you to demonstrate this standard.
You will notice that standard 3.3.5 requires you to demonstrate that you can work with a whole class
without the assigned teacher being present.While you must be able to do this, and will need to
demonstrate that you have met this standard at some point in the assessment process, it is not
necessary that the assigned teacher is absent for the situation you describe in task 3. It might be
sensible, for example, to use task 4 to describe a situation in which you led an activity while the
teacher was elsewhere.
Once you have identified an appropriate example, you will need to:
• complete the response sheet for task 3
• keep a copy of all relevant documents, including your planning and your contribution to the
assessment of the pupils, and
• complete appropriate parts of your assessment grid (F9).