Our Teaching Framework
Consistent Standards. Responsive Teaching. Active Engagement. Impactful Design.
At New Moston Primary School, we believe that high-quality teaching is one of the most important influences on a child’s achievement and development.
Our Teaching Framework sets out the principles that guide classroom practice across the school. It gives staff a shared understanding of what effective teaching looks like and helps us ensure that every child experiences consistently high expectations, appropriate support and purposeful learning.
The framework sits within our wider approach to curriculum and school improvement and reflects our values of Growth, Standards, Attitude and Pride.
What is the Teaching Framework?
Our Teaching Framework provides a clear and consistent approach to teaching across New Moston.
It supports teachers to reflect on and develop their practice, while giving school leaders a shared framework for professional development, coaching and improvement.
Most importantly, it helps us ensure that teaching responds to the needs of the children in front of us.
Our Four Teaching Pillars
Consistent Standards
“Every child experiences high expectations.”
We establish clear and consistent expectations across classrooms so that children understand what successful learning looks and feels like.
This includes:
- clear routines and purposeful starts to lessons;
- high-quality modelling and worked examples;
- consistent expectations for behaviour and learning habits;
- appropriate use of visual supports and learning resources; and
- high standards of professional practice from adults.
Responsive Teaching
“Every child’s learning needs are understood and addressed.”
Teaching responds to what children know, understand and need next.
Teachers continually assess learning and adapt their teaching where necessary, while maintaining ambition and high expectations.
This includes:
- checking understanding throughout lessons;
- questioning that probes and deepens thinking;
- timely feedback and in-lesson adjustment;
- carefully chosen scaffolds that support independence; and
- adapting teaching in response to prior learning and emerging need.
Active Engagement
“Every child is a participant in their learning.”
We want children to think, contribute, question and take an active role in their learning.
This includes:
- high levels of participation;
- purposeful discussion and questioning;
- opportunities for both collaborative and independent learning;
- strategies that encourage children to explain their thinking; and
- developing confidence, curiosity and positive learning habits.
Impactful Design
“Every child’s learning journey is planned with purpose.”
Teaching is carefully designed so that learning builds progressively over time.
Lessons are connected to the wider curriculum and planned with a clear understanding of what children need to know, remember and be able to do.
This includes:
- clear learning intentions;
- carefully sequenced teaching;
- retrieval and deliberate practice;
- anticipating misconceptions; and
- using assessment to inform future teaching.
How We Develop Teaching
Our Teaching Framework is used to support:
- professional dialogue and reflection;
- coaching and continuing professional development;
- monitoring and evaluation;
- curriculum development; and
- whole-school improvement.
It is not intended to create identical classrooms. Instead, it provides a shared set of principles while allowing teachers to respond professionally to the pupils, subject and learning in front of them.
Our Commitment
At New Moston, we are committed to teaching that:
- maintains consistently high expectations;
- responds to the needs of every learner;
- actively engages and challenges children; and
- is designed to build secure and lasting learning.
Through high-quality teaching, we want every child to make strong progress, develop confidence and experience success.