Student Teacher
We hope that the EASiER Toolkit will be useful for students who are training to be teachers. We have structured the resources so that you can work through them bit-by-bit by engaging with a serious of mini course units at your own pace.
You can either work through all the units in sequence or just dip into the ones that are of most interest to you.
As will be explained in detail as you enter the EASiER Toolkit, the units are grouped into five layers, what we have called the 5S model:
- Self
- School
- Social
- System
- Social
We have set out an example schedule below for how you might want to spread the units out over the length of your teacher education course, but the toolkit is designed to be used flexibly depending on your needs and interests.
Example schedule for a BA student on a three-year programme
| Year 1 | Explore the ‘Self’ units within the toolkit to consider individual-level strategies that you can apply to prepare for your school placements. |
| Year 2 | Explore the ‘School’ and ‘Social’ units to consider how the school environment shapes the resilience process and to reflect on the social resources you can draw upon to support you in your career. |
| Year 3 | Explore the ‘System’ and ‘Society’ units to consider how the education system and society more broadly influence the way that teachers feel about their working lives |
Example schedule for a PGCE schedule on a one-year programme
| Before you start the programme | Explore the ‘Self’ units within the toolkit to consider individual-level strategies that you can apply to prepare for your school placements. |
| Semester 1 | Explore the ‘School’ and ‘Social’ units to consider how the school environment shapes the resilience process and to reflect on the social resources you can draw upon to support you in your career. |
| Semester 2 | Explore the ‘System’ and ‘Society’ units to consider how the education system and society more broadly influence the way that teachers feel about their working lives |
The EASiER toolkit is free to use. When you enter the main body of the toolkit at the bottom of this page, you will be asked to enter your name and email address. This is so that we can gain a sense of how the toolkit is being used. We will contact you occasionally to provide updates on new content and to ask for feedback to further develop the toolkit. See here for our privacy notice which details how we will use and store your contact details.
If you have any questions about the toolkit or the research that informed it, please get in touch with Dr Steph Ainsworth on s.ainsworth@mmu.ac.uk or Dr Jez Oldfield on j.oldfield@mmu.ac.uk. We hope you find the toolkit useful!
Click on the link below to enter the toolkit and get started.