• Intellectual preparation means setting yourself up for success in delivering your planned lesson.

• It is different from planning because a plan is the lesson structure/outline/slides/booklet notes.

• Intellectual preparation is the HOW and WHY behind all of that.

• Shared/centralised lessons allows teachers to refocus time on the execution (the how)

• Centralised lessons are not personalised - our students deserve that personalisation

• Differentiation in delivery cannot be done successfully off the cuff. If we have intellectually prepared for it, we reduce our cognitive load during the lesson.

SUCCESS CRITERIA FOR INTELLECTUAL PREPARATION IN PHASE 2

1. Plan to tackle a common misconception head on

2. Script explanation to ensure it is bitesized, precise & concise

3. Identify the students you will target the questions to according to their needs

4. Strategically plan in CFU points

5. Use exemplar response you intend to use later to set your class up to succeed in this phase

High Frequency Errors are the inverse of this success criteria!

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1. If we fail to ‘prepare’, we prepare our students to fail: intellectual preparation is essential for our students’ success. Make time to do this for every lesson.

2. PLAN in your CFU questions and deliberately target your SAFs before the lesson.

• Technique 1, pg 45, Exemplar Planning, Teach Like A Champion 3.0 by Doug Lemov

• Intellectual preparation: our second-order thinking