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Junior School Model Book Templates
Junior School Model Book Templates
The Junior Model Book Templates include reading and maths pages. If you are going to use these it is important to check that each aspect of the template matches your teaching, if not adjust accordingly. Group names, members and LO's should match the information in your weekly planning.
The maths slides are set up to have space for the 2 problems you would include in your DMIC lesson.
Senior School Model Book Templates
Senior School Model Book Templates
The Senior Model Templates also include space for reading and maths lessons. If being used, all the information on your model book slides should match up with your weekly planning. As these are for the students, we wouldn't include any data or personal information that may be present in your weekly plan.
The maths slides have space for some warm up problems, one large problem, which match the DMIC planning.
Why use Google Slides for model books?
By planning for your reading and maths lessons on Google Slides, you can prepare everything you need well in advance. The slides are easy to print and add into your model books, and you can make the lessons neat and easy to read for your students. You also have the option (particularly for maths lessons) of recording ideas on your slides while presenting them on your Smart TVs. The stylus pens are more tactile than simply typing ideas, and you can draw diagrams to help explain ideas. Once the lesson is complete you can save the slides as images, or print them out and add them to your model books for students to access in the future (this can be very useful as a resource when they are completing follow up activities).
Copying model book lessons and making new ones for the following week is also very quick when using slides. You will keep your formatting and group names, so only a small amount of information (text titles, LO's, maths problems etc.) need to be updated weekly. You can also work on these at home without needing the actual model books with you.
Self-assessment in model books
Included in the maths slides is a self-assessment code next to the student names (names which you would obviously update to match your class).
Red/Rewind, Orange/Pause, Green/Forward are for students to give voice on their success during the session. It should help guide next steps and interventions.
Red = Student wants to revisit ideas another way, as they may have struggled in the lesson or do not feel confident that they made a "connect". This could mean revisiting the lesson in a target group later that week.
Orange = Student wants time to consolidate, so that they are confident in what they have learned. This means they acknowledge they have gained some new knowledge, but they need time/practice to make sense of it. This could mean a consolidation session that week, perhaps in an SSR period.
Green = Student is ready to test knowledge independently, or take on harder problems. They feel confident with what they learned and are ready to test themselves in a new way.
Obviously, accurate self-assessment is something students will develop as they go. If you notice some students who are over confident in their abilities, or maybe select green because they are nervous about addressing a weakness, then use your judgement as to how to encourage that student to take on another lesson.
Writing Model Books
Writing Model Books
Using Google Slides for writing is also a great way to make use of your Smart TV's, decrease your planning time, and allow students easier access of resources.
A writing model book can be set up at the start of each term to match the writing style set out in the LTP's. In this example you can see links to different resources/websites/videos that support learning for Recounts on the first slide. These would be accessed for specific lessons throughout the term. The following slides include; Breakdown of the writing piece (purpose, audience, skills, feedback focus etc.), planning template for the writing piece, teacher's modelled writing. If you had links to videos, texts or websites that were being for that writing, you could also add in hyperlinks on these pages to make it easier to access them.
Once that piece of writing is completed, you can make a copy of the slides for the next piece. This keeps the term goals/resource links unchanged but allows you to put in fresh information for the new piece of writing much faster.
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