Core content on Classroom Practice from the ITT Framework
Tom Sherrington has a useful website looking at teaching and learning ideas/ strategies. On this page he has links to a series of short posts about specific elements of teaching practice that he thinks are effective and make life interesting. Some are based on his own lessons and others are borrowed from lessons he has observed.
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Tom Sherrington @teacherhead
This website has some brilliant how to guides. They are by History teachers but apply to ALL Phases and subject areas. You can adapt the History examples for your own subjects. There are videos that go with the How to guide. It is an amazing project covering ideas like:
Worked Examples
Guided Reading
Visualisers
Knowledge Organisers
Multiple choice questions
Because But So
and more!
Kat Howard @saysMiss has a range of great How to guides on: Modelling, Questioning, Visualizers, Knowledge Organisers, Feedback, teaching Vocabulary. Read her blogs here: https://saysmiss.wordpress.com/
Jamie Clark has shared one page summaries for some of the key principles of effective classroom practice.
Three of his posters are below.
Click on the image to the left to access his site to see the full range of his posters.
Maddy Evans @evans_madeleine
Over 40 people generously shared their ideas and reflections. Key links to a range of articles, videos, blogs and research about teaching and learning. Click the button below to download the interactive map.
Pose-Pause-Pounce-Bounce is a questioning sequence which is much more suited to elicit deep thinking. The teacher poses a question; pauses to allow suitable thinking time; pounces on one student for an initial answer; and finally bounces the answer to another student who builds on the response.