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Every Tuesday morning, our staff briefing is given over to Teaching Tip Tuesday where best practice, new ideas and research are shared with all staff. Staff are giving the opportunity to share their ideas and develop their own practice.
Tuesday 5th of July, 2022.
Shonagh took inspiration from Nikki’s’ teach meet to showcase what she did with her classUsing the templates Nikki sent out from the latest Teach Meet, Shonagh created key character cards for the play 'A streetcar named desire". These were stuck under the chairs and students had to go around the room for 3 minutes and interview one another to retrieve as much information as they could. Once this was done, they had to produce all their ideas on a knowledge organiser. Finally they had to make inferences and deductions about what the big concepts and themes most likely to appear based on the information.
The second comes again from Tom Sherrington’s blog looking at 5 ways to build confidence for a learner.
Tuesday 28th of June, 2022.
This week's teahcing tip focused on the article from Tom Sherrington on how to scaffold classroom dialogue which feeds really nicely into oracy
His steps are full sentences – step up the vocab – sequence the ideas – express an opinion and comparison and analysis.
scaffold-classroom-dialogue.pdfTuesday 21th of June, 2022.
Please find this weeks teaching resources. The first is a PPT that show you how to carry out lots of functionality on PPT to create an aide memoire the example here is from history
Thank you to Mr. Salih who uses a great graphic design program called canva and if you upload evidence you work in school you get the full subscription for free.
PowerPoint Tips and Tricks Guide..pptxTuesday 14th of June, 2022.
Please find this weeks teaching resources. A great idea seen in action from Jill sharing with students the ladders to success and what needs to be mastered to move onto the next level with Specific NOW tasks to support progression
Also added a review wheel to help consolidate learning. Run the PPT and the presa 1 to atop it click on the corresponding image to take you to the task and then click blow to take you back to the wheel
Review_Wheel - editable.pptx
Tuesday 7th of June, 2022.
Please find this week’s resource which combines retrieval practice with Home learning showing a variety of ideas, 16 in total that could be used to consolidate learning.
Please remember that this week starts to see all home learning (Assignments) being signposted on Arbor. Please see below as a refresher on how to allocate them
Retrieval-Practice-HomeLearning.pptx
Tuesday 17th of May, 2022.
Some fantastic retrieval resources from Teachng Tip Tuesday. The first is a placemat with the following question prompts. The second is another PPT with a great variety of over 15 activities that can be woven into lessons.
Finally from feedback from the Arbor survey I am starting to roll out several requests. This week I have included the video and step by step guides to not only set up an extra-curricular club but also how the register appears on your timetable and you can see medical needs etc
Tuesday 10th of May, 2022.
Last week's teaching tip look at Retrieval Practice, this week we focused on Education blogs.
'A teacher's guide to retrieval practice.'
Podcast: using retrival practice.
Study skill: Interleaving and spacing.
Study skill: Retrieval Practice.
Tuesday 3rd of May, 2022.
Please find a great resource of 10 retrieval practice ideas showing how they are used and also a blank template of the idea. All can easily be adapted to different subjects
The 10 ideas are
4 lasts – last lesson week month and topic
Give me 5 – 5 reasons
60 second recall challenge
Scoring grid- how many points can you get
Key word
Identify the link
Odd one out
Make the link
What/who am i
Elaborate – how is the central idea similar or different
book covers GCSE .pptxRetrieval-Practice.pptxTuesday 26th of April, 2022.
Welcome to Arbor! This week's tip is on how to set up classroom layouts with the program. Click here for some start up info.
Tuesday 29th of March, 2022.
This week's we looked how to use our new system 'Arbor' effectively as well as finding and customizing one of the thousands of ready-made bingo cards, or use the simple bingo card generator to create your own. Then print as many cards as you need. You can even play virtual bingo using a computer, smartphone or tablet.
Tuesday 22 March, 2022
Two great resources this week from Ms Claridge. The first is Slidesmania which is a fantastic site for Google Slides templates. As well as a huge range of designs for regular presentations, they have some school bundles for interactive tasks that work beautifully as Google Classroom lessons/home learning
Ms Claridge is also using Wordle for keywords.
Tuesday 15 March, 2022
Attached a battleships game for retrieval practice the example is for history but the game is editable to put your own subject questions into.
Thank you to Hayley who has produced some excellent discussion cards to further support form time debates
Attached are 6 role cards
There is a discussion topic/s given to students: can money buy you happiness (this week's oracy discussion for instance but would work for pretty much anything).
Teacher groups the students into 6s.
Each student is given a role card.
Timed discussion
Feedback to the class as jigsaw learning, Jamboard or independent consolidation of ideas.
Discussion cards.pptxTuesday 8 March, 2022
Thank you to both Hayley and Doug for this weeks resources!
Hayley created a language-based recall activity for her 11s. Which she used as a starter activity.
I asked HoFs to look at personalising the WWW banners the idea for this is to enable the students to clearly link the prior learning with what they are doing in the lesson and in future lessons. If the students are able to understand the ‘learning journey’ the lessons will be more relevant, and learning will be more effective.
The aim is that in all of our projected lessons we would use a similar template to enable us to support the students in making these links. And in every other lesson we would verbalise from the poster.
Word finding.docWWWTemplate.pptxTuesday 22 February, 2022
Many thanks to both Shonagh and Andrew for these two great ideas of revision games. Shonagh has created a revision pub quiz and Andrew’s year 11 class designed their own revision games that were played on a carousel
Tuesday 8 February, 2022
The first along the lines of an idea shared by Doug a few weeks a go this resource isa different revision question with support for ever day this month.
The second a Macbeth resource with questions structured trough Blooms taxonomy.
TB A page a day_ February 2022.pdfRevision through thinking skills - Macbeth.pdfTuesday 1 February, 2022
Please find this week’s revision resources:
Science revision cards on PPT that can easily be printed off as revision cards
Revision clock that you can time yourself answering the set questions
Revision snooker increasing the degree of difficulty answering questions
And revision topic on one page
I hope you find this useful
C1 Revision Cards.pptRevision-Clock-Angles.pptxRevision Cards Diet in sport System AG.pptxGCSE PE Revision Snooker Mark Scheme.pptpe-revision-and-literacy-mats-all-13-combined (2).pdfPage updated
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