Teaching For Learning
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Documents For Teachers
Teaching and Learning Policy
Kagan Structures Posters
three_part_interview.pdf
showdown.pdf
thinkpairshare.pdf
Instructions For Kagan Structures
Three step interview
How it is done:
Pupils work with shoulder partner.
STEP ONE: One pupil interviews the other. They could ask questions that you put on the board, or generate their own.
STEP TWO: After a set period of time the interviewer become the interviewee.
STEP THREE. Pairs then return to their group and share there answers by either a Round Robin* or Round Table* activity.
Top Tip: Use the 'timer' to time the lengths of the interviews
Showdown
How it is done:
Start with a pile of question on each teams tables. These could be preprepared question cards or ones the pupils have made for other teams. No.1 Picks the top card and reads the question. The other team members write the answer on paper or a mini white board. When all team members are finished and have given the 'ready' signal the question master calls 'showdown' and the pupils reveal their answers. The question master then congratulates those with the right answer and coaches those with the wrong answer.
Top Tip: Get teams or the class to choose a 'finished' signal. This can merely be a thumbs up, or something more inventive.
Think, Pair share.
How it is done:
A problem is posed, students think alone about the question for a specified amount of time, then form pairs to discuss the question with someone in the class, usually a teammate. During the share time, students are called upon to share with the class as a whole.
Where it can be used: When revisiting a topic, from a previous year, term, or lesson. E.g. Brainstorm what you can remember about the civil war, french words associated with 'eating out'.
Top Tip: Use a timer to countdown time remaining. This focuses pupils and helps keep them on task. It can also improve the pace of your lesson.
Rally Robin
How it is done:
Involves students taking turns in partnerships sharing information. Pupil one says a word or and idea, then pupils two, then back to one again, and so on...
Where it can be used: Ideal for getting pupils thinking about a topic that they might have not covered for a while, or ideal to start a lesson by recapping what they remember about the previous lesson. For brainstorming technical terms.
Rally Coach
How it is done: Partners take turns, one solving a problem while the other coaches. One pupil can have question cards together with the answers on the reverse, The 'coach' asks their partner the question and initally also tells them the answers. The second time around the coach does not tell them the answers, but gives them 'clues' if they need them.
Top Tip: Have a mixture of questions that recap previous lessons and some new information.
African Themed Lessons
Citizenship
Geography
English
Global Dimension Leaflets
http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/uploadedFiles/Whats_New/exploring_gd_subject_leaflets.pdf
Documents For Students
Study Skills
Teaching and Learning ("Advocates") Group
Lunchtime Inset Programme
(all Staff are welcome to attend) 12 - 1pm in M1
March 1st BFL David Bell
April 27th Kagan Structures for Group work speaker from Deyes High
May AfL speaker TBC
July New NC Dimensions Mike Fletcher Hunt
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