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Green Pen and DIRT
Do you find that student are making testament mistakes when you AR mating? Does your feedback get ignored by students? Do you use empty phrases in your feedback? This presentation on DIRT shows how...
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DPW discussed the use of Twitter as free CPD for staff, showing how he uses it to gain information, and how many educators blog their thoughts and findings on there. Often changes to education are...
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Differentiation In The Classroom
This resource is perfect to support the development of the way we ensure that we plan our lessons based on the needs of all students (a target set by Ofsted previously). This looks at strategies that...
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Supporting Literacy
Following the recent literacy workscan most feedback highlighted the need for staff to revisit the use of the literacy marking codes. Most staff are focusing on spelling (using ‘sp’) but the other...
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Gifted and Talented
Following the achievement of the top set in the recent English Language results with high numbers of A and A* grades being achieved, JPC reflected on what he felt were the contributing factors. One...
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Resilience Training
DJA has been using the work and ideas explored in the Learning Development Groups to explore how to make her year group more resilient. She has found that they often ask questions that they could find...
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Timeline Memory Game
GRH shared an idea she uses to allow students to work out the order that ideas go in, as well as a method for retaining information. Students are placed in teams of 3 and have to visit the teacher...
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Thinking and Questioning Lesson
NSL has trialled an approach to ensuring that students are exploring questions themselves in order to make them more independent and to engage in a topic. This has been as part of the LDG group work....
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No Hands Up!
EVS has been developing a method that explores a method of using lollipop sticks to chose students to answer questions so that the same students do not always contribute, and so that reluctant...
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Level up Resilience
There are 4 simple methods that teachers can use to create more resilience in their students, to ensure that they are able to persevere until they reach success....
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PLCs, DIRT and Knowledge in Science
The science department have been further developing their use of PLCs (Personalised Learning Charts) by adjusting the criteria, and creating DIRT sheets that numerically match the skills on the...
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Therapy sheets
Using the Pixl idea of Diagnose, Therapy, Testing (DTT), AEL has been developing sheets that have a clear explanation of an area that a student needs to revise or check their understanding of, that...
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