Scaffolding is not a synonym for support.
It should be temporary, responsive, and designed to disappear.
5 principles for effective scaffolding https://t.co/CQYXMfua7q
I'm going to be teaching A Level English Language for the first time in September. Does anybody have any CPD recommendations? Websites, courses, videos, workbooks etc. that would help with my subject knowledge. I really appreciate it! @Team_English1
***CODIFYING FEEDBACK***
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What are we @LHS_HighSchool doing to codify feedback and create opportunities for students to feedforward?
All too often feedback doesn’t create opportunities for students to feedforward and allow application to different contexts from across the curriculum. It ends up looking at isolated components / composites creating a disconnect between what has been learnt and the extent to which students are successful with applying knowledge.
How are creating clarity and consistency across subjects when students are demonstrating their proficiency in applying knowledge to the subject disciplines?
How do we create opportunities for students to respond and act on the feedback?
@mel_mwicks@MissCole279
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‘Disciplinary talk’
“Disciplinary talk is a recognition that mathematicians, scientists, and geographers, communicate in subtly different ways, and that talk routines can be well matched to curriculum content in those different areas.”
https://t.co/t8viKFYmJK
*** ‘Write less; read more ***
“Reading more, longer texts could be the solution to improving reading. So, the answer to improve writing must be writing more and writing longer texts too, right? I suggest not.”
https://t.co/nEtIiZd43G
@oldandrewuk Not having the time to keep on top of the individual samctions. E.g. I've issued two teacher detentions for after school where the students need to come to my room at the end of the day. They do not attend - it is upscaled - it gets lost in the ether.
*** NEW POST ***
'Supporting Exam Preparation: The Final Mile'
As national exams approach there is a key question: “how do we get pupils to take over responsibility for their learning in the final mile?”
This blog shares 6 practical strategies.
https://t.co/oq0rCSevjx
My @tes article on adaptive teaching is still proving popular. My recent conversations with school leaders have indicated a shift away from some of the problematic approaches to differentiation.
‘Differentiation is dead, long live adaptive teaching’
https://t.co/nJ33TxsEKq
🚨 CHRISTMAS BOOKS GIVEAWAY 🚨
Fancy some edu-reading for Xmas? It is advent time, so I’ve decided to give away full ‘Closing the Gap’ collections (all 3 books) to ***2*** prize winners.
Simply RETWEET this post to enter.
[I’ll be drawing the two winners on 8th December]
266 years ago today one of the strangest artists in history was born: William Blake.
He was a poet, a prophet, a painter, a Romantic, an environmentalist, an abolitionist, and a mystic.
The word "unique" is overused, but William Blake truly was unlike any other...