‘Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure and Style’
“It is helpful to have examples of adaptive teaching, but also to present ‘non-examples’ of what it isn’t too.”
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As I prepare for September, I'm taking the opportunity to read @RachelPiXL 'Time To Think'. Even though it's still holiday time for me, I find it's a chance to reflect on the past year and consider my approach to the year ahead.
I don't have a blog anymore, but I've had one brewing in my head for a bit around my thought processes when planning a non-fiction reading lesson, and if I don't spew it out at some point it may shatter my eyeballs out, so load in (or log out) for a fairly long thread.
Charlotte Pottinger's Retrieval Practice at @RiversPrimary is pure gold- and you can see her students think so as well. Video and notes here:
https://t.co/m24BLYzLUJ
I’d love input from secondary teachers (especially anyone who teaches Year 7 groups).
If you had a wish list of skills, habits etc that we can try and instil in Y6s, what would you put on your list?
A Thread on Handwriting…
Over the past 2 years, I have paid more attention to the way handwriting is taught than at any other point in my career. Handwriting seemed a fairly simple thing that pupils would just pick up with a few lessons on letter formation. I was wrong! Here are some things I think about now that I didn’t always consider before…
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'Adaptive Teaching: Scaffolds, Scale, Structure & Style'
"It's important, if we're trying to help teachers move on from differentiation, to be clear how tasks can be adapted whilst retaining the same challenging goal." Feat. @ClareSealy
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Bank holiday giveaway! Times Tables Ninja KS1 has been out in the world for two weeks, and here's your chance to win a copy!
Like and retweet to enter. UK only. Closes Saturday 13th April. https://t.co/EFwCreExlz
At Soane we use:
🤚🏼‘Heads down, hands open’ to check for understanding
🗣️ ‘Turn & talk’ for rehearsal
🙋🏽♂️ ‘All hands up cold calling’
How do we do this? Find out more at our 🧬Science conference on Mon 22nd Jan. Get tickets here 👇🏼
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We had a fabulous teacher familiarisation day at Hampton Court Palace this morning, helping teachers plan for their upcoming visits. You can find a list of all dates here- https://t.co/sthpATMkHz
Congratulations to our Staff STARS Awards winners.
Today's awards were an opportunity to recognise and celebrate how staff model our STARS values for the benefit of everyone within their school community and the wider Rivers family.
#STARS#LoveLearnLive
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📢We are recruiting
Director of Education x 2
Responsible for the leadership and development of educational standards across a group of schools and lead on trust-wide areas of focus within our Rivers 2030 Strategy.
Closing date: 4 March 2024
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Changes to KS2 Access Arrangements question 6 for additional time.
I have a range of thoughts. On one hand, it seems like this change could make it easier to justify children getting additional time, however, how can this be applied consistently across schools?