Active Learning

Greg HortonAdvanced Skills Teacher

Wildern School

PE warm ups

• Pupils adapt their own model and lead future warm-up sessions

• Use at any time to re-engage pupils in a lesson

Anyone for tennis?

good bad

pretty ugly

interesting boring

clean dirty

old new

modern historical

big small

Kagan Timed Pair Share

Ich bin fauler als du!

Du spinnst!Ich bin der

faulste!

What is active learning?

Making physical response a routine part of learning

The levels of active learning:

• Word level (fun but ….)

• Sentence level (manipulation and creativity)

• Conceptual (tense and grammar)

Human word chains• Reinforce a basic sentence structure

• Construct, deconstruct, adapt and extend sentences.

• Involves more pupils than a Smartboard activity

• Stimulates more interest and sustains focus

• Particularly effective for starters and plenaries

• Practise sequencing a narrative

Using verbs

• Use actions to practise and reinforce grammar (no need to devote lesson time to traditional exercises)

Timelines

• Establishing a timeline in pupils’ minds reinforces the concept of time and tense

• Use key points in time ranging from last year to next year

• Take pupils outside and practise ‘time-walking’ (or even ‘time cycling’!)

Strictly come camping!

Speed Writing

The clock times ballet