TLC 212th

December

Challenge 1

If lessons were like skateboarding…

reflect on your lessons from last week: - Which ‘zones’

were your students generally in?

- Where does the most learning occur?

Factors that commonly limit learning;

● Excessive pace ● Overloading of activities ● Inflexible planning ● Limited time for independent

work ● Concentrating too much, or too

early on a narrow range of test or communication skills

Ofsted observation quotes;“The person working the hardest in the lesson was the teacher.”“It contained seven or eight activities which were conducted at speed.” “The sheer number of tasks did not allow student to consolidate their understanding, or even complete the tasks.”“Attempting to understand and apply three sets of level criteria in 5 minutes is unrealistic.”

Science

All of the previous links (and much more besides) are on the T&L Hub

phslearninghub.weebly.com

Research is; identifying a question and experimenting to find the answer

What is your ‘big’ question?

What are the long term benefits of your research task? For:

● Student● Teacher● Department● School● Parents

How will you measure the impact of your research task? For example:● Student survey● BfL data● Tracker data● Teacher survey● Parental survey● Other

Review

Reflect

Report

Please remember that if there is a significant innovation link and you would like to use this

for your innovation CPD requirements please see LP.

Learning log

You will need to keep an ongoing record of your progress, actions and findings. This should be either a blog or a shared google doc. Please share the blog link or google doc with your TLC leaders and TLT.

9th January optional CPD blogging

Your learning log should include:

● What have you done?● When did you do it?● Why did you do it?● What did you learn from it?● What are you doing next?

https://headguruteacher.com/2013/01/22/great-lessons-1-probing-questions/

https://headguruteacher.com/2013/01/31/great-lessons-3-challenge/

https://headguruteacher.com/2013/01/27/great-lessons-2-rigour/

https://headguruteacher.com/2013/02/03/great-lessons-4-differentiation/

http://www.slideshare.net/

Reflections on ‘typicality’“In all the talk of improving teaching and learning, sometimes – no often – there is too much talk about the model OfSTED lesson. Too often this leads teachers into thinking of idealised lessons than can only be turned out in special circumstances or that outstanding lessons require us to devise an elaborate box of tricks to show off with. However, it is the 99% of lessons that are never observed that really matter. So, we need to focus on things that we do every day”Tom Sherrington- headteacherguru