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Five Ways to: Scaffold Classroom Dialogue
Five Ways. A series of short posts summarising some everyday classroom practices. The essence of scaffolding is that students are elevated to a level of performance and thinking that they couldn’t…
Five Ways to: Check for Understanding
Five Ways. A series of short posts summarising some everyday classroom practices. In Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction, he stresses the vital importance of Checking for Understanding. I explore this in some detail in…
Five Ways to: Do Daily Review
Five Ways. A series of short posts summarising some everyday classroom practices. It’s now very common practice for teachers to begin a lesson with some form of retrieval practice activity.…
Five Ways to: Build Fluency
Five Ways. A series of short posts summarising some everyday classroom practices. Fluency is a concept in learning that suggests recall from memory with minimal effort and a level of automaticity. Where we can do and…
Five ways to: Sustain Student Attention
Five Ways. A series of short posts summarising some everyday classroom practices. In order to learn new conceptual ideas and new skills, we need to focus our attention -our conscious…
Five Ways To: Enrich learning for everyone, not the few.
There are lots of situations in teaching where teachers enjoy extending and enriching their repertoire and succeed in engaging a proportion of a class quite successfully. However, all too often these…
Five Ways to: Build Confidence
There’s a lot to learn! Sometimes it feels overwhelming – especially to students with the least confidence; the weakest knowledge; the most tentative grasp of the ideas. Something…
Five Ways To: Weave Reading into the Curriculum
In my travels to various schools, one of the variables that I’m struck by is the emphasis placed on reading. I included this description of the range in a previous post on seven variables between schools: From extensive reading across subjects, quality texts, established reading routines/norms; high daily volumeTo: Reading volume thin, class reading rare outside…
Five Ways to Secure Progress Through Modelling
A central feature of an instructional teaching process is for a teacher to show their students how to do something so that they can then do it themselves. This applies to countless elements…
Five Ways To: Foster Student Agency
It’s common to come across situations where the idea of independent learning is being promoted. However, this can be quite a nebulous concept unless we break it…
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