Feedback and meta-cognition
Most recently we have released a Scheme of Learning form / template that presents a year plan, through to unit or lesson outline plan, which feeds either a lesson plan or Lesson Observation form. I was asked by a number …
feedback
Marked improvement
This is not the time to be reflecting on a weekends marking however, just as I am checking out and about to power down, @dandesignthink posts this insightful image on Twitter. If you have not come across Dan’s graphic design, do …
Ofsted joint feedback
From what I have read, it would be fair to summarise that the 2012 framework is built upon achievement and teaching, after all if a school has satisfactory achievement, it would be difficult to argue that teaching is good. Consequentially, it is essential …
Even more with textwall
So, two points to pick up here. At the end of the PSRE lesson I was able to push the student responses to Wordle. This automatically gave me an overview of the lesson, warts and all. To be fair, a …
Using Feedback as the Lesson
Before I get to the ‘Using Feedback as the Lesson’ post, there are a couple of pedagogical reflections / questions I wish to highlight / discuss with you and hopefully, as its the holidays, you might comment? A recent research …
Questions and Tweets
The BBC wrote an article on different teaching strategies. Two strategies that caught my attention were the ‘No Hands Up’ and ‘No Grades’ approaches. I have used both, encouraged colleagues to experiment with both and now I am going to …
Freedom to Make Mistakes
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi How do we as teachers respond to incorrect answers? I like the % method, but there are others…. Well, that is 70% correct …
OCR Smilies
Having marked over 70 assignments over the Christmas break, with one set of classmarking covering two assessment outcomes, I was able to make good use of my smilies stamp , rewarding students working at or beyond their target grades. This reminded me …