A great article here about where education goes from here. The image is relevant!!!!
What Is Not Working in Education (and What We Can Do About It)
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Enagaging students at the start of the lesson
Here are some ideas from the Guardian on how to start lessons in an engaging way.
Teacher explanation tips
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)
“There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”
Teaching and learning research summaries
There are several superb summaries of educational research that have been compiled into easily accessible websites and articles in pdf format that can be read online and shared with staff. Link below
Teaching and Learning Research Summaries: A collection for easy access.
Group work ideas to improve student response
Here are some graphic organisers and other resources that could help students reflect on discussions and their learning. Ive chosen few but there are loads more with guidance on how to use
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/
Click to access 6-8%20Essay%20Map.pdf
Differentiation ideas
From Cult of Pedagogy “I have combed through tons of online resources on how to differentiate instruction, and have put together this collection of the clearest, most high-quality resources for learning how to differentiate in your classroom”.
Learning Scientists
Here is a great site with resources and blogs about teaching and learning. Here we have a blog on memory and modelling
http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2016/10/20-1
Group Work Tips
Here are some strategies form Edutopia that may helping developing group work and ensuring that it helps all progress
https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-strategies-deepen-student- collaboration-mary-burns
Feedback pointers
Here are some pointers from the Guardian on effective feedback
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher- network/2016/nov/10/seven-ways-to-give-better- feedback-to-your-students
Norton College Teaching and Learning Blog 