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Category: Closing the Gap

Questioning

On November 8, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

Some good guidance here o improving questions https://classteaching.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/effective-questioning/

A really interesting blog on cultural capital and what it really is

On October 31, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn Closing the Gap, Growth MindsetLeave a comment

The changing currency of ‘cultural capital’

Behaviour management

On October 27, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn Behaviour and Well Being, Closing the GapLeave a comment

Some more sense being spoken by Tom Bennett about behaviour:

“Boundaries without love is tyranny, but love without boundaries is indulgence”.

Teachers Need to Be Taught To Teach Students to Behave

Evidence Based Education Great Teaching Toolkit

On October 10, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

https://www.greatteaching.com/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=89781975&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–A4doT25eiHjI3rWL8wHHHnOmotMC8Pk_RJXByQUKN4UcMj4XwEx0NovqOVDK226NUl4EgKMmBGxM3W9QZEVTqMtfCNLsOSShyawzj8csyDeaey-c&utm_content=89781975&utm_source=hs_email

Maths teaching for additional challenge

On October 6, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, MathsLeave a comment

Looking for ways to strengthen your maths lessons and challenge your advanced and adventurous learners? It’s easier than you think.

https://mathsnoproblem.com/blog/teaching-tips/questioning-technique-strengthens-maths-lessons/

The effects of scaffolding learning

On October 4, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Growth Mindset, Marking and Feedback, ResearchLeave a comment

Greta article here about the impact of scaffolding learning https://leadinglearner.me/2020/09/20/clt-2-0-the-teacher-scaffolding-effects/

Supporting learning from Tom Sherrington

On October 4, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Growth Mindset, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

Teaching for understanding: Schema-building and generative learning.

Advice to support remote learning

On October 3, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn Business/ICT, Closing the Gap, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment
Also link here for information from the EEF https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/eef-publishes-new-review-of-evidence-on-remote-learning/#closeSignup

SEND teaching tips from the EEF

On September 12, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn Closing the Gap, Differentiation, SENDLeave a comment

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/five-evidence-based-strategies-pupils-with-special-educational-needs-send/

Some education podcasts

On September 5, 2020 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Growth Mindset, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

All courtesy of the TES

https://www.tes.com/news/fancy-teaching-podcast-then-look-right-here

Podagogy!

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