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Category: Differentiation

The benefits of increased oracy skills

On August 10, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, English, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/training-pupils-hold-classroom-discussions-boosts-quality-their

On classroom relationships 

On July 30, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Growth MindsetLeave a comment

https://thosethatcanteach.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/on-respecting-and-learning-from-children/amp/

Investment rather than engagement

On July 27, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, DifferentiationLeave a comment

An excellent blog here by James Durran on how to manage learning and progress by investing in students rather than simply engaging them. 

https://jamesdurran.blog/2017/07/24/making-the-investment/amp/

Keeping it simple 

On July 27, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, DifferentiationLeave a comment

https://theeffortfuleducator.com/2017/07/14/the-value-of-simplicity-in-the-classroom/amp/

Teacher-student relationships

On July 23, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/strict-or-sympathetic-theres-more-one-way-teachers-relate-their?amp

Skills vs knowledge 

On July 22, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, DifferentiationLeave a comment

Here is an interesting blog from Doug Lemov about misunderstandings and misconceptions

http://m.teachlikeachampion.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fteachlikeachampion.com%2Fblog%2Ffavorite-no-mistaking-knowledge-problems-skill-problems%2F&dm_redirected=true#2669

Ideologies in teaching 

On July 22, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Growth MindsetLeave a comment

Done good points here about an objective approach https://noeasyanswerseducation.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/is-my-teaching-practice-rooted-in-ideology/amp/

Questioning techniques

On July 15, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Differentiation, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

Here is a summary of questioning techniques from U.Ked 

Click to access Questioning.pdf

Pitching to the top

On July 9, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Differentiation, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

Here is s straightforward blog explaining differentiation through metaphor

https://jamesdurran.blog/2017/05/23/on-differentiation/amp/

Connected learning 

On July 8, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

The next step in making teaching reflect the real world 

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/04/03/connected-learning-tying-to-student-passions-to-school-subjects/

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