Simple starters and plenaries for the new academic year Friday, August 16, 2013 PrintEmailTweet This!Save to Favorites I thought it might be useful to collate a few simple starters and plenaries in readiness for the new academic year. With the move to linear, engaging and motivating students takes on a whole new level of importance in helping ensure they get it right first time. Rub ‘N’ Reveal - Bellwork/ Starter/Main/ Plenary Starter Activity - I’m the Question Starter / Finisher - Lesson Summary Square Starter & Revision Activity - Consider All Possibilities (C.A.P) Starter Activity: What Why Depends - Developing Thinking Skills Prediction - A plenary and a starter Whats in a name? Bellwork Activity - Equation Starter Activity - Set Your Students the 15 Word Challenge Topic Tennis i-Teach Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" Business Studies Revision / Exam Coaching Workshops Coming Up: GCSE Business (AQA Unit 2 & Edexcel Unit 3) Thursday 24 April 2014 - Birmingham Friday 25 April 2014 - London (Stratford City)
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Your must-have classroom toolkit Comment:3.8 average rating | Comments (52)Last Updated:17 March, 2014Section:Resources We’ve picked out a selection of must-have classroom management and lesson planning resources uploaded and rated by teachers. This list includes some of the most popular resources ever uploaded to the TES, some have been downloaded by more than 130,000 teachers! And they’re all free .. Simply follow the links to download the individual resources. You’ll need to log in the first time you download a resource - if you don’t have an account then you’ll be prompted to create one, which is free and only takes a minute. Behaviour management and rewards Top 10 behaviour management tips Does exactly what it says on the box. Marbles Timer The world’s finest tidy-up timer based on marbles and jars. Reward stickers Praise reward stickers for early years and primary. Effort league table A whole class reward chart based on a football league table. Pirate ship reward chart Reward wristband More recommended behaviour resources
Conflict Strategies for Nice People - Liane Davey by Liane Davey | 12:00 PM December 25, 2013 Do you value friendly relations with your colleagues? Are you proud of being a nice person who would never pick a fight? Unfortunately, you might be just as responsible for group dysfunction as your more combative team members. That’s because it’s a problem when you shy away from open, healthy conflict about the issues. Teams need conflict to function effectively. Still, I meet people every day who admit that they aren’t comfortable with conflict. Sure, pulling your punches might help you maintain your self-image as a nice person, but you do so at the cost of getting your alternative perspective on the table; at the cost of challenging faulty assumptions; and at the cost of highlighting hidden risks. To overcome these problems, we need a new definition of nice. The secret of having healthy conflict and maintaining your self-image as a nice person is all in the mindset and the delivery. Here are a few tips on improving your delivery: 1. 2. 3. 4.
The Starter Generator! Mark II The Quick 10: 10 Ways Shakespeare Changed Everything In honor of William Shakespeare’s birthday tomorrow, we’ve teamed up with Uncommon Goods to create a printable party kit to celebrate the Bard! (Oh, and we're reposting some of our favorite Shakespeare stories to get you in the mood.) The basic thesis of Stephen Marche’s How Shakespeare Changed Everything becomes obvious very early on (as in, it is expressed in the title). According to this fun, lyrically written and well-researched book, here are just ten of the many ways that Shakespeare changed everything: 1. He gave us a lot of new words Just say some words real quick and you’ll probably say one he coined – nearly 10% of his 20,000-word vocabulary was new to his audiences. 2. 3. His statue in Central Park is covered in pigeon droppings, and strangely it's kind of his fault. In March of 1860, Schieffelin released a mere sixty starlings into the Central Park air as a part of his effort to introduce every bird mentioned in Shakespeare to North America. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Big time. 10.
Taking the ‘temperature of learning’ in lessons: a few tried and tested strategies | @mrocallaghan_edu ‘Progress’ appears to be the buzz word in schools at the moment, especially during lesson observations. The new Ofsted framework specifically looks at how teachers enable students to make progress in lessons and over a series of lessons. I believe progress is only as good as the learning objective you measure it against, so making sure your learning objectives are clear and differentiated is vital. This should not be a hoop you jump through for observations but a means to take the ‘temperature of learning’ in a lesson. Below is a range of strategies I have used in lessons to try and get students to take a more active role in their learning and take some ownership of the progress they are making. 1. This is very easy to set up and use in lessons. 2. This works by displaying a scale on the board under a learning objective with a happy face at one end and a sad face at the other. 3. 4. Check out Dan’s website here for more information about the Learning Place Mat. 5. 6. Summary Like this: