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Improving teaching and Improving teaching and learning with the KS3 learning with the KS3

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Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Improving teaching and learning

Good teaching:• What it is

• How to get it

• How to keep it

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

• Think of something you recently learnt, Think of something you recently learnt, or learnt to do betteror learnt to do better

• What helped you to learn?What helped you to learn?

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

Effective teachers….

• Are explicit and engaging• Are not ‘right answer auctioneers’• Design learning out of assessment• Connect with their students

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

Lesson episodes

• What do they know?• What do they need to know?• How will they learn?

Start early and start often!

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Good teaching: what it is

Year 9 history lesson log: trench warfare

• Strengths

• Problems solutions

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

Objectives are…………..

• what students will have learnt by the end of the lesson

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

We are learning to (WALT)….

• Identify the factors that affect how quickly enzymes work

• Use figurative language to affect a reader’s emotional response

• Substitute an integer into a simple formula

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

A sequence for teaching writing:1. Establish clear aims.2. Provide example(s).3. Explore the features of the text.4. Define the conventions.5. Demonstrate how it is written.6. Compose together.7. Scaffold the first attempts.8. Independent writing.9. Draw out key learning.

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

Video of the teaching of writing:Notice how the teacher uses stages 3-6 ofthe sequence for teaching writing:

3. Explore the features of the text.3. Explore the features of the text.4. Define the conventions.4. Define the conventions.5. Demonstrate how it is written.5. Demonstrate how it is written.6. Compose together.6. Compose together.

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

Ways of thinking about teaching……

• Know, show, share, pair, perfect, reflect

• Socio-cultural perspectives

• Ofsted

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: what it is

“In the lessons that were good or better the teachersspecified clearly a comprehensive set of learning objectives, including what the pupils should understand, as well as what they should be able to do. In the lessons where there were weaknesses…the teachers lacked strategies to check understanding…during the lesson, and therefore failed to take action to support pupils who were unsure of key elements….The pupils’ progress in the lessons visited was closely related to the quality of the teaching.”

Ofsted school report leading to special measures

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Good teaching: How to get it• Action research/experimentation

• Research buddies

• Teaching and learning policy

• Schemes of Work

• Data: how effective are we?

• Performance management

• Monitoring

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: How to get it

Richard Durant Teaching and Learning

Good teaching: How to get it

The Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools series:

1. Lesson Design

2. Teaching Pupils Who Make Slower Progress

3. Modelling

4. Questioning

5. Active Engagement Strategies

6. Starters

7. Group Work

8. Developing Effective Learners

9. Improving the Climate for Learning

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Good teaching: How to keep it

• Training, experiment and dissemination• Continuous professional development targeted at groups

rather than individuals• Everything evaluated in terms of its likely impact on

teaching and learning in lessons• Every meeting provides an opportunity for learning about

teaching• Monitoring, including work sampling and observation• Support for peer observations and co-teaching• Recruitment of ‘sharing best practice’ co-ordinator –

probably an AST

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Good teaching: where are you now?

• All teachers in the school share a definition of good teaching and this definition is made explicit in the school policy on teaching and learning, and obviously informs lesson plans and schemes of work.

• The school has teachers who regularly experiment and reflect on and discuss their practice. The school has a classroom monitoring programme, and all staff are supplied with the data they need to help them evaluate their own effectiveness.

• The school enjoys a culture of experimentation and professional development. Teachers actively support each other in this process. Work sampling is regularly carried out across the curriculum. The school is self-evaluating at every level and at every moment.