MPR - The Unfamiliar CPD

With our new specification comes new challenges. More content, harder material, little to no coursework. It can be easy to see these as obstacles but with every obstacle comes the possibility of greater success. Of doing what hasn't been done before. Let's turn these challenges into opportunities. 

KLR - Questioning CPD

Hi all,

These are the slides from Karina Larsen's CPD session on questioning... please comment below if you have any questions or queries.

"I created the Questioning PowerPoint with the beginner and trainee teacher in mind. I hoped to draw attention to the function and importance of questioning so that practitioners can conceptualise how it can benefit their students and how it can be a useful tool in the teacher tool box and not just a ‘thing that we are told that we must do’.  I particularly enjoy questioning to create rapport with students to really diagnose how the student works. Careful questioning will indicate to you whether the student has truly understood the concept or whether they are simply repeating back to you what they have memorised, therefore it is well worth taking the time to plan diagnostic and hinge questions".

CHO - An interesting article on marking

Dear all,

Please find an short read about how one school adapted their marking policy:

‘Mark however you think best’: A year in the life of a meaningful, manageable and motivating marking policy change

Any thoughts??? Please comment below... 

Best wishes,

Claire

SBA - Recall CPD session

Hi

These are the slides from Stephanie Babbage's session on How we can help students recall information.

Please comment on the box below... :) 

JMX - Verbal Feedback Morning CPD

Hi

These are the slides I used during a morning CPD session at HACH discussing our trial regarding verbal feedback. 

It is still a working process and learning is taking place all the time (the kids and myself). In this presentation you will see some of the strategies I have adopted to ensure the most effective way of getting pupils to reflect on their own work without me having to write a thing in their books.

After reading this book it gave me a fantastic insight into how another school in London gives feedback to their pupils and the ideas we are trialling our purely from this case study.

Extremely important to get the settings right within the classroom in order to be able to get the pupils listening correctly in order for them to be able to reflect and make changes within their work.

I verbally gave my feedback to the class with some important tips left on the board. The names in the boxes were pupils who I had either praised for work rate, presentation or fantastic work produced and for the opposite i.e. not having done enough work etc.

Pupils examples of reflection changes within their exercise books.

Pupils examples of reflection changes within their exercise books.

Pupils examples of reflection changes within their exercise books.

Pupils examples of reflection changes within their exercise books.

Some general staff comments sent to me regarding the verbal feedback trial.

The importance of this slide is that we should be using this feedback to help our planning. So not only do the pupils get to become more independent and reflective in their own work but to use this as a planning tool to help sustain rapid progress with our pupils.

CHO - How can we help our student study?

Hi all...


Many thanks to Claire Hollingbery for this sessions on how can we help our students study.


Here are the slides from the CPD... any questions or feedback please write it on the comments box below.