Richard Durant:

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Richard Durant

• Improving teaching and learning with the KS3
  Strategy

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Improving teaching and learning

• Good teaching

• What it is

• How to get it

• How to keep it

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Good teaching what it is

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

• What helped you to learn?

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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

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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

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Good teaching what it is

• Objectives are..
• what students will have learnt by the end of the
  lesson

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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 readers
  emotional response
• Substitute an integer into a simple formula

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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.

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Good teaching what it is

• Video of the teaching of writing
• Notice how the teacher uses stages 3-6 of
• the sequence for teaching writing
• 3. Explore the features of the text.
• 4. Define the conventions.
• 5. Demonstrate how it is written.
• 6. Compose together.

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Good teaching what it is

• Ways of thinking about teaching
• Know, show, share, pair, perfect, reflect
• Socio-cultural perspectives
• Ofsted

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Good teaching what it is

• In the lessons that were good or better the
  teachers
• specified 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 weaknessesthe teachers lacked
• strategies to check understandingduring 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

• Monitoring

• Data how effective are we?

• Performance management

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Good teaching How to get it
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Good teaching How to get it

• The Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools
  series

Lesson Design Teaching Pupils Who Make Slower Progress Modelling Questioning 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.