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'Top ten' essentials
Strategies which we have found particularly helpful in Brighton & Hove
This page conveniently brings together resources and tips from around the Secondary Strategy webpages.
- Starters
- Plenaries
- Assessment for Learning
- Questioning
- Feedback (new March 6th)
- Equipment loan (new June 5th)
- Pupil whiteboards
- Games templates
- A Flying Start. Starter activities developed from work in Brighton & Hove schools, formatted for production in booklet form. Copies were distributed locally in Sept 2002 (466kb, pdf).
- Some starter ideas for MFL lessons (416kb, pdf).
- Hazards of plenaries - and how to avoid them
Loads of ideas and suggestions for activities and improvements for the plenary part of English lessons, including useful comments about plenaries from the DfES and Ofsted. Compiled by Chris Marshall. (200kB, Word)
Assessment for Learning: back to top
- Traffic-light your marking - step by step, with examples (24kb, Word).
Traffic-lighting test results can pinpoint specific areas of weakness both across the subject and for individual pupils - this straightforward process can focus your teaching effort and enable you give high quality feedback to pupils. Try it now with this sample spreadsheet (55kb, Excel). - 'Being clear about learning goals, and sharing learning intentions'.
A short booklet from the Assessment for Learning project used to support training (68kb, Word).
Questioning: back to top
- 'Questions worth asking' (127 kb, pdf).
A new booklet from the Brighton & Hove AfL project - concise advice and real practical strategies for improving your questioning skills to enhance your own teaching and your pupils' motivation. Ideally reproduced as an A5 booklet. March 2003.
Questioning skills (291kb, Word).
This booklet accompanied a training event in November 2002 - how does questioning contribute to assessment for learning? How can we develop questioning techniques to engage all pupils and promote active learning?
Feedback back to top
Feedback - a booklet from Carole Sullivan, arising from the Brighton & Hove Assessment for Learning Project, and presented to the Support Group in March 2003. Designed for printing as an A5 booklet.
Equipment loan - contact Andrea Kerr on 01273 294208
Interactive Whiteboards & projectors - Promethean. We have four portable 48" ActivBoards - first come first served!
See sample work on the Promethean website or from BoardWorks, general advice from Becta, a summary of their May '03 Q&A session, or critiques and studies from Greenwich LEA and Mirandanet. Your contributions to this section are invited.
Individual pupil whiteboards back to top
We would go so far as to say these are an indispensible resource - they have proved extremely popular with schools and are available at very reasonable cost from suppliers such as the TTS Group as follows:
- 30 whiteboards (code B-BRD) £14.95 + VAT
- or class kit: 30 boards, erasers, pens, all in zip-lock bags (code B-KIT) £33.00 + VAT (information correct September 2005)
- Tel 0800 318686. Fax 0800 137525 (call for catalogue and whiteboards flyer with other variants)
- Mail: Nunn Brook Road, Huthwaite, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts NG17 2HU. email: sales@tts-group.co.uk
Items can be found under the english or maths sections of the shopping part of the TTS website.
Producing a card-sort or loop game: back to top
- Tips to simplify production (25kb, Word).
- A template (19kb, Word).
- Loop games: use the technique above to create the cards, but ensure that the answer to the last question is positioned in the table where it would be on the reverse of the first question - each answer is moved on down the column, like this (20kb, Word). Instead of cutting out each individual card, cut out the rows, fold them in half and stick down to create a card with a question on the front and an answer (to a different question) on the back. In this way, assuming you have equal numbers of participants as questions, each will get a turn and finish back at the beginning.
- A 'taboo game' template. Taboo is a game involving describing given words WITHOUT being able to use those words which most naturally come to mind, i.e describe 'pizza' without being able to use 'round', 'flat', 'tomato', 'Italy' etc. What about 'evaporation', without using 'water', vapour', 'heat', or 'gas'. The template provides a space for the given word and another for pupils to note the 'taboo' descriptive words. The game can be played as a paired guessing game, in groups or as a whole class, and is useful in developing deeper level understanding of terminology, accessible to poorer readers, and helpful in diagnosis. This template has been constructed using two 'styles' to speed preparation and enable it to be used 'on line' by pupils if desired. Visit the Plenaries page for more on games.
'Word' tip and tricks back to top
Version 2 (150kb, Word) out now - with added Internet Explorer tips at the back. Mostly of interest to those still using Word as part of Office 98, and printed ideally as an A5 booklet.
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Last updated 02-Sep-05
