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Adaptive teaching – What it looks like & why it’s important
What is adaptive teaching? The Teachers’ Standards, which set out the expectation for teachers to ‘adapt teaching to respond to the strengths and needs of all pupils’, were introduced in 2011, but the use of adaptive teaching as a discrete term is more recent.. The Early Career Framework defines it as ‘Provid[ing] opportunity for all pupils to experience success, by adapting lessons ...
Fact file example – How to teach informational writing - Teachwire
Content selection. As with explanation texts, it’s important that children have a good understanding of what they are going to be writing about.. This could be something that they have been studying at school (perhaps some geography, history or science content from the previous half term) which you are confident they have learnt enough about to be able to write about it.
Free CPD for primary and secondary teachers - Teachwire
Find free CPD for teachers here and supercharge your professional development with advice from experts, whether you teach primary or secondary
Free Secondary CPD for teachers - Teachwire
Free assessment CPD. Expand your secondary assessment knowledge and methods in just ten minutes with these bite-sized CPD articles from assessment experts including David Didau and Daisy Christodoulou.
Curriculum sequencing – What to teach and when - Teachwire
How to decide what to teach and when. If a curriculum is to be coherent and follow a logical progression, we need to pay attention to the order in which we introduce and revisit knowledge, in whatever form that might take, say Kat Howard and Claire Hill…
Explanation texts KS2 – How to teach its features – Teachwire
Explanation texts are a versatile and widely adaptable text type to teach in KS2. There are relatively few key features that you need to focus on in order for children to be able to write a good one.
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Free assessment CPD. Expand your primary assessment knowledge and methods in just ten minutes with these bite-sized CPD articles from assessment experts including Daisy Christodoulou and the Oxford assessment team.
Think Pair Share – How to unleash its power in your classroom
What is Think Pair Share? Think Pair Share isn’t just another educational buzzword. It’s an interactive pair share activity designed to ignite critical thinking and communication skills among students, as well as promote classroom discussion. “Think Pair Share isn’t just another educational buzzword”
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Review – Schofield & Sims Fractions, Decimals & Percentages A whole-school programme that provides unparalleled support for a mastery approach to teaching and learning Errors, misconceptions and conceptual obstacles litter the maths terrain. Teaching fractions, decimals and percentages is not for the faint-hearted and requires not only resilience but expertise – these are tricky areas that ...