Tuesday 7 July 2009
Addtional Support
Monday 6 July 2009
Additional Support
I am able to offer 4 hours this Thursday 9th July to the first school who reponds on this blog. If you do not need a whole day then perhaps an hour or so could be opended up to other teachers in nearby schools to drop in and/or work collaboratively.
Thursday 2 July 2009
Workshop Worked out Well
Therefore take a look below for the names and courses that you have in common. Then when I get access to my address book I'll add the email adresses in so that you can contact eachother directly.
Kelly Hearn Smith - AQA double and additional applied science, AQA AS & A2, OCR nationals from Sept 09 - JOG; staffkhe@johnofgaunt.wilts.sch.uk
Sarah Frew - AQA double and additional applied, OCR from Sept 09 - JOG;
sfrew@johnofgaunt.wilts.sch.uk
Chris HArvey - AQA double applied science - George Ward; HarveyC@georgeward.wilts.sch.uk
Nic Bateman - KS4 additional AQA applied, KS5 AQA applied starting Sept 09 - Abbeyfield; njb@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk
Abbie Lang - Btech, possible change in the future or KS5 applied; St John's, Marlbourough; ALanng@stjohns.wilts.sch.uk
Suzanne Clare - OCR national from Sept 09; Castledown (The Wellington Academy from Sept); suzanneclare@hotmail.com
Sandra Rigg - AQA additional applied from Sept 09 - Wyvern; srigg@wyverncollege.wilts.sch.uk
Philippa Denham - additional AQA applied from Sept 09 - Matravers; pdenham@matravers.wilts.sch.uk
Claire Chard - OCR addtional applied 21st Century - Wooton Bassett; CCH@wootonbassett.wilts.sch.uk
Paul Townsend - additional applied AQA - Lavington; p.townsend@lavington.wilts.sch.uk
Caroline Laugier - OCR additional applied Gateway - St Joseph's Salisbury; claugier@st-josephs-salisbury.wilts.sch.uk
Liz Manzi- AQA additional applied - Sheldon; e.manzi@sheldonschool.co.uk
Monday 29 June 2009
Lesson Outcomes
USING LEVELLED LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This leaflet re-emphasizes the impact that using objectives effectively can have on student progress and the climate for learning in all classrooms in all lessons. Clear guidance is given and the setting of good learning objectives is non-negotiable at John of Gaunt.
Why bother?
Levelled objectives:-
§ Focus planning
§ Ensure that all students are challenged and motivated
§ Improve behaviour
§ Make sure activities are relevant
§ Lead to more effective learners
§ Help students to ‘enjoy and achieve’
Kelly Hearn-Smith has visited many schools as an Advanced Skills Teacher and one teacher she has supported stated:
“using differentiated levelled objectives had an immediate impact. I couldn’t believe how such a little thing could make such a huge improvement to my lessons”.
IT IS ESSENTIAL TO PLAN YOUR LESSONS FROM THE OBJECTIVES – THEY GUIDE YOUR PLANNING
Most teachers have adopted the:
§ I must …
§ I should …
§ I could …
framework.
NB:-
§ Learning objectives must be shared and visual.
§ Objectives are part of a lesson structure that includes a starter activity and a plenary.
§ Learning tasks are designed so that the objectives are met.
§ Learning objectives are not about tasks, they are about student understanding.
§ The following information is designed to help all teachers use language that is to do with understanding when setting objectives.
Always tell the students why this lesson is important or relevant
LEVELLED OBJECTIVES – A KS3 EXAMPLE
BLOOMS LANGUAGE TO USE IN OBJECTIVES
APPROX NATIONAL CURRICULUM LEVELS
Level 3/4: I must Understand and Comprehend
Name, state, define, give examples, identify, sort, categorise, classify, recall, recognise, locate, describe, assess, clarify, examine, interpret, reflect, summarise, decide.
Level 5/6: I should Analyse and Apply
Apply your knowledge to, demonstrate, model, implement, organise, sequence, visualise. Identify patterns, components, cause problems, consequences. Prioritise, infer.
Level 7/8: I could: Synthesise and Evaluate
Create, improve, develop, adapt, combine, convert, design, formulate, hypothesise, juxtapose, link, plan, predict, make, transform, translate, judge, justify, critically evaluate, compare and contrast, discriminate, distinguish, experiment, extrapolate.
AND ALSO:
· Do you know (from available data) which students will be working to achieve the learning objectives in your lessons?
· Have you told the students individually and sensitively (not publicly) which objective is their goal in a lesson.
· Do your objectives and consequently your planning enable students to have 70% student activity and 30% maximum teacher activity?
· Does the plenary allow every student to assess which objective they achieved and even to write on their work,
“in today’s lesson I focused on a level _____ objective”.
HOMEWORK
You can use the plenary and review to set individual homework tasks in the light of individual progress in a lesson
Vocational Science Workshop
A lucky 13 teachers are meeting on 2nd July to develop ideas for projects and ideas to develop the skills and independance of students.
Watch out for the exicting new things which you will be able to find on 3rd!