100 Ideas for Essential Teaching Skills

100 Ideas for Essential Teaching Skills Book Description

100 inspirational ideas on developing essential teaching skills




Each idea has been successfully tried and tested




Ideas range from designing challenging lessons to keep students interested, to organizing your teaching in order to control challenging behaviour.



Contents:




Section 1 Focus Your Teaching


What is the point?
Are we teaching or are they learning?
Are we creating thinkers or doers?
Get to grips with visual/audio/kinaesthetic learning
Address learning styles
Your choice: seminars, workshops, or learning mysteries
Think about independent learning
Use key questions and enquiry questions
Effective long- and medium-term planning
Write schemes of learning
How to ensure pupil progression
Use blooms taxonomy

Section 2 Design Challenging Lessons


Starters: Post-IT!
Starters: Mini whiteboards
Starters: Give it a name
Use mystery objects
Active and hands-on learning: music, camera, action!
Action stations!
Think/pair/share
Making reading and writing enjoyable
Plenaries: that links to...
Plenaries: Solving the learning mystery
Plenaries: Move!
Plenaries: Two-minute talk

Section 3 Deliver Razor-Sharp Lessons


Begin with a story using visual aids
Seeing the end before the beginning
Focused role play
Deconstructing the text
Time keeping
Keeping pace
Make transitions smooth
Adding a development activity

Section 4 Engage Your Pupils


Hook them: Music and images
Hook them: Who am i?
Hook them: Shock tactics
Hook them: Decoding
Teach thinking skills where to pitch an activity
Connecting short- and long-term memory
Make the thinking visible
Debrief pupil thinking
Mind games
Spiral learning revisiting themes and concepts
Active revision
Create a virtual community
Make the most of powerpoint and word
Use the interactive whiteboard effectively
Build a simple and interactive website
Create and use digital video footage

Section 5 Transform Your Teaching to Meet Pupil Needs


Make your lesson into an enquiry
Use questioning to build up effective answers
Get the pupils to ask questions
Develop pupil response
Honesty is the best policy
Placing the learning challenge
Managing differentiated group work
Finding the right task for individuals
Extension activities for the most able enrichment
Feedback and review for gifted and talented pupils
Have real outcomes

Section 6 Move Your Pupils On


Decide when and where to assess
Set clear criteria
Peer and self-assessment
Meaningful feedback
Know your pupils
Stay on top of marking and get ahead
Clever marking
Grades versus comment marking
Use homework to enhance communication skills
Consolidate their learning
Extend their learning
Prepare them for next time
Get pupils to respond to feedback
Next steps approach
Record-keeping and organization
Dealing with pupil progression

Section 7 Working With Your Pupils


Using data effectively
Building the right kind of relationships
Pupil questionnaires
The learning environment matters
People skills
Communication The forgotten skill!
Reasoning and judgement
Joined-up learning
Start with the familiar
The power of personality
Use relevant media
Link work to their lives

Section 8 Bring Order to Your Teaching Life


Grab their attention
Get them on task
Why dont they listen?
Why dont they understand?
Observe specialists
Big brothers watching
Gain a holistic view of pedagogy
A reflective practitioners action plan
Start a teaching and learning project
Expand your horizons good literature
Be innovative teach yourself something new
Join the virtual world (forum/discussion boards)

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