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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction as a Whole-School Literacy Strategy
Whole-School Literacy: Where to Begin Last week at Durrington High School we spent a part of our INSET refocusing our whole-school literacy strategy. This began through comparing literacy to a toolbox that students can, and should, have available in every curriculum area. In … Continue reading
Classroom culture: high expectations and challenge
Growing a strong classroom culture is the aim of every teacher. In order for this culture to mature and bear fruit, it must be rooted in challenge and expectations. In this week’s teaching forum, geography teacher Hannah Townsend shares her reflections on what she has done over the past four … Continue reading
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Effective CPD – Subject Planning and Development Sessions in Maths
Last year at Durrington we introduced a new approach to CPD – Subject Planning & Development Sessions. The idea behind them is very straightforward – once a fortnight subject teams meet and discuss, what are we teaching over the next … Continue reading
Bright Spots: high ability
This week Shaun Allison and I walked around the school and visited several lessons focusing on the teaching of high ability students. We dropped into English, maths and science top sets, observing the teaching and learning strategies that were being employed. Most teaching … Continue reading
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Bright Spots: 9th November 2017
Today Fran Haynes and I walked around the school and visited a number of lessons. It was great to see so much effective practice, that we will summarise in the ‘bright spots’ post. We think it’s important to talk about … Continue reading
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Working effectively with disadvantaged children
The focus of this week’s Teaching Forum is working effectively with disadvantaged children. I spoke to maths teacher Sam Down – an assistant head with responsibility for raising the achievement of disadvantaged children – about how to go about this successfully. … Continue reading
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80-20 – paring down the knowledge
In the autumn of 2016 with the English Literature exam looming large on the horizon, English teacher Tod Brennan decided to alter both the curriculum he was delivering and the manner he was teaching it. In this week’s teaching forum Tod shared how he used the ideas behind … Continue reading
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