Ice Cream tubs were used by Stuart King. Each tub contained a small prop and an image. Students then completed the following chart (individually) - one line per ice cream tub!
Each week the Teaching and Learning team create a teaching tip for the staff.
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These tips are often themes that are arising in observations, learning walks and sometimes are simply best practice that has been seen.
Tuesday 11 December 2012
What's in the envelopes or boxes?
Ice Cream tubs were used by Stuart King. Each tub contained a small prop and an image. Students then completed the following chart (individually) - one line per ice cream tub!
Monday 3 December 2012
Create 3D sculpture
Many thanks for our visiting friends at Colleg Gwent who today played with Play-Doh in our Staff Development session and shared ideas, creating some of the photos above!
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EMAIL MATT ANY PHOTOS OF YOUR SCULPTURES - PLEASE DO, AND I WILL ATTACH TO THIS BLOG.
Thursday 29 November 2012
PowerPoint with a countdown timer
Here is a link to a 3 minute film showing how to embed video timer into Powerpoint: 3 minute film
PLEASE ENSURE WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR POWERPOINTS IN FUTURE YOU
CLICK THE ENABLE BUTTON
Monday 26 November 2012
Lines of communication in your teacher
Wednesday 21 November 2012
220 students were asked if their lessons started on time. The majority of students said "yes".
However, a large number of learners said "The lecturer may turn up on time, but sometimes the lesson does not start for 15 - 20 minutes - it's just lots of explanation and talk about 'stuff'. We feel like the lesson starts when we actually get asked to DO something".
So advice from the students: "Make us do something, anything, in the first 5 minutes - then we consider the lesson to have started! We then switch on and are ready to learn, listen and engage."
Leon Smith now has active students in seconds . . . how? Watch this link
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Students lead the promotion of E&D
Before setting this up, spend 15 minutes or so discussing and brainstrorming the importance of Equality and Diveristy and how it relates to the work place or the subject the students are studying. The lectuer needs to get the student "buy in" to make this work. You may want to encourage the "E&D monitor" to bring in an item from the news (news paper, website) to discuss for 5 minutes at the start of every class, and follow this theme through the lesson.
You may want to open the E & D monitor up to the whole class. A number of classroom observations have noted that staff are not picking up on opportunities to promote E & D - set this up, and hopefully, the class will lead the way!
UPDATE:
Here is the poster that Stuart King used in his session to kick start students discussing - checking first that students knew why all these pictures were important:
Monday 5 November 2012
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