Review last weeks' Powerpoint

failure is a key part of success

Register your social media

For further information follow the following links on Sharepoint

Social media register

E Safety policy

Learner Expert Panel says

Targets on ID badges

Clarify your instructions

Visable Assesment plans

Shared teaching from our friends at Coleg Gwent. 

Thanks for this!

Self Assess your lessons before your students - Induction Survey starts

What do your students already know?

Use this as a way to introduce a new subject

OR

to recap from a previous lesson

Create a 3D sculpture with Play Doh

 

5 new, fresh boxes of play doh are now in the Teacher Learning Centre for you to borrow.  It brings fun, smell, touch, colour and 3 dimension to your students learning.

Ask your students to RAG rate

Team approach

New Teaching, Learning and Assessment site on SharePoint

Hopes, fears and expectations - an induction activity

Last tip of the year

Tips from January 2013 to July 2013

Tips from August 2012 to December 2012

Moodle tip - a conversation

 

Assignment Overload?

For a video demonstrating how Turnitin and Moodle work - click here.  For more information - contact Alan Yeodal.

Use a ruler when completing SRF's

To help with enquiries please ensure you always provide

- College course code

- Edexcel Programme Number

- A Students college reference or DOB as well as their name

As you will be aware SRFs are printed by Pearson after registration in October. Lists are enclosed with each batch of BTEC programmes. UCAS students have been highlighted. We will be following up SRFs from the list.

If you have a SRF for Withdrawn students or students not completing, please ensure you return these completed accordingly so we don’t keep reporting these as ’not returned’.

Instructions to claim WORKSKILLS courses will follow in due course.

SRFs should be returned to the Exams office, in whole batches/cohorts where possible,

Please remember:

TOP WHITE COPY	TO EXAMS
YELLOW COPY	TO EXAMS
PINK COPY	TO STUDENT

Collect some learner views for your course reviews

For more information watch the very short demonstration video at
www.tricider.com

OR for a more detailed explanaition visit http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/tricider/index.html

Check the learning from last week

Students write on the post it notes at the start of the lesson and place on the white board.  In the first activity or the break, the teacher checks the post-its and then adjusts the next part of the session to look at the ? and ! - whilst congratulating them on the :-)

Library Book Boxes

BlockBusters Quiz - recap time

Link is to BlockBusters quiz

Save precious time in SharePoint

Thank you to Rachael Collier who showed us this tip.  It really does save precious seconds everytime you open or save a document in SharePoint.

Warm up with Maths and English

Functional Skills Double Tip

EMBEDDING MATHS AND ENGLISH FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

Pose, Pause, Pounce, Bounce

Reflect on the objectives before and after

To vary this - introduce different ways of reflecting.
For example

• work on the grid in pairs
• put each objective up on a different wall and ask learners to complete a post it note and add to it.
• Complete it as a whole class on the interactive white board

You can of course refer to the objectives and compelte the reflection as you go through the lesson - and use it as a way to record/check learning.

Can your class take the E&D Challenge?

This activity, in particular, gave Mr Redmond (The E&D Champion 2012) a real focus and challenge for a month, and he took it on himself to win it!  The discussions promoted deeper thinking, problem solving, evaluation, synthesis and of course helped the class become more open minded and grounded individuals.  Thank you Mike George for laying down the challenge!

Show me boards

Pop into H002a (Teacher Learning Space) and pick up a few tips/tricks on how to use "show me" boards - then borrow them for a session - if you like them -go buy some.  Teacher training team and coaching team can't go anywhere without them!

What did you do yesterday?

 

At the beginning of every session, teachers can ask this question - sometimes you may have to get other students to prompt certain learners to remind them that they did learn "something" yesterday.

 

Sometimes it can be done the otherway round:

Share

Pair

Think/reflect

Train your students to use a rnage of questions



The resources include a session plan, play doh, questionning cards, task sheet and a short video.  Pop into H002a, the Teacher Learning Centre and find out more - it could be the 45 minute lesson you have been looking for!!

Click here to watch a short 3 minute video demonstrating Blooms taxonomy and questioning in action
"i-phone meets Bloom"



Good planning makes good learning

 

Good planning makes good learning.

Copies of templates for Scheme of Work, Group Profile, Sesion plans with exemplars (and short videos) can be found on sharepoint here

 

Compared to all other elements of good or outstanding learning eg. session plans, ILT, E&D, checking of learning, raport etc - teachers who had a good Group Profile or good Scheme of Work were 20% more likely to have their session graded a 2 or a 1.  Good planning makes good learning.