Swanshurst School Document System

It is essential from the learner perspective, that when we are handling number as part of the learning experience, that we use the same approaches for, for instance, constructing bar charts. The approaches are simple and need to be accessed from the numeracy website, created by the numeracy action group. It helps the learner to develop transferability of skill when they have the techniques reinforced, using the same materials, in maths, and in geography, and in science, and in technology, and in…… They become more numerate as a result, which improves achievement and attainment in most subject areas !

Study Skills powerpoint and posters to promote a toolkit of skills to assist Year 11 with revision techniques. The skills include mnemonics, memory through story, table of difference and mind mapping.Learn to learn briefing

Strategies for Assessment for Learning - TES article Julie Henry.Forget the marking, start talking!

Posters for deptsPosters for depts

Pedagogy and Practice Pack on effective questioning.Pedagogy and Practice Pack on effective questioning.

This document contains general guidance, in the form of a checklist, to support teachers and schools implementing assessment for learning.QCA research into AFL and a very useful checklist

Research based principles to guide classroom practiceResearch based principles to guide classroom practice

The success of formative assessment at an Oxfordshire schoolC0492001_340k http://www.teachers.tv/subjectBlockProgramme.do?transmissionBlockId=191001&zoneId=2&transmissionProgrammeId=190476 The success of formative assessment at an Oxfordshire school

This link was recommended by Neville Hopton - it has many valuable suggestions for use of ICT resources and their use across all subject areas. Take a look!

These sheets are used by English to assess reading and writing. They are excellent at ensuring the students engage with their targets, their current level, and what they need to do next in order to improve

This is a summary of some G&T ideas from the Modern Foreign Languages department.

This is a summary of some G&T ideas from the Science department.

This is a summary of some G&T ideas from the English department.

How two NQTs approach differentiationC0526001_340k.wmv Differentiation http://www.teachers.tv/subjectBlockProgramme.do?transmissionBlockId=143081&zoneId=2&transmissionProgrammeId=144304 How two NQTs approach differentiation Strategies

Setting pupil targets

Level 6 Writing example

Without feedback students do not know how to improve and build on previous work. Apart from facial expressions and body language, feedback can be given by written or oral means. This presentation explores the merits of both and a case study of each.

A survey of pupils attitudes towards peer and self marking was carried out with a year 8 english class. It highlighted a number of issues that need to be considered by the teaching when building this form of assessment into lessons and schemes of work

This presentation has been used by the geography department to demonstrate how actual pupils have responded to a certain written task. The responses are progressively more developed and highlight for the pupils how to achieve quality in their work

Gemma Hares demonstrates how she has supported pupils to move to higher levels by asking them to engage with written descriptions of what they need to do to achieve each level. By doing this before they start an assessment, perhaps as a starter activity, pupils are made more aware of how to improve their work.

A scheme that aims to help children think for themselves012050050X_340k.wmv Thinking Skills: Child Philosophers http://www.teachers.tv/strandProgramme.do?strandId=6&transmissionProgrammeId=150000

Implementing whole-brain learning techniques012050049X_340k School Matters - Thinking Skills http://www.teachers.tv/strandProgramme.do?strandId=6&transmissionProgrammeId=111960

Classroom Practice - Strategies for teaching Gifted and Talented students; a school where gifted and talented teaching is extensiveC0452001_340k Classroom Practice http://www.teachers.tv/subjectBlockProgramme.do?transmissionBlockId=112473&zoneId=2&transmissionProgrammeId=111127

This interesting teachernet article suggests many approaches and strategies for raising motivation of students in your classroom (this was pre-conference reading)

Use these materials, from the excellent DfES Pedagogy and Practice : Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools pack. The feedback from the pilot project was that these are seriously useful tools for developing classroom practice. Use them to support your own development - particularly useful in supporting teaching and learning targets of Performance Management and providing a focus for lesson observations. These materials are particularly successful if you work with somebody else to support you. See Andrea Marsden or Guy Shears for DVD clips.

This powerpoint was the one that supported Janice and Lynn's excellent conference workshop entitled 'have you lost your class?' Use it to remind yourself of the content, or to go through the session with your colleagues at a team meeting or similar.

Examining the use of search engines, how they work, how we can make better use of them ourselves and why we must teach our pupils to think critically about the information they find on the Internet.

Information literacy; Teaching Sobia to think!!

Examining the use of search engines, how they work, how we can make better use of them ourselves and why we must teach our pupils to think critically about the information they find on the Internet.

More often we are using the Internet as a tool for teaching. There are many effective uses but surely the biggest advantage is the access it gives our pupils to information. The ability to evaluate the content they find and critically assess its relevance are skills that will become vital to our pupils as the use of this medium increases. This links in this section look at ways in which we can understand more about the information we find on the Internet and illustrate some of the pitfalls we need to help our pupils avoid.

I. What is a search engine and how does it work?

This is a great resource from classzone.com covering all the relevant issues concerning search engines.

II. How google works!!,

Many of us have asked our pupils to use Google to search for information but how many of us know how Google works? Find out and become a power user of Google thanks to this guide from Alan November.

III. It must be true I read it on the net!

The following examples, of possible pitfalls our pupils may face, are three reasons that justify a need for an understanding of Information Literacy.

For many years web designers have tried to get their sites to the top of search engine lists. The same techniques these designers used for this can also be used to push political propaganda.

Go to Google and type in the keywords “miserable failure”

Click here for an explanation as to how this search leads to the White House web site.

This link tells the story of Zac and how he was misled into believing that the holocaust never happened!

Go to Google and put in a search for Martin Luther King. Study the first page of links that are produced. By looking at the URL’s choose which site(s) you feel would be suitable for your pupils to use.

Once you have done this click here

See the presentation

IV. Evaluating URL’s

A great link that helps to make sense of URL’s (web page addresses)

V. Grammar of the internet Information Literacy

Some useful links to resources and issues concerned with evaluating information and web sites

VI. Evaluating websites

Guidelines for evaluating web sites. Including a printable pdf sheet that you could give to pupils.

VII. Web search quiz

Have a go at this search quiz using search engines of your choice.

Try using the tips from “how Google works” with the advanced search facility!

A guide to interactive whiteboards

Some interesting starters

The document contains suggestions of lots of excellent activities to start a lesson. It is really worth a look !

This site was developed by the G&T South Area network geographers, led by Swanshurst. The site offers teacher guidance on delivering a range of thinking skills activities, building upon the CPD by David Leat in 2001. The materials are Geography specific, but the pedagogy is transferable to many subject areas

View this powerpoint to see the main strands of the implementation of the key stage 3 strategy in RS at Swanshurst. If you are interested in more information, or would like to arrange to see an aspect of the implementation in action please contact Sarah Barnett.

These are examples of whiteboard activities used within science lessons. If you would like to see the use of a whiteboard in a science lesson, or would like to discuss the creation and use of these types of activities within your subject area, please contact either Jamie Fox or Sam Holyman.

A thinking skills exercise where pupils have to analyse the information to make deductions about his life.

This is primarily a sorting exercise, but by asking the pupils to link the sentences together you are encouraging them to develop full length explanations.

The pupils are given an evidence sheet and are asked to investigate the fire to work out causes and reasons for why it spread so quickly. They can then offer suggestions for how to avoid similar problems in the future.

Have a look at the 3D maths puzzles here.

This powerpoint accompanied the Assessment for Learning workshop led by John Hopkin. There are some useful links within it, and also the tasks have been added so that if you attended the workshop you can run through this with colleagues, perhaps at a team meeting. Elaine Kenney will be leading a team to develop whole school AfL strategies and approaches in the spring.