Revise Write Check What is needed: A3 paper Black pen Coloured pen/felt tip Notes (from class or revision) How it works: Fold A3 paper twice. Students prioritise 5-15 points, figures, quotes, and words (whatever you want them to remember) You …
Resources:Drama Dollars- Click HERE How It Works: Students will be given a certain amount of dollars at the start of a practical task and will have to buy: props costumes use of lighting buy access to a particular skill or theatre convention …
Spinning Tops A spinning top can add an element of fun and creativity to you lesson, and can be created in advance by you or even easier made by the pupils. Resources: Paper, ready for pupils to cut …
Resources: Posters stuck up in each corner of the room? How It Works: When a teacher has set a task and activity has been completed; to check on the understanding of the students, how about you ask them to move to …
Resources: Download posters here– Print and place around school? Print into student planners? Get your students to make their own? Download the app= Phoster/Diptic These were created by www.twitter.com/teachertrying
Resources: Star stickers (cheap in Wilkinsons/poundland/hobby craft etc) A list of what they need to do to achieve the stars How it works: Tell the class that by the end of the lesson there is going to be a star …
Resources: Dictionaries Textbooks Revision Guides Laptops? Image from- https://twitter.com/brittwright22 who set up her own help desk after seeing this post 🙂 How It Works:Dedicate a space in your classroom where students can simply get up and go and seek help at …
Cards to get students Bloomin’ thinking Resources: A set of Celebrity Cards, available on a Word doc. by clicking here–NEW updated Cards here by J Chappell. Rationale: The cards are a mixture of Bloom’s Taxonomy and De Bono’s Hats. The power …
Resources:Stickers- Red/Yellow/GreenHow It Works: Further to my video- which can be seen here about how to use stickers to signify progress, I have designed this simple strategy. Firstly, a checklist is needed- your exam board might be able to provide …
Resources:Nothing- your normal presentation & task… How It Works:First arrange the desks in your classrooms where students will be facing each other. But one student/pair has their back to the board. (One student/pair shouldn’t be able to see the board …
Flow Chart Activity: This activity allows students to make decisions or identify the differences and similarities. How it works: The flow chart activity is used as a starter so students can identify the different- in this case stage shapes. Students …
UPDATEResources:Handout/Explanation of the Magenta PrinciplesHow It Works:Whenever students are presented with a text/information/facts etc they are to use one or more magenta principles… reduce change assemble search connect arrange enlarge simplift classify compare and contrast deconstruct apply prioritise act it …
Resources: A prescription template How It Works: Students become doctors! They diagnose an essay, piece of writing, classwork, homework etc- based on the symptoms– i.e Mark scheme, writing frame etc. The doctor then writes on the prescription template what the …
The Knowledge Bank This links to the ‘Think Tax’ post- in your class… At the start of the new unit of study, each student is given an amount of ‘knowledge coins’. Students gain or spend coins based on the level …