Welcome to the NEW & IMPROVED Cheney Agility Toolkit. For teachers, by teachers.
Use the SEARCH bar or click on TAGS to find something specific. Otherwise, scroll down and find something to Try and Refine!
#ThisTermIWill
Target setting is really important, both for your students and yourself as an educator.Yesterday, a day before English Educators returned Click to read more
Web Learning
Resources: I have been developing two resources that will help teachers across any phase or subject to involve Digital elements Click to read more
Class Tools
I rarely share one website as an individual post here- but this website by +Russel Tarr is incredible!Check it out. http://www.classtools.net…
Text Graphs
Resources:None!What to do:I picked up this activity in a Year 8 English lesson. (Thank you to the my English Dept. Click to read more
What/Who Am I?
Resources:NothingWhat to do:Teacher can present a series of statements on the board or read them out loud. The idea is for Click to read more
Back to Back
Resources:A description/a piece of text.What to do:Students should sit back to back with each other.One by one they should read Click to read more
#TMBett15
Yesterday I presented a 7 minute presentation to over 500 Teachers at the London Excel Arena. (Pretty much identical to Click to read more
Spoken Word
Resources:The below video clips.What to do:Share these songs/raps/music/spoken word with your students in a spare 5 minutes, or as a Click to read more
Wall of Wonderful Words
Resources:None!What to do:I have seen this in an English AST’s class here at my school.She has created a Wall Of Click to read more
Walking Talking Mock
Resources: PowerPoints x4 (AQA Higher, AQA Foundation, Cambridge IGCSE Core, Cambridge IGCSE Extended) Past Papers x 4: (AQA Higher: Jan Click to read more
Plenary Placemats
Resources:Either a placemat per student / pair or you can project from the board. Feel free to edit ones here. Click to read more
Eureka Jar
Resources:An empty jarWhat to do:I noticed this idea on twitter thanks to @ActionJackson MT: @Actionjackson Fill up a jar with notes Click to read more
A-Z of Teaching and Learning
Here is my blog post on my A-Z of Teaching and Learning. Let me know your thoughts? Why not create Click to read more
Prompts
Resources:None!What to do:There are a variety of methods to prompt students. These include: (Taken and adapted from here.) Instructional prompts Example Click to read more
#TMReading
I am proud to be invited as opening keynote speaker for the upcoming #TMReading: At Highdown School RG4 8LR From Click to read more
#TMOxford PRESENTATIONS!
Sign up for #TMOxford 2015 here!This post contains all the presentations from #TMOxfordHere is the storify of the hashtag #TMOxford- Click to read more
TeachMeet SEND
TeachMeet SEND is an opportunity for those working with children with SEND, or those with an interest in this area Click to read more
Marking Medley
Whatever your school’s marking policy is and whatever the expectation you have on you, this post contains a selection of marking Click to read more
Positive Passwords
Resources: Click here or a post about this from @TeamTait from a book called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. What to do: Click to read more
Advent Time
Resources:Click HEREWhat to do:Discover a new book every day with this literacy/reading based advent calendar by the Book Trust!