I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
I hope my resources simplify your planning, give you the much needed extra hours for an improved work-life balance and take your teaching to the heights you want it to go.
What is this resource?
It layouts our explicitly the literacy skills that are acquired across the curriculum
Who is it for?
All teachers, TAs, SMT
Curriculum links?
Whole School Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions
What is this resource?
It is for use in double lessons when a mini break is needed
It can be used as starters or plenaries
It can be used to develop EAL students’ speaking and listening skills
Who is it for?
Teachers
EAL teachers/ iteracy Support teachers
SEN teachers
Special Needs teachers
What’s included?
36 topics that can be printed on paper and laminated for re-use
Curriculum links?
Whole School Literacy Programmes, EAL and Literacy Support Sessions
Practical Tips?
Print them in colour on paper and laminate them for reuse
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What is this resource?
This is a simple to use (tried and tested) self and peer pssessment SPAG check using literacy notations.
How do I use it?
The teacher uses these codes when they mark the pupils’ work.
The students then use a green pen and use the teacher’s codes to correct their work before re-drafting their writing (minus the errors).
Alternatively, the check sheet can be used as a peer assessment task – again using a green pen - or as a simple self-assessment task after the teacher has marked the pupils’ exercise book. In this instance, the student examines the corrections the teacher has made and amends the SPAG errors (using the codes) in a green pen.
**Who is it for? **
Whole School Literacy
Curriculum links?
Whole School Marking Policies, Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions
Practical Tips?
It works well as a 10 min starter - if you’re handing back feedback at the beginning of lesson and want to show progression in practice
For use in any department.
Suitable for NQTs or new HODs who might not have a resource bank at hand.
The pack includes:
• Peer Assessment WWW and EBI (with tick/cross SPaG grid)
• Individual Learning Plan templates with suggested targets (for the front of exercise books
• Improving spelling grid at the end of each half term
• Student Voice Survey x 2
• Termly Target Setting Sheet (including Teacher’s Comment section)
• SWOT analysis template
This resource is to assist the development of teachers in your department. The focus is on their progression as they move towards exceptional teaching skills while building a climate of learning.
The resource includes observation templates that achieve the following:
Starter and LO Observation Grid
Development Phase– Observation Grid
Plenary Observation Grid
What is Your Teaching and Learning Balance? Template
Extract from: The Perfect OFSTED Lesson (Pre Observation Checklist)
SWOT: A Post Observation Reflection
Impact on Learning Observation Grid
This is also a valid resource for developing a buddy peer observation system across the school or within departments.
The templates have been tested numeous times across the curriculum in a busy, inner London secondary school, but it could be used in any teaching sector.
Enjoy!
This can be used across the school to encourage student to reflect on their literacy development and self-editing skills.
If you print two slides per 1 piece of A4 it can be easily glued in after a student has completed the work and before the teacher marks it.
It is useful for ensuring students are critically assessing their own work so they become independent learners.
Also, it’s good for showing progression if you’re planning on getting students to re-draft their work after you’ve marked it.
This 6 Hats task is designed to be a whole-school resource for analysing vusual stimulus but it can be adapted to become a kinaesthetic task too (jsut change the wording).
The resource uses sentence starters for differentiation too.
It can be used to analyse newspaper images, historical images, art etc and is especially good as an information gathering task before writing creatively, doing artwork or discussing/responding to historical sources.
Suitable for KS3 and KS4.
Really useful when extending students’ thoughts about a subject and equally good during observations when you need to show you’re extending students’ thinking by analysing more deeply.
For the mobile: print it off in colour, cut up, attach the image of the brain at the top of the mobile, hole punch the question tags and attach them to their specific red banner.
Or just use it for a display that is near your board so you can refer to it repeatedly in lessons.
Suitable for all year groups and all curriculum areas.
What is this resource?
This is a ppt that includes 5 literacy competitions (with examples/models)
Who is it for?
KS2 - KS4
What’s included?
Competition details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed
Curriculum links?
English Department, Drama Department, Whole School Literacy Programmes and Literacy Support Sessions
Practical Tips?
The ppt contains 5 competitions with details and models ready to be enlarged to A3 and displayed
What is this resource?
It is a differentiated worksheet that teaches reluctant readers and students with low literacy skills how to break into written and visual sources so they learn to decode independently
Who is it for?
KS3 - KS4
What’s included?
A set of analytic questions that teach students how to decode texts and images
Curriculum links?
Whole School Literacy Programmes and any curriculum area that draws on sources in its content
These classroom posters are designed to improve the quality of student -teacher dialogue in a learning environment. They’re based on the RESPECT acronym which describes 7 behaviours of highly successful people:
R - resilience
E - expectations
S - scanning
P - pace
E - entrepreneurial
C - collaboration
T - three mistakes or you’re not trying
They can be printed of at any size (including A4 or A5 for diaries or exercise books).
Here are 20 tried and tested starters, plenaries and mini-plenaries that are ready to go.
Please note they are suitable for any curriculum area at Key Stage Three and Key Stage Four and even Primary School lessons .
All you have to do is transfer them to your own Powerpoint or IWB presentations. Some need you to add a statement to one or two, or add the heading of your lesson or the date.