Most resources I develop are geared towards GCSE 2016-18 (AQA and Edexcel) curriculum and are practical solutions to classroom teaching. I keep most of these black and white for simple/cost-effective print.
I read each novel/play/poem and break down into manageable parts.
I find this most effective within classrooms where students require chunks of information they can order, in sequence. The 'study-packs' I create can apply to any book/play/poem and provide visual tools for memory recall.
Most resources I develop are geared towards GCSE 2016-18 (AQA and Edexcel) curriculum and are practical solutions to classroom teaching. I keep most of these black and white for simple/cost-effective print.
I read each novel/play/poem and break down into manageable parts.
I find this most effective within classrooms where students require chunks of information they can order, in sequence. The 'study-packs' I create can apply to any book/play/poem and provide visual tools for memory recall.
Used in class with all year groups. Effective because the student can file the sheets in a specific order and review their progress. The sheet provides an alternative to often messy alterations within exercise books and helps the teacher maintain a working file to allow Ofsted the opportunity to see valid attempts made by student and teacher to develop SPaG. Can also be used as a lesson starter/end or a homework sheet.
A study-support resource. I have used this with all year groups so students can document particular websites/sources and capture/document information they find at the sites. I find that by using a well set-out resource, it keeps them 'on-task'. It also acts as an excellent reference tool, when filed or kept inside of their books.
This resource is four-page A4, containing 12 individual boxes and can be extended to suit.
I find that the four-pages is enough 'per-task', e.g. per Book/Play/Poem.
A completed example of an effective tool for planning/monitoring/tracking the individual lessons between year groups. Particularly effective teacher who may be working between classes. Useful for looking at potential gaps within the weekly/monthly timetable where a wider variety of subject-matter can be injected.
A study document highlighting a range of innovative techniques and classroom additions/resources used in what could become an 'alternative' inspection focus within classroom settings. There are 34 Performance Indicators linked to a learner-focussed environment and linked to a range of items including: Emotional Intelligence; Zero Isolation; Healthy Students; Environmental Awareness and Child Abuse (Confidence in Reporting).
This resource was designed in line with discussions had with a range of inspectors across a variety of education settings, from Primary to Secondary, SEN, Post-16 and in community-based training settings. The comments as feedback on the resource from inspectors was 'excellent'.
Resource shows one example I have filled in and one blank after this - 2 pages. Any school logo can be attached.
This was first introduced at a West-London High School where students I was teaching had low-esteem and needed tasks based on who they were as individuals, i.e. to get then develop their interest in the subject before they could tackle curriculum-based work. I developed it as a means of allowing face-to-face communication to discuss 'their' interests and I based the assignment(s) on this. When a 1000-2000 word assignment is returned to you, with Harvard-referencing notes and a proud, smiling face, by a student who, previously, didn't attend school, it kind of has one questioning whether 'personalised' subject matter can 'still' hit the assessment criteria and create a more harmonious environment.
LIMITED /MANDLESHTAM
BASIC AWARENESS
IDEAS FORMING/SIMPLE
VALID ATTEMPT
APPROPRIATE/SOME CLARITY
ACCURATE/ ORGANISED
RELEVANT/ CONSISTENT
CLEAR/ EFFECTIVE
CONSISTENT, DETAILED, DEVELOPED
CONFIDENT/LACKS ORIGINALITY
PERCEPTIVE/JUDICIOUS
SOPHISTICATED
This resource was used from a discussion with Year 10's who watched the PP 'Insight - A Writer'. This led to them describing how they felt they were not engaged enough in 'free-writing'. Each student then used a single page resource the same as this to express their thoughts, with some fantastic conversational results and some very interesting and quite often abstract subject material.
A resource controlled by students to decide their own exam questions based on their interpretations of any text.
This was used with Year 10's recently (June 2016) with some very in-depth analysis of the varied literature they are studying. It led to them understanding the text at a deeper level, simply by 'them' considering the questions that may be asked of them in a final exam.
Resource used in class to allow pupils/students to plan and map their own learning outcomes, with additional acknowledgement of on-going targets and understanding and measuring of effectiveness of classroom teaching practice.
A tool first used in a training environment working with L2-L3 Teaching Assistants. The 'mountain&' concept is introduced with the whole class working as a team throughout the 12-week course where it is explained that the &';team' progress takes into account the slowest learner to ensure 'nobody is left on the ground'.
As a visual-tool to promote development in class the Learner continually adds to each block of the mountain and gradually observes as their journey unfolds towards their peak.
A Today Sheet developed to allow the Teacher to decide the day-to-day Outcomes and classroom focus 'with&' the learner involvement, i.e. the Learners participate in deciding their own Today-plan. The use of this resource was graded a 1 via external inspection and linked/was supported by the Learner ILP.
Keith is a 28-year-old student I worked with throughout a 12-week period. Early on in the Teaching Assistant course he described his knowledge of ‘child-development’ as a subject area, as this applied to a number of ‘transitions’ worked through in his own life and how ‘resilient’ and independent he had become as a result. His ‘story’ was result of him relaying his thoughts on ADHD and the prescribing of drugs to him at Age 7. This document was created with the intention that another child/parent/teacher may benefit from his words.
Your ability to study and participate in English Speaking, Reading and Writing extends beyond the classroom. You can capture using this chart the evidence of how you have continued to develop your skill-level in your own home environment.
Specified use for any classroom environment to capture the level of 'outside of school&' development each student is making. Can be used as part of collaborative process with parents.
A simple but effective Timeline tool for use with Learners to assist their visual focus towards what they want to achieve in their lives. The resource can be adapted to assist personal development and reflection; exploring issues from the past that effect the future; target-setting; forward-planning. I use this tool generally on A3-paper and some of the results with individual learners have been very insightful.
