These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
This sheet is used to gather all info on a pupils progress throughout Key Stage 3 from 2 to 4. Passed with summative assessment from teacher to teacher to fill in so that teachers can get a full and detailed overview of each indovidual pupil.
This is a PP that I used to present to OFQUAL and other manchester schools about using the functioanl skills qualifications in English - may have some good ideas for other school leaders. / Heads of English or deliverers of FS 1 and 2
I designed these very simple self evaluation questionairres for pupils as part of their mentoring process. Pupils fill these in by asking teachers their levels and it encourages them to take ownership of their learning.
A very interesting pp that gets staff thinking about the boys / girls learning debate - great for using prior to introducing underachieving boys tactics
Building on the other resources that I have uploaded for setting up a school magazine, this is a full lesson PP with the L/Os: To practise using punctuation.
To understand how magazine covers appeal to different audiences.
To plan my own magazine cover for the school magazine.
Building on my other resources for setting up a school magazine, this lesson has the L/Os:
to explore a comment text found in a newspaper.
to decide on an issue I might like to write about for the School Magazine.
This full lesson PP would be used with the self evaluation log that I uploaded some weeks ago to help pupils work out how to fill it in - so that you can model and show them step by step.
As part of the profile of heightening the awareness of meetings and making it feel like something very special, I created this invite to the meetings - all ready for you to put the time and date on!
This is a worksheet that I've given to new TAs / PGCE students to support them in using the internet and word to create worksheets - for those that are new ish to PCs etc.
There are three different types attached here that excuse pupils from class and explain what they're doing to raise money - I use them with my form when we raise money for CIN.
This resource includes a full Reading, Writing and Communication Policy for secondary schools, that is based on the KS2/KS3 Glossary for the National Curriculum. The SPAG terms from the glossary are split into each half term so that they can be incorporated into lessons for all teachers, across all subject areas.
In this resource, there is a full overview of the policy and then 3 Glossaries - one for three of the half terms. I didn't complete the other three, unfortunately. The glossaries are to support teachers of other subjects with some of the more difficult terms.
The policy includes the following:
Literacy Focus: - Based on what is being taught in English (reading and Writing)
Spelling Focus: - Taken from the KS2 programmes of Study
Spoken Language Focus: - Basics expected at all times / in all places – taken from the KS3 strands. Some additions based on recapping KS2 and developing those in KS3 POS.
Key Terms – Spread throughout the year using the Non-Statutory KS3 Glossary
Central to this policy is setting up Communication Leaders in schools, where pupils with strong literacy skills are trained to support those that may need it. Therefore, also included is the full training to set this up.
This is a full powerpoint with resources at the back of it, designed to help someone to lead a twilight session (approximately 1 1/2hrs to 2hrs) on why we need to differentiate and ideas of how it can be done.
The session is interactive with little exercises for the teachers to take art in s that they can consider the impact of the structures for differentiating in their own classrooms.
Training covers differentiation for different types of learners as well as ability.
If you're buying this, you will need to have some knowledge of differentiation to deliver it, so that you can deconstruct the activities after you have tried them with the trainees.