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and REWARDREWARDPut a WelcomeWelcome

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Classroom scriptsClassroom scripts• You can if you think you can• Which bit don’t you understand yet?• Up till now this has been a problem ... and ...• ““What have I learned today?What have I learned today?””• ““How do I knowHow do I know??””• “What do I need to know to get to the next level?”• By the end of the lesson you will be able to ... WhatWhat’’s the s the best best way for you to learn this?way for you to learn this?• “I have a responsibility for the way my partners learn”• Affirm the future in the present tense• You are excellent at spelling• You are a brilliant writer / mathematician / thinker

Give choices and choices and challengechallenge:

• You could do activity 3• You could do activity 5,• Your choice, you decide …

Constructive conjunctions Constructive conjunctions

and phrasesand phrases• Your work is OK and I want you to ...• Now we’re going to start

something entirely new ...• And finally ...

• That’s not like you ...

Let’s talk PROGRESSPROGRESS … try

• MSC and MSM• Target partners• E1T1• Self and peer assessment

•© Graham Tyrer and Patrick Taylor 2013

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Examples of reductionreduction• Prioritise• Rank• Summarise in xxx words• Pick out the main points from ...• Pick out the hardest bit of ...• Key word, highlight, underline• Retitle and caption

Lesson structuresLesson structures

VerbaliseVerbalise

TeachTeach

ReduceReduce

AskAsk

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“Could you tell me / partner what you understand by ..”“This will help me reach my target because …”Starter

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Offer Big Picture

Give new information

Reinforce or review it

Make sense of itMake sense of it

Examples of MIQMIQ transformationtransformation• Mind map the information• Hotseat• Still picture• Retell as a story / poem / song• Chart it / Venn diagram the info• Sequence the knowledge•Debate / interrogate info.

• Memory house• Make a mnemonic• Make a values continuum• Devise 20 questions about the info• Discuss applications for the info• Innovate: ask “ What if ?”

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“I listen with my ear, my heartand my undivided attention”

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Review and Review and retentionretention

•Ask open questionsopen questions• Allow wait time • Give advanced warning of a question• Ask a follow up question• Try “What made you think of that?” – ask for more than one answer • Try: “This is the answer. What is the question?”

When is your 10 Minute Plenary10 Minute Plenary – at the beginning, middle or end?

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Improving learningImproving learning

Review and Review and retentionretention

Examples of reductionreduction• Prioritise• Rank• Summarise in xxx words• Pick out the main points from ...• Pick out the hardest bit of ...• Key word, highlight, underline• Retitle and caption

Lesson structuresLesson structures

•Ask open questionsopen questions• Allow wait time • Give advanced warning of a question• Ask a follow up question• Try “What made you think of that?” – ask for more than one answer • Try: “This is the answer. What is the question?”

VerbaliseVerbalise

TeachTeach

ReduceReduce

AskAsk

TransformTransform

“Could you tell me / partner what you understand by ..”“This will help me reach my target because …”

When is your 10 Minute Plenary10 Minute Plenary – at the beginning, middle or end?

Starter

MainMain

Plenary

Offer Big Picture

Give new information

Reinforce or review it

Make sense of itMake sense of it

Examples of MIQMIQ transformationtransformation• Mind map the information• Hotseat• Still picture• Retell as a story / poem / song• Chart it / Venn diagram the info• Sequence the knowledge•Debate / interrogate info.

• Memory house• Make a mnemonic• Make a values continuum• Devise 20 questions about the info• Discuss applications for the info• Innovate: ask “ What if ?”

Time

Rete

nti

on

Revie

w

Revie

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No review

Revie

wR

evie

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“I listen with my ear, my heartand my undivided attention”

SMILESMILE

and REWARDREWARDPut a WelcomeWelcome

sign on your door

Classroom scriptsClassroom scripts• You can if you think you can• Which bit don’t you understand yet?• Up till now this has been a problem ... and ...• ““What have I learned today?What have I learned today?””• ““How do I knowHow do I know??””• “What do I need to know to get to the next level?”• By the end of the lesson you will be able to ... WhatWhat’’s the s the best best way for you to learn this?way for you to learn this?• “I have a responsibility for the way my partners learn”• Affirm the future in the present tense• You are excellent at spelling• You are a brilliant writer / mathematician / thinker

Give choices and choices and challengechallenge:

• You could do activity 3• You could do activity 5,• Your choice, you decide …

Constructive conjunctions Constructive conjunctions

and phrasesand phrases• Your work is OK and I want you to ...• Now we’re going to start

something entirely new ...• And finally ...

• That’s not like you ...

Let’s talk PROGRESSPROGRESS … try

• MSC and MSM• Target partners• E1T1• Self and peer assessment