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Why I think table top mats are better than wall displays
May 29, 2016 |
Category: Featured
A couple of days ago I posted an article exploring why I'm not keen on teaching being expected to spend time putting on displays in their classrooms. This made some people happy :) but a few people we...
Scaffolding: what we can learn from the metaphor
May 11, 2015 |
Category: literacy
Pretty much everyone agrees scaffolding students' work is a 'good thing'. Whenever they get stuck we leap in with our trusty writing frames and help them get going. A good writing frame can teach an u...
Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 3: Scaffold
Jul 02, 2013 |
Category: Featured
So, you've explained the new concepts and ideas students will need to know, deconstructed examples so that they know how to use these concepts in practice and you've modelled the process of how an exp...
Great teaching happens in cycles - the teaching sequence for developing independence
Jun 24, 2013 |
Category: Featured
Last year I wrote a post called The Anatomy of an Outstanding Lesson, which has become by far my most viewed post with almost 10,000 page views. Clearly teachers are hungry for this kind of thing. But...
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