TLC 2
12th December
Challenge 1
If lessons were like skateboarding…
reflect on your lessons
from last week:
- Which ‘zones’
were your students
generally in?
- Where does the
most learning
occur?
Factors that commonly limit learning;
● Excessive pace
● Overloading of activities
● Inflexible planning
● Limited time for independent work
● Concentrating too much, or too
early on a narrow range of test or
communication skills
Ofsted observation quotes;
“The person working the hardest in the lesson was
the teacher.”
“It contained seven or eight activities which were
conducted at speed.”
“The sheer number of tasks did not allow student
to consolidate their understanding, or even
complete the tasks.”
“Attempting to understand and apply three sets of
level criteria in 5 minutes is unrealistic.”
Science
All of the previous links (and
much more besides) are on
the T&L Hub
phslearninghub.weebly.com
Research is;
identifying a question
and experimenting to
find the answer
What is your
‘big’ question?
What are the long term benefits of your research
task? For:
● Student
● Teacher
● Department
● School
● Parents
How will you measure the impact of your
research task?
For example:
● Student survey
● BfL data
● Tracker data
● Teacher survey
● Parental survey
● Other
Review
Reflect
Report
Please remember that if there is a
significant innovation link and you
would like to use this for your
innovation CPD requirements
please see LP.
Learning log
You will need to keep an ongoing record of
your progress, actions and findings. This
should be either a blog or a shared google
doc. Please share the blog link or google
doc with your TLC leaders and TLT.
9th January optional CPD blogging
Your learning log should include:
● What have you done?
● When did you do it?
● Why did you do it?
● What did you learn from it?
● What are you doing next?
https://headguruteacher.com/2013/01/22/great-lessons-1-probing-questions/
https://headguruteacher.com/2013/01/31/great-lessons-3-challenge/
https://headguruteacher.com/2013/01/27/great-lessons-2-rigour/
https://headguruteacher.com/2013/02/03/great-lessons-4-differentiation/
http://www.slideshare.net/
Reflections on ‘typicality’
“In all the talk of improving teaching and learning,
sometimes – no often – there is too much talk about the
model OfSTED lesson. Too often this leads teachers
into thinking of idealised lessons than can only be
turned out in special circumstances or that outstanding
lessons require us to devise an elaborate box of tricks
to show off with. However, it is the 99% of lessons that
are never observed that really matter. So, we need to
focus on things that we do every day”
Tom Sherrington- headteacherguru

TLC 2 2016