THREAD: Oracy and CPD
I’ve noticed a few tweets about promoting oracy in lessons so I thought I’d share some of our work @turnerschoolsuk.
When pupils returned to classrooms, their confidence in articulating their ideas had suffered so we looked to do something about it. In ‘Symbiosis’, Kat and I were keen to outline the link between oracy and the enacted curriculum; to articulate, understand and contemplate the subject, we must be able to speak it. Promoting high quality talk is at the heart of explicit teaching.

THREAD: Remote Teaching
I’ve spoken to a few people recently about our remote teaching approach and thought I’d share some of our ideas here for anyone who many find them useful.
1. We use Google Classroom and post lessons which include videos, Google Forms and any other docs 2. Classrooms are set up so that lessons are saved as ‘Topics’ each week. The Topic is named as Term/Week/Date for easy navigation. This is consistent so that Classrooms all look similar to pupils to provide a sense of routine - just like you would in a lesson

CPD THREAD: I’ve been talking to a couple of people about how we moved our CPD online and thought I’d share in case it was useful.
Our aims:
- Flexible, personalised, high quality CPD
- Support new staff induction
- Complement face-to-face training
First, we built a CPD Portal The portal was built through Google sites & was really easy to set up. It’s split into sections including pedagogy, using Google & Excel, subject knowledge, external courses, lesson videos, training requests. The images only show a few subjects, there is a page for every subject