Adaptive teaching = high quality teaching
But what does it look like in the classroom?
A thread 🧵 🪡 ✅ Accessible, purposeful starter activity which allows ALL learners an opportunity for success. Low stakes, recapping prior learning from last day, last week or last term. Opportunity for challenge.

Three weeks into the new timetable and these S3’s have nearly nailed the start of lesson routine and DO NOW task every period, meaning a purposeful start to the lesson. I know lots of staff already do this but here are my top tips for making this a classroom norm:🧵 🪡 Make it easy by using repetition to hone the routine - (nearly!) always on the board as the class enters, always the same place to do the work (back of sketchbook), always reinforce the routine as pupils enter.

THREAD 🧵 🪡 IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LANGUAGE. 10 phrases I use to nudge norms in the classroom. ‘Nearly everyone handed in homework this week, let’s try for 💯 next time.’

Even if I’ve been disappointed with the hand-in, I want students to know that:
Doing homework is the norm
Me checking up on it is the norm
High expectations are the norm

🧵 THREAD 🧵 EXAM RESULTS: Comparing the incomparable

Tomorrow school pupils across Scotland will receive their SQA exam results. This school year has been like none I have ever encountered. 1/14 The global pandemic has affected education in ways no-one could have ever imagined. I tend to think we might only be scratching the surface in terms of the impact which the last2 years have had on pupils,teachers&leaders. 2/14