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Jan 24, 2024 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
6th Form Independent Learners.
A sequence of lessons to develop: 1. Organising IL 2. Strategic reading 3. Strategic note taking 4. Effective graphic organiser use
Ft. Lots of @Inner_Drive goodness 1/6
Lesson 1: Organising your IS
Focus on environment, goal setting, and creating a TT.
Focus on the importance of mapping out and threading in breaks, and how memory works 2/6
A 3 year whole school strategy to create a culture of ‘We are ALL teachers of literacy’ - promoting love of reading and empowering teachers to effectively thread disciplinary literacy into their curric and practice 1/10
Our 5 approaches are part of whole school programmes and subject curriculum&pedagogy. Our yr1 focus: reading.
All pupils access the universal offer.
Post-reading tests and diagnostic testing, so pupils access either targeted and specialist interventions 2/10
Mar 25, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Literacy 📜
A thread 🧵
Why literacy? 1/9 Research for strategy based on @EducEndowFoundn@TheWritingRevol@AlexJQuigley@marcrowland73
‘The Golden 5’
What might that look like across a curriculum.
We are ALL teachers of literacy and therefore what common strategies could be translated by subjects into their own discipline, to support the development of literacy.
My Golden Five, rooted in @EducEndowFoundn 2/9
May 20, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
New Sixties SoL exploring if Sandbrook’s view is accurate that Britain was the same as it was 20yrs ago. 1. ‘Never Had It So Good?’ - exploring why Labour won in 1964. Is a 4 seat majority a indicator of change? What about what happened in 66 then in 70? Pendulum effect? 1/6 2. Two lessons looking at attitudes and laws related to immigration and attitudes towards race. Linking to 1964 election 2/6
Jan 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Really enjoying teaching our new dictators module. Using Dikotters ‘How to be a Dictator’ as the enquiry for exploring: Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Franco and Mao ✨ being able to compare and contrast is fascinating