Planning and Teachign

1. PLANNING TO ACCELERATE
LEARNING

2. What is the most engaging
lesson you have taught?

3. ENSURING EVERYONE CONTRIBUTES
Method:
1. A piece of paper is divided into different sections and allocated to each group
member.
2. Each students fills in their section with as many ideas as possible.
3. The best 3-5 are put in the middle circle – Ready to share.
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2.
3.
Best ideas
here
Question:
What is the most
engaging lesson you
have taught?

4. PRESENTATION – 60 SECONDS
Method: After group work, getting students
to feedback the information in a meaningful
and engaging way.
• Each group has two spokespeople and
comment and questions cards.
• They will then go around the other
groups and try and get rid of their cards.
• Your group will have two spokespeople
who will go to other groups with tickets
(comments and questions).
Challenge: to differentiate for different abilities, teachers can decide how
many/which comment and question cards to give out.

5. 3 B4 ME
Method: Have 3 options for students before they ask
you a question.
1. Read the board
2. Ask a friend
3. Look at a resource on the resource table/ wall
displays.
This encourages students to be more independent.

6. COLD CALLING/NOMINATE
• 5 questions
• General knowledge questions
• E.g. give a tech question – nominate
Questions:
1. The river Jordan flows out into
_________.
2. What is the language feature where
the weather reflects the mood of a
story/character?
3. Which composer’s world premier ‘the
rite of spring’ caused a riot in Paris?
4. Who invented the light bulb?
5. What is the largest prime number less
than 20?
6. The last book of the New Testament
of the Bible, written about 100 years
after the birth of Christ, is sometimes
called The Apocalypse. What's the
name of this book?
Encourages
students to
contribute when
they can answer a
question on
something they are
good at.

7. BALLOON KEY WORDS/REVISION
Method:
Each group is given a separate topic/key
word/exam question.
People will have to link balloons by adding more
detail to the broad topic/key word.
Another person has to use that idea and write
something more in depth on another balloon until
a deeper understanding occurs.

8. Questions
and
Feedback