Beer - Guinness - Gordon's ... a pattern?

Professional Tutor's opinion of the belief in young people, from the QISA website.

A lot of today's session comes from Teacher's Toolkit, by Paul Ginnis. One lesson this week, I will use the Lesson Planning Audit against one of my lessons.

We were also pointed again to Jackie Beere's book, the Perfect Oftsed Lesson.

Learning Objectives

• 2BA2 - to be able to
• bridging between previous lesson to today and beyond
• put 'previous lesson' section on 5 mins Lesson Plan
• think about 'purpose' column in terms of impact on learning
• could put double-sided sticky tape on the back of printed learning objectives so they can be stuck in... messy?

Lesson Planning

• higher level questions: Bloom
• think about time frame for teaching this area
• laminated mobile phones, write a text to their mum? ... might be problems with recording in book
• SA extension: smart arse!

Key Terms

• glossary stuck into back of book at the start - highlight as each word is covered?
• "key word" spotter: record in a class key words book

Plenary Idea

• "I am an expert at..." "To do this you need to..."
• "I need an expert for..."
• make sure there is a space for names!

Active Lessons

Negative Numbers

Giant number line in sports hall, get them to start at different places and then give sums, gives opportunity for some pupils to walk along the number line but some to have to work it out straight away - possibly in a different area?

Multiplication

Make giant multiplication grid, students in each 'box' of grid with a whiteboard, give sums so have to work as team to get final answer as each person has a job - differentiate by putting certain students in different spaces, then progress by moving around.

Delphi Method

Wikipedia

The Delphi method (pron.: /ˈdɛlfaɪ/ del-fy) is a structured communication technique, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts.^[1]

In the standard version, the experts answer questionnaires in two or more rounds. After each round, a facilitator provides an anonymous summary of the experts’ forecasts from the previous round as well as the reasons they provided for their judgments. Thus, experts are encouraged to revise their earlier answers in light of the replies of other members of their panel. It is believed that during this process the range of the answers will decrease and the group will converge towards the "correct" answer. Finally, the process is stopped after a pre-defined stop criterion (e.g. number of rounds, achievement of consensus, stability of results) and the mean or median scores of the final rounds determine the results.^[2]

As I am about to move onto area and perimeter, words with which many pupils seem to struggle, I thought it might be an idea to use this Delphi method as a way to elicit meaning from the pupils, highlighting misconceptions then attempting to narrow down to a definition that all pupils agree with and can understand.

Possible Implementation: in silence each student writes down their own definition, then discuss to find best definition in groups of 4 - read out to class inc. any that they discarded because they thought it wasn't correct.