For new teachers looking for ideas on how to promote collaborative learning in their classroom. 3 tops tips to spark some ideas and getting students thinking. Tip 1 - Ideas to promote Collaborative Learning: Jigsaw Tip 2 - Group Generator and Creating Roles for Collaborative Learning Tip 3 -Questions to Focus, stretch and challenge during group work

A KS3 lesson to get students thinking about the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This follows on nicely from a whole class staged combat scene to introduce the students to the play. The start activity may need adapting to a whoosh. Tasks encourage an abstract and stylised way of moving as the witches etc.

I planned this for a UNHCR (UN Refugee agency) session I was leading as our school supports a local refugee school with annual teacher training opportunities. It explores some basic principals for questioning and moving thinking on. It will be helpful for teachers just starting out or anyone wanting to refresh their own practice in this area. It includes: Learning Triads to allow the pupils to focus on their topic of learning and reflect through discussion. What questions should I ask and when should I ask them? Open and closed questioning How should I respond to questions and answers? Quick tips Resources included

These workshops cover 5-6 hours of exploration surrounding themes and images from the story of Icarus. Suitable for ks4/5 drama students. The workshops will follow a devising process using a physical approach with Frantic Assembly techniques. It will give students an opportunity to devise work using building blocks, thus providing them with more than just a basic starting point for their 15 minute piece. The lessons are guided with learning outcomes and links to useful material. Guidelines and criteria prompts included for the devising process as per spec requirements.

Holes by Louis Sachar: Kissing Kate the birth of an outlaw, suitable for KS3 (8&9) To interpret information from the text and form ideas about characters, speech and setting. Tasks : Newspaper writing (writing to inform) Looking at features of newspaper writing. Staging a court room scene for debate (speaking and listening) - differentiated roles ready to assign. Kissing Kate Innocent or guilty Class debate through controlled court scene - resource included for roles and responsibilities Links to youtube clips included in pp. Key questions, starters and plenaries included.