Most resources I develop are geared towards GCSE 2016-18 (AQA and Edexcel) curriculum and are practical solutions to classroom teaching. I keep most of these black and white for simple/cost-effective print.
I read each novel/play/poem and break down into manageable parts.
I find this most effective within classrooms where students require chunks of information they can order, in sequence. The 'study-packs' I create can apply to any book/play/poem and provide visual tools for memory recall.
Most resources I develop are geared towards GCSE 2016-18 (AQA and Edexcel) curriculum and are practical solutions to classroom teaching. I keep most of these black and white for simple/cost-effective print.
I read each novel/play/poem and break down into manageable parts.
I find this most effective within classrooms where students require chunks of information they can order, in sequence. The 'study-packs' I create can apply to any book/play/poem and provide visual tools for memory recall.
WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS RELATING TO THE REALITY PICTURE YOU WILL INHERIT?
Include comments on the political system; thoughts on war; the media; cultural boundaries; your right as an individual to stand and voice your individual thoughts and feelings.
Is the war about people and beliefs or money and resources, or both?
A purpose-designed sheet for a teacher's Data File. Used to provide an efficient 'at a glance' view of:
Student Name
Class
Any issues with Attendance / Behaviour or Motivation
Identify Autism / Dyslexia / SEN
Includes progress through Grades and can be amended quite simply to suit teacher needs.
A completed example of an effective tool for planning/monitoring/tracking the individual lessons between year groups. Particularly effective teacher who may be working between classes. Useful for looking at potential gaps within the weekly/monthly timetable where a wider variety of subject-matter can be injected.
Template for planning and tracking lessons throughout each school week/term.
Helpful as an online tool for identifying at a glance where each class is at.
Additionally useful to decide the flow of each week in terms of what subject matter can be incorporated and where.
Used in class with all year groups. Effective because the student can file the sheets in a specific order and review their progress. The sheet provides an alternative to often messy alterations within exercise books and helps the teacher maintain a working file to allow Ofsted the opportunity to see valid attempts made by student and teacher to develop SPaG. Can also be used as a lesson starter/end or a homework sheet.
Discussion and Debate sheet prompting student critical-thinking and wider subject interest. Used with Year 9's and 10's in 2016, prompting a discussion that spanned three lessons, with students choosing the 'hot seat' to constructively debate their point of view.
Resource shows one example I have filled in and one blank after this - 2 pages. Any school logo can be attached.
This was first introduced at a West-London High School where students I was teaching had low-esteem and needed tasks based on who they were as individuals, i.e. to get then develop their interest in the subject before they could tackle curriculum-based work. I developed it as a means of allowing face-to-face communication to discuss 'their' interests and I based the assignment(s) on this. When a 1000-2000 word assignment is returned to you, with Harvard-referencing notes and a proud, smiling face, by a student who, previously, didn't attend school, it kind of has one questioning whether 'personalised' subject matter can 'still' hit the assessment criteria and create a more harmonious environment.
LIMITED /MANDLESHTAM
BASIC AWARENESS
IDEAS FORMING/SIMPLE
VALID ATTEMPT
APPROPRIATE/SOME CLARITY
ACCURATE/ ORGANISED
RELEVANT/ CONSISTENT
CLEAR/ EFFECTIVE
CONSISTENT, DETAILED, DEVELOPED
CONFIDENT/LACKS ORIGINALITY
PERCEPTIVE/JUDICIOUS
SOPHISTICATED
This resource was used from a discussion with Year 10's who watched the PP 'Insight - A Writer'. This led to them describing how they felt they were not engaged enough in 'free-writing'. Each student then used a single page resource the same as this to express their thoughts, with some fantastic conversational results and some very interesting and quite often abstract subject material.
A resource controlled by students to decide their own exam questions based on their interpretations of any text.
This was used with Year 10's recently (June 2016) with some very in-depth analysis of the varied literature they are studying. It led to them understanding the text at a deeper level, simply by 'them' considering the questions that may be asked of them in a final exam.
