These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
As it's coming up to Christmas, we do tend to have 'fun day' on the last day of term, where we can play games and activities that engage pupils in a slightly different way... that being the case, this nice little activity of optical illusions will come in very handy!
This is a PP that I used to structure ideas about how new observational documents should be created to present to SLT. May provide ideas and a springboard for others.
This is a full lesson / Session PP that is designed to use to gather ideas and allocate ideas for planning the articles in the school magazine. I have uploaded other resources for setting up a school magazine and they can all be used in conjunction with each other.
When marking, I use this code. Every child has one in their book and I can write the number of the target that it relates to - As the lesson starter, after I've marked, the pupils write in their own targets to show that they&'ve acknowledged them. Simple, personalised, saves me hours on marking!
In brief, this resource is a full assessment system that can be used both in English and other subjects (literacy across the curriculum) in order to assess the writing grades of students and to help them to diagnose their own areas for development, as well as setting targets for improving writing skills. This is not available anywhere else other than on the TES
This system is all my own work and I have created the grade descriptors from scratch, using:
The GCSE descriptors or writing from AQA and Edexcel combined – therefore, they are as generic as they can be and are not board specific.
My own extensive experience of English teaching and exam marking.
Basically, I have broken down each grade from 1-9 and matched them to the skills that pupils should need in order to achieve the grade (as a best fit). This has been done by calculating how old GCSE grades (A*-G) correlate against 1-9 and benchmarking a low C at the Grade 4. Obviously, there will be variation of grades at the end of the GCSE year for year 11, as they are set on a national curve BUT these resources lay the foundations for assessment in KS3 and to ensure that teachers within a school or department can benchmark and describe what they expect each grade to look like and what students need to be able to do to hit a grade in writing. Therefore offering complete consistency and clarity for students and teachers within a school.
The resource includes:
Grade descriptors for writing for 1-9
9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for both AO4 and AO5
9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for punctuation only, so that teachers can break down the focus if they want to
A training PowerPoint for all staff that allows the lead to deliver a fully interactive session
All resources for that session
A training PowerPoint for the English dept. that allows the lead to deliver a full explanation of how to use the materials
All resources for that session
This resource is all ready for you to start working with as soon as you download it.
This is a full powerpoint with resources at the back of it, designed to help someone to lead a twilight session (approximately 1 1/2hrs to 2hrs) on why we need to differentiate and ideas of how it can be done.
The session is interactive with little exercises for the teachers to take art in s that they can consider the impact of the structures for differentiating in their own classrooms.
Training covers differentiation for different types of learners as well as ability.
If you're buying this, you will need to have some knowledge of differentiation to deliver it, so that you can deconstruct the activities after you have tried them with the trainees.
This APP Pupil speak Reading self evaluation sheet is used to mark pupils work - they fill it in and so does the teacher - designed to encourage participation in improving grades as an AFL tool.
This full lesson PP would be used with the self evaluation log that I uploaded some weeks ago to help pupils work out how to fill it in - so that you can model and show them step by step.
A very interesting pp that gets staff thinking about the boys / girls learning debate - great for using prior to introducing underachieving boys tactics
This is a PP that I used to present to OFQUAL and other manchester schools about using the functioanl skills qualifications in English - may have some good ideas for other school leaders. / Heads of English or deliverers of FS 1 and 2
