Category: I Do

Modelling by the teacher is a cornerstone of effective teaching; revealing the thought processes (thinking aloud) of an expert learner helps to develop pupils’ metacognitive skills.   Checklist Model your thinking process and choices.   ✔ Model your thinking process in relation to self (your own skills, strengths and challenges).   ✔ Model your thinking in relation to…

Before pupils attempt a task, it’s crucial that the teacher models how to be successful in the given task. Using a visualiser model live is an excellent strategy and supports teacher workload.   Checklist Walk through the process to show children an example (or several examples depending on context/familiarity).  🗸 Think aloud.  🗸 Teach in small…

Why? When delivering new content, it’s important to teach in small steps to reduce cognitive load.   Checklist Don’t ask questions: teach the new content.   ✔ Reveal new information slowly.  ✔ Avoid using speech and text simultaneously: children cannot listen and read simultaneously.   ✔ Strip back presentation: remove extraneous visuals and text.   ✔ Use signalling to…

“What we attend to is ultimately what we learn” – Peps Mccrea. Ensure that, during the I DO phase, pupils show the learning behaviours that mean they will successful.   Checklist Ensure that pens/pencils are down are children are not multi-tasking  🗸 Children are looking at you (and any visuals you are using)   🗸 Children are actively…

Establish the purpose of the learning, share the intended outcomes and link learning to previous learning.  Checklist The learning intention relates to the learning not the doing  🗸 Learning outcome is clear and concise 🗸 An example is given 🗸 A link to why this learning may be useful in the real world 🗸 Examples…