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Tag: progress
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 4
This blog is Part 4 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Effective Feedback We turn now to feedback. If marking is the process, feedback is the content.…
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Effective Marking Part 2 was, necessarily, reflective in nature. Norms and values, while important, involve us…
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 2
This blog is Part 2 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Establishing Norms We move now to think about the norms of your classroom. Norms are unwritten…
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Across the four blogs, I’m going to look at a range of things you can do,…
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Relieve the pressure on your lesson planning with eight ready-made, good-to-go application and analysis activities you can use to bring Bloom’s Taxonomy into your teaching today
Looking at Application and Analysis Activities Here’s Bloom’s Taxonomy: We’re going to look at levels three and four. Application and analysis. I’ll share eight activities you can use in your…
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Take a break from the short-term and focus on the long-run instead with two self-assessment techniques that get learners thinking about the bigger picture
Visualise Progress with a Learning Journal Learning journals visualise progress over time. They are a place where learners can capture their self-assessments. As the journal gets filled up, learners can…
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Half a dozen simple ways to capture progress when using discussion to develop learners’ oracy skills
It is a commonly held criticism of discussion that, as a teaching device, it lacks the all-important ability to capture progress. Someone coming into a classroom in which discussion has…