Tackling targets

Use various ways to create opportunities for students to reflect on their learning and targets over time. Some of these simple visuals, charts and walls can helps how students which aspects of their learning are strengths and which are areas for further focus. Target Setting Wall GCSE skills Visual targets

Uplifting sentences

A great technique to get children to work on improving the quality of their responses by improving a sentence either together or on their own. See below for two versions, one with a points system attached to focus on subject specific terminology. Uplifting sentences

The bumps

Read or study a piece of text. During this process get the pupils actively involved: Ask the class to stand, every time a key term, tense or equivalent is mentioned, the pupils have to sit down. Last to sit down is out…see who the winner will be!  

Instagram thinking

Get the pupils to draw an image as if they were posting on instagram to sum up what they have learnt. Get them to add a suitable comment underneath to explain their image. Instagram

Tweet a tip

Get the pupils to compose a tweet in less than 20 words to sum up what they have learnt. Include a # to sum up a catchy phrase! Twitter

Topic Tennis

Select a topic and say go. Pupils are in pairs and have to say a related term to that topic and continue until their partner cannot go. You can use the scoring of tennis e.g. 15, deuce or just score one point each time. Topic tennis

Heads together

Give pupils a number 1-4/5. Pose a question and say “heads together” where pupils discuss answer. Select a number 1-5 and that child from each group stands and answers the question on their whiteboards. Heads together!

3,4,5

Pupils need to tell 3 people, 4 things they have learnt that lesson within 5 minutes! Add a sense of competitive challenge by a prize for the first to finish or get peers to rate the quality of one another’s responses. 3-4-5 plenary

Kahoot

A fun game based app and website that allows you to create fun quizzes to assess students’ learning.  

Apple Clips

The latest app created by Apple that can be used to create and edit simple videos. The Apple Clips E- Learning Express session took place 17th October 2017 showing how to use the app as well as ways it can be used inside and outside of the classroom Download Powerpoint Ways to use Apple Clips in …