Harnessing praise to increase motivation

Why did you decide to undertake this project? What was it designed to achieve? After a whole-school learning and teaching review, praise was identified as an area for development for the whole school and it seemed important to identify answers to the following questions: What does praise look, sound and feel like? How do students …

Productive Struggle

Why did you decide to undertake this project? What was it designed to achieve? “As educators, we want our students to feel successful. Sometimes, this means that we take control of the lesson and do what we can to make content easy for our students.” (Guido. J (2016)1. However, the question that this leads to …

Padlet

A digital canvas that allows you to create discussion boards in your lessons. Students are able to add to your board to give their opinion, demonstrate their learning or answer a given question. The Padlet E- Learning Express session took place on 11th October 2017 showing how to set up a discussion board as well …

QR Code

A QR code generator that allows you to create QR codes of text, videos or website links. Students can scan codes with the app or their iPhone camera Ways to use QR codes in your teaching Algorithms Marketplace exercise Hidden/unknown hints More kinaesthetic task Students having a choice of task to complete (Example image below) …

Popplet

A simple mind mapping app that is brightly coloured, easy to navigate and allows you to add images as well as text. Ways to use Popplet in your teaching Summary of a topic that is then linked to different areas of curriculum Key information for modules – verbs, by vocab, opinions, connectives An exam question …

Safari

Safari app allows students to be more independent in and outside of the classroom.

Learning Tools

An AFL tool that allows students to clearly show you where they are at in their learning. Includes traffic lights, target setting, true or false and an English checklist that allows students to check their own work for grammar, punctuation etc. Click here to download. Ways to use Learning tools in your teaching Draw a …

Goodnotes

A notetaking app that allows you to use it as a workbook, write on top of PDFs, add photographs and draw images (Example image below) Ways to use Goodnotes in your teaching: Design results tables to fill in in lessons – assessment/self assess Marking criteria and markschemes Good way to send differentiated work sheets without being …

Marking codes

Pupils have their writing/work returned with feedback indicated using a marking code. Pupils write What Went Well and Even Better If to respond to this. Saves time lost through teacher providing repeated feedback, and pupils engage more with feedback. Can be used for peer and self-assessment.

Feedback stickers

Create and print mark schemes and common targets on stickers to enable quick self and peer assessment. Saves the teacher time and it is a great way to train the children in becoming more accurate with marking their work.