Any good teaching ideas.

H202too · 2025-09-20T10:28:01+00:00

I have to do a 5 minute presentation on a teaching amd leaning technique. So far we have had. All the kagan type stuff Hinge questions retrieval questions Spoltlighting on visualiser Cold calling Rephrasing questions to I wonder Fase and reciprocal reading Rosenshine I do etc Silent modelling Margin recipes Has anyone got any ideas I could trial and report back?

Gfsrhb · 20/09/2025 15:06

Dual coding.

redsquirrel07 · 20/09/2025 15:15

Oracy tasks like mock trials for debate topics, taboo for key words, hot seating, where do you stand for discussion based subjects etc.

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H202too · 20/09/2025 15:40

Thanks. Science so could get some discussion in. I think dual coding has been done actually.

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LightsDifficulty · 20/09/2025 17:04

As a parent I would be extremely grateful if you could do one on what to do when a child is not coping in school and is about to fall out of the system. How to talk to parents about the fact that their kid is not coping in mainstream and needs an EHCP and alternative schooling.

This happened to my son and even the SENDCo was not able to have that discussion with me. They had no knowledge of things like EOTAS.

If the teachers had known this, it would have saved my DC a huge amount of trouble.

LightsDifficulty · 20/09/2025 17:05

Sorry - I don't mean to be butting in as a parent btw. I became "staffroom" myself after the school could no longer provide for my son. The council funds us so I'm kind of a SEND teacher now.

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H202too · 20/09/2025 19:54

LightsDifficulty · 20/09/2025 17:04

As a parent I would be extremely grateful if you could do one on what to do when a child is not coping in school and is about to fall out of the system. How to talk to parents about the fact that their kid is not coping in mainstream and needs an EHCP and alternative schooling.

This happened to my son and even the SENDCo was not able to have that discussion with me. They had no knowledge of things like EOTAS.

If the teachers had known this, it would have saved my DC a huge amount of trouble.

Happened to my child too. She is 17 now. Attennded to my school too. Certainly opened my eyes.

My school is ok at pastoral care as far as they can be. We had online learning and other provision.
I see both sides of the coin.

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redsquirrel07 · 20/09/2025 21:40

LightsDifficulty · 20/09/2025 17:04

As a parent I would be extremely grateful if you could do one on what to do when a child is not coping in school and is about to fall out of the system. How to talk to parents about the fact that their kid is not coping in mainstream and needs an EHCP and alternative schooling.

This happened to my son and even the SENDCo was not able to have that discussion with me. They had no knowledge of things like EOTAS.

If the teachers had known this, it would have saved my DC a huge amount of trouble.

I think this sort of training could be valuable but it doesn't fall into the teaching and learning that OP is presenting on

Smeegall · 20/09/2025 22:38

Live marking. Plan for misconceptions and write coded mark scheme on a PowerPoint. During a task go round and write the coded targets or successes in students books. Students respond in red pen. There are videos of this on Facebook

Literacy in science - for example breaking down and deciding words to support with the amount of language needed (photosynthesis - photo (light) synthesis (make something....????)

SLANT/Routines - Door to do now.

There are steplap videos which are quite good for a few different strategies.

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H202too · 21/09/2025 09:50

Smeegall · 20/09/2025 22:38

Live marking. Plan for misconceptions and write coded mark scheme on a PowerPoint. During a task go round and write the coded targets or successes in students books. Students respond in red pen. There are videos of this on Facebook

Literacy in science - for example breaking down and deciding words to support with the amount of language needed (photosynthesis - photo (light) synthesis (make something....????)

SLANT/Routines - Door to do now.

There are steplap videos which are quite good for a few different strategies.

Thank you. Live marking is actually a big thing and lush in the school. We just had an hour on it. We have got rod of coloured pens too. Which am thankful for. Ours was purple.

We have the etymology of words in all our PowerPoints too.

It is actually hard as I think most have been done.

I am going to look at that step thing.

Thanks all for ideas.

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noblegiraffe · 21/09/2025 11:21

How you circulate the room. Do you always start at the same point and walk in the same direction meaning that you are always looking at the same kids' work? When you crouch down next to a child to help them do you make sure you position yourself so that you can still see the whole class instead of have your back to them? Do you immediately go to the next child to help or do you pause and scan the class and deal with any off-task behaviour? While you are helping a child do you keep an ear and eye out for what is going on elsewhere?
Do you regularly stand at the back of the class rather than the front when they are working to get a different view? Where do you place the kid who needs the most help? Common sense would say right in front of you, but I know when I am teaching that I face the room diagonally and the kid immediately in front of my desk is then blocked from my view by my monitor.

I know this seems basic but as someone who trains teachers this is something that needs to be made explicit.