Teachers! Help me!

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Wow.
Applied for a job yesterday, got an interview call today, interview is Monday!
Its for a cover supervisor job in a primary school. Back story, was a TA for years, then cover supervisor in a high school, then a behaviour worker in a primary. About to be made redundant so v glad of interview.
So they email me the letter and I have to teach a lesson that I have prepared to a mixed ability class of year 5s. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its a cover position so I assumed they would give me work (as when I did the high school interview) but I have to prepare it!
Ill have a TA and a smartboard if I like but Im inclined to not use the board as its prob different to what Ive used before and I dont want technological stuff to scupper my chances.

But I have gone completely blank in thinking what on earth I could teach?!!
Has anyone got any nice, short foolproof lesson ideas I could "magpie" (as we call nicking work from other children at school!!!) I feel sick and like saying I cant make it!!!!!!

Join TES online then you can look up lessons . See if you can find out if the school has any whole school development targets such as writing or a speaking and listening activity... or phsce is always a fair bet! Keep it simple yet well paced, differentiate by outcome.
Keep positive!!

Do NOT differentiate by outcome - dreadful. They will grill you alive for that. Differentiate according to level/ability. Request class list, group into 4 groups. GTA, top, middle, bottom. Have layered success criteria - each of your 4 groups needs its own 'I can...' success criteria.

Choose something you are confident with in terms of subject knowledge. Half way through your lesson stop the entire class, get each of your 4 groups to reiterate what their success criteria is for their group.

Reward, reward, reward throughout. Go armed with stickers. Ensure the independent task challenges them enough but allows the group you are not working with to work things out for themselves. Your TA needs to have one group - give him/her the GTA. Choose the top 3 children for that subject. You take any of the other groups. The other 2 groups work unaided but with your input every no and again IF REQUIRED.

I could send you a lot of 'outstanding' graded lesson plans - but every single class is different. I make my own ideas up for each and every lesson. An outstanding lesson only comes from knowing those children well and knowing what they can and can not do.

If you can use some IT. I know the IWB may fail on the day - but use something to show confidence, even if it is only a powerpoint for warm-up, introduction activities.

The emphasis now is on what the children LEARN. Even if your lesson is all singing, all dancing, they won't necessarily think it is good. They want the MAJORITY of children from each of your 4 groups to be able to show by the plenary that they have progressed. Ensure you use afl for this throughout and that you plenary NAILS this. E.G. Literally say to the children at the end, "Tell me what you have learnt. HOW do you know you have met the success criteria?"

Good luck!

How has your planning gone? Glad RITA1003 could help you more. Sorry I couldn't give as much detail...I was busy planning my own work!
( new to mums net and I'm starting to feel like 'ideas' get rather judged a lot! )
All the best for tomorrow.
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