Ms Duckworth's Classroom

Some ideas and advice based on my own personal experience of conducting online learning due to the recent school closures.

How to use a range of engaging and effective formative assessment strategies in any classroom.

If you are interested in how to incorporate Rosenshine’s principles of instruction into your lessons, check out a few of my tried and tested examples below. ...

After a successful few weeks with using 'what, how, why' (and a lot of tweaking of resources), I thought I'd share some of my most successful activities and ...

How many of your pupils plan? Do they plan assignments or essays? Do they plan for coursework? Do they plan in exam conditions? I always want to answer yes t...

I have worked in various roles throughout my career and in all of them I have used tracking as a way of monitoring pupil progress. I have always loved spread...

After marking 25 Y9 essays on ‘How the narrator is presented in The Tell Tale Heart’, and writing near enough the same comment on at least 50% of said essays...

Teaching pupils how to annotate texts effectively is a skill that is required from years 7 right through to 13 and if it’s embedded early, it can be built up...

I will start this post with a disclaimer: there is no concrete answer on whether to use PEAL or not. It can be a contentious issue between teachers; a repeat...

Pupils should be talking in our classrooms. They may not want to and there are times when silent work is needed, but there is definitely a place for discussi...