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School Closures & Online Learning
Some ideas and advice based on my own personal experience of conducting online learning due to the recent school closures.
Ms Duckworth
Mar 6, 20208 min read
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Formative Assessment Strategies for Use in Everyday Practice
How to use a range of engaging and effective formative assessment strategies in any classroom.
Ms Duckworth
Nov 27, 201913 min read
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Using Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction in English
If you are interested in how to incorporate Rosenshine’s principles of instruction into your lessons, check out a few of my tried and...
Ms Duckworth
Nov 24, 201914 min read
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Using 'what, how, why' to develop and support pupil responses
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...
Ms Duckworth
Nov 17, 20194 min read
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Top Ten Tips for Teaching Planning
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...
Ms Duckworth
Nov 8, 20194 min read
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Using Tracking as a Tool in the Classroom
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...
Ms Duckworth
Nov 3, 20193 min read
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Cutting down time spent on marking by using codes
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...
Ms Duckworth
Oct 28, 20193 min read
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Teaching the Skills for Analysis and Annotation
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...
Ms Duckworth
Oct 16, 20194 min read
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To PEAL or not to PEAL?
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...
Ms Duckworth
Sep 1, 20195 min read
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Encouraging verbal engagement
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...
Ms Duckworth
Jul 18, 20196 min read
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