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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Nov 17, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Nov 8, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Nov 3, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Oct 28, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Oct 16, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Sep 1, 2019
- 5 min
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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Jul 18, 2019
- 6 min
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...
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Ms Duckworth
- Apr 21, 2019
- 2 min
Reflecting and Improving: how to encourage the re-drafting process
It's not always easy getting pupils to look at your marking rather than the grade, mark or percentage. It's even less easy to encourage...
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Ms Duckworth
- Apr 21, 2019
- 2 min
Effective, time reducing marking strategies
Marking is a necessary and unavoidable task in the life of any teacher, but more so for an English teacher. There is an awful lot of...
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