Session 4 Active and engaging lessons

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Session 4Active and engaging lessons

• Linda Needham
• Linda.needham_at_kirklees.gov.uk

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Thanks to Lee Sheldon who let me use some of his
pictures
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entry activity
E.g.
is desert!
What are these habitats?
Design your own phonogram for a habitat and test
it on a friend
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outcomes

• Explain the importance of giving a varied diet of
  activities to learners so as to encourage
  engagement
• Practise a range of engaging activities and
  identify ways that they could be incorporated
  into lessons
• Identify your own good practice

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Diamond ranking
most important
least important
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Examples
coal
What questions were asked?
oil
gas
HEP
nuclear
wind
What makes a good predator?
Sharp teeth
solar
waste
Good hearing
Good eyesight
geothermal
Eyes at front of head
Run fast
Sharp claws
Which is the most important energy resource in
the UK?
Camouflage
Strong muscle
Warm fur
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HEALTH WARNING!

• I am NOT saying that you shouldnt do these
  activities!
• Just remember
• Theres always another way of doing something
  (make sure that the activity develops a range of
  behaviour for learning skills)
• Plan for groupings and partnerships that work
  where everyone has a role
• Tell learners what you want from them (success
  criteria) and tell them how you will assess
  learning
• Model the activity for all learners. It helps
  them see the thought processes

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Getting back on track-DCSF research into pupils
who make slow progress in core subjects
www.teachernet.gov.uk/publications Search using
ref 00654-2007BKT-EN
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copying
I have 2 science teachers. One talks all the
time and gets us to copy things out of a
book-this doesnt help me learn. The other lets
us discuss things and demonstrates experiments-
this really helps me to understand Y8 pupil

• These are some of the things that they hated
  copying
• Objectives/outcomes off the board
• Notes from the board
• Diagrams from the board, worksheets and out of
  books
• Cloze procedures

We have to ask ourselves the question What is
the learning that is going on when people are
copying information from one source to another?
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The power of Txt -)
Write a text to your friend who missed the lesson
today, explaining what you learned
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copying diagrams
This is a common activity seen in a number of
science lessons but are there other ways of doing
it?
Why not use a collective memory technique? Put
the picture at the front and they go up in turns
and draw it at their desk.
Why not give them a really badly drawn diagram
and then get them to correct it, add things and
finish it off?
Why not get them into pairs (back 2 back) with
one person having a whiteboard and the other
having the picture? One describes and one draws?
Why not show them a diagram on an OHT or PPT for
2 minutes then get them to draw it from memory
onto a whiteboard. Prize for best?
Why not give them a photograph (with labels) and
then get them to turn it into a diagram?
Why not give them the labels and get them to draw
what they think it looks like?
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What can you see in the picture?
Which companies could use this image as an
advert? Why?
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Games for learning
pictionary
taboo
card games
Quiz shows
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Stand Up - Sit Down Game
Name a way of separating mixtures?

• One person is an expert in the comfy chair.
• Everyone else writes down one answer and then
  stands up.
• The expert then shouts out answerstheir job is
  to sit everyone down in the quickest time.

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Plenary
One thing that I didnt like/do well
One thing that I loved doing
One target to improve
One thing good I have learned
One thing I will remember
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