Setting Goals
Every lesson in the classroom needs to begin with clear learning intentions or goals. These goals clarify what success looks like.
Explicit Teaching
In an explicit lesson, both the teacher and students have a clear pathway of the steps that are involved in achieving success.
Collaborative Learning
Collaborative Learning – how do I do this in my classroom? We all want our students to experience.....
Questioning
Why do teachers ask questions? How do we optimise questioning in the classroom? What can we do to support questioning in our English.....
Metacognitive Strategies
We are helping our students build resilience and persevere when things are not going their way. Over time, our students will develop persistence...
Structuring Lessons in the EAL Classroom
A lesson structure includes the planned sequence of teaching and learning activities that.....
Worked Examples
On a surface level, worked examples is a term that is used to define the samples of the tasks we are asking our students to complete.
Multiple Exposures
When teachers rigorously plan and provide multiple exposures, they give their students the confidence to consolidate and continuously engage...
Feedback
Specific, accurate, timely, and clear instructions and recommendations that focus on the improvement of tasks that students have worked on.
Differentiated Teaching
Differentiated teaching takes place when we adjust one or all of our lesson content, our process, our product ...