How can students articulate their progression and develop a language for learning?

50 Pages·2012·1.4 MB·English

How can students articulate
their progression and
develop a language for
learning?
Objectives of session

• To explore Ofsted’s expectations about evidence of
progression in a lesson .

• To examine how Reciprocal Teaching and Dialogic
Teaching and Learning can support young people
articulate their learning and progression more effectively.

• To reflect on how the LIT Programme can improve young
people’s metacognition and ‘think-aloud’ skills.
Lesson observations: gathering evidence
about how well individual pupils and
particular groups are making
progression.
Gathering and recording evidence

‘Inspectors must spend as much time as possible in
classes, observing lessons, talking to pupils about
their work, gauging their understanding and their
encouragement in learning, and obtaining their
perceptions of the school.’

Ofsted - School Inspection Handbook (September 2012)
Literacy

‘Literacy includes the key skills of reading, writing and
oral communication that enable pupils to access
different areas of the curriculum. Inspectors should
give attention to pupils’ writing and communication
skills, as well as their reading skills.’

Ofsted - School Inspection Handbook (September 2012)
Outstanding grade descriptor - achievement of
pupils at school

‘Pupils develop and apply a wide range of skills to
great effect, reading, writing, communication and
mathematics.’

Ofsted - School Inspection Handbook (September 2012)
It is through spoken language that teachers
teach and children learn

• Are we as teachers providing the best type of talk?

• How can we utilise talk to increase learning?

• How can we create lessons where pupils do most of
the talking?
Activity

What kind of strategies have been employed
in your school to improve dialogue and
language for learning? Have any particular
strategies worked more than others?
The teacher who won’t let
go…..
Research has proven that teachers
talk up to 90% of the time in the
lesson. We need to develop more
speaking and listening opportunities
in the lesson.