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Folder full of my KS3 resources for units on Gothic Descriptive Writing and Gothic Fiction Reading. Aimed at Y7/8 - easily adaptable stuff for home learning! @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK dropbox.com/sh/mmeliuz4c07…

🧠 Effective teaching depends on understanding how learning happens. Daniel Willingham’s Simple Model of the Mind provides a practical lens for designing instruction grounded in key insights from cognitive science. It helps teachers move beyond poor proxies for learning and make more deliberate decisions about what students attend to, think about, and remember. The full What, Why, and How—plus a free planning resource—are available in this week’s ⚗️DistillED. newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/the-simple-m…

How can we support overloaded teachers to keep getting better? By Dr Simon Breakspear simonbreakspear.com/how-can-we-sup…

This, from @dylanwiliam's recent blog post, is the centre of my presentation next week — The Professional Mind — at #rEEdinburgh. Do come along and see me slide-less; they really aren't essential.

What does great teaching look like? The Model for Great Teaching is an excellent summary of the Great Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review (Coe et al, 2020). 1 Understanding the content. 2. Creating a supportive environment. 3. Maximising opportunity to learn. 4. Activating hard thinking. @EvidenceInEdu evidencebased.education

We’ve been getting granular about modelling in Teaching and Practice Labs recently. This simple exercise gave teachers the chance to think about checking for understanding as they model - what are the ‘do not pass go’ moments that need checking before handing over to students? 🤓

i love a timeline to consolidate knowledge but these ones y10 have made are so beautiful i want to frame them😭

High standards schools are going all in on techniques like Turn and Talk, SLANT, STAR, SHAPE and choral response, and I think we need to remember that "engagement is not a proxy for learning" doesn't just apply to posters, group work, wandering the room or whatever. Just because they are in SLANT or STAR doesn't mean they're listening Just because they snap to a pacy Turn and Talk doesn't mean the conversation starter was worth it Just because they've SHAPEd their answer into a nice full sentence doesn't mean they understand more than if they'd said it as one word Just because you get a belting response when you do a Call and Response doesn't mean all students are doing it, or understand what they are saying

I have turned all our Macbeth lessons into a booklet - I just like having them for off-site pupils, anyone out of lesson etc. Sharing in case you are a booklety sort of school! It is literally just our powerpoints copied and pasted into booklet form :) drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

Can’t recommend enough. Check out the wisdom of ⁦@DTWillingham⁩ on MindtheGap Memory and thinking Encoding vs learning Narratives and causality Emotions, attention and learning Critical Thinking Deep and shallow knowledge creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/mi…

A second booklet of modern fiction extracts for students to explore douglaswise.co.uk/blog/literary-… 📚

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘Scaffolding and PEAL paragraphs’ “What should teachers do? Do paragraph plans, PEAL, and similar scaffolds have a place? Should we get rid and do things differently?” alexquigley.co.uk/scaffolding-an…

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Great response to Rosenshine Principles of Instruction ⚗️DistillED series so far… 1. Daily Review 🗓️newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/daily-review 2. Small Steps 🪜newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/small-steps 3. Ask a Large Number of Questions 🗣️newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/ask-a-large-… 4. Provide Models 🔎newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/provide-mode…

Six short, modern fiction extracts for students to read, explore and enjoy douglaswise.co.uk/blog/literary-… The final task in each set is a creative writing challenge 📚

What really makes the difference in teaching? Recent research has highlighted six universal challenges at the heart of great teaching — and how effective PD helps teachers and leaders address them. 📩 Read our latest newsletter, for practical insights: linkedin.com/pulse/what-wev…

✅ CHECKING FOR UNDERSTANDING! This guide dives into the heartbeat of responsive teaching. CFU is crucial for making the invisible visible and capturing data needed to adapt teaching in real time. 🌱 Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

🗣️🗣️🗣️CHORAL RESPONSE! When every student answers every question, you multiply practice opportunities, surface misconceptions instantly, and build fluency. This FREE one-page guide shows how to implement it with clarity and consistency. newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/choral-respo…

Disciplinary literacy - The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how scientist operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and sometimes teachers!) reflect on this.

📡 COLD CALLING! This one-page guide breaks down the ‘what’, ‘why’, and ‘how’ of the cold calling strategy, ensuring ALL students stay actively engaged in the thinking process. Support my work by tapping REPOST and grab a FREE high-quality copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

LANGUAGE TOOLBOX - 40 quick activities 💡Identify techniques & their effects in context of the sentence 😬🥴☺️What impressions… based on key quotes in extracts/sentences ✔️Repeated practice ✔️starters/interventions @Team_English1 @Mathew_Lynch44 dropbox.com/scl/fi/hn6c420…