Clarity of Purpose

  • Progressive lesson objectives
  • Start points identified
  • Learning goals understood by students
  • High expectations
  • Knowledge-engaged
  • Key knowledge identified
  • Key vocab identified
  • Daily review
  • Sequenced learning evident
  • Literacy prioritised

Adaptive Teaching

  • Targeted support
  • Chunking new content
  • TA work directed
  • DS/SEND needs met
  • Individualised feedback
  • Live marking is effective
  • Effective discussions
  • Monitor independent work
  • Adapt approach
  • Modelling
  • Thinking aloud
  • Reteach
  • Scaffolds used appropriately

Challenge and Rigour

  • Probing questioning
  • Inclusive questioning
  • No opt out
  • Scaffold up not dumb down
  • Thinking time
  • Higher order questions
  • Planned questioning
  • Metacognition and self -regulation strategies
  • Challenge for all
  • Risk taking
  • Learn from mistakes
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem solving

Pace

  • Full use of lesson time
  • Rapid progress
  • Variety of activities
  • Learning moved on when needed
  • Revise not repeat
  • Do now activities
  • Appropriate level of teacher talk

Engagement

  • Active learning
  • Active thinking
  • Structured group work
  • Student discussion
  • On task
  • All students required to think
  • Resilience
  • Students all participate
  • Students question
  • Strong relationships
  • Behaviour for learning
  • Appropriate praise

AFL

  • Student response to verbal feedback
  • Retrieval practice
  • Exemplar material
  • Interleaving
  • Misconceptions dealt with
  • Effective MAD time and metacognitive reflection
  • Strategies to test understanding of all
  • Hinge questions
  • Knowledge Builders
  • Effective homework
  • Identify gaps