Clarity of Purpose

  • Progressive lesson objectives
  • Start points identified
  • Learning goals understood by students
  • High expectations
  • Knowledge-engaged
  • Key knowledge identified
  • Key vocab identified

Adaptive Teaching

  • Targeted support
  • Tailored questioning
  • Peer support
  • DS/SEND needs met
  • Individualised written and oral feedback
  • Discussions
  • Monitor independent work
  • Adapt approach
  • Modelling
  • Reteach

Challenge and Rigour

  • Probing questioning for all
  • Synoptic questions
  • Scaffold up not dumb down
  • Thinking time
  • HOTS
  • Metacognition and self -regulation
  • Challenge for all
  • Risk taking
  • Learn from mistakes
  • Critical thinking

Pace

  • Full use of time
  • Rapid progress
  • Variety of activities
  • Learning moved on when needed
  • Revise not repeat

Engagement

  • Active learning
  • Structured group work
  • On task
  • Students think deeply
  • Resilience
  • Students all participate
  • Students question
  • Strong relationships
  • Behaviour for learning
  • Appropriate praise

AFL

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