Today, as we celebrate World Book Day, a day to promote reading, publishing and copyright, let’s think about what can be done at school all year long to promote reading...
You may have heard of these as a plenary activity and while I use them a lot, I do often wonder if I actually make it an exercise with true meaning. Yes, the students write a summary or ask/answer a question to demonstrate their learning, but what happens after?
The other day, I wrote a few top tips on behaviour management and whilst they have all been successful for me and I continue to use them, I got to thinking, before any of those can actually work, you need to do (consistently) one basic thing…
I strongly believe that games have a huge place in the classroom and are ultimately a means of engagement, behaviour management and reward. Not a lesson goes by where I don’t include a game and here are my top 5…
Do students get fed up with the school’s reward policy, or do your rewards sometimes lose their value because they have been the same for a while? You should aim to vary the rewards you give in order to make them desirable. Obviously, they must be suited to age range, but I have found this Top 5 to be my most popular in the classroom...
During my training, I used to be up every single night until gone midnight, planning lessons for the following day and it just wasn’t feasible to keep it up. So, I needed a new way of planning and, whilst I understand that this cannot and will not work for everyone, it might be a saviour for some.
When a teacher's class is impossible or nearly impossible to deal with on a daily basis, why not try one (or all) of these 8 strategies in the classroom?
