How Will Teachers Keep Learning Active in Lessons?
Our focus on active rather than passive learning remains. As a reminder, this is what Active learning looks like:
Active: This is where a student receives regular, responsive feedback during a learning episode, so they can learn to take responsibility for how they learn whilst being guided by us. By checking for understanding regularly and ensuring our lessons are highly interactive, we are able to responsively plan our next steps. The feedback we gather needs to inform us of students’ confidence, fluency and accuracy of their progress.
Active students are leaders of their own learning. Active students are resources for each other.
Whilst we will have classrooms which are structured in a more traditional ‘chalk and talk’ fashion and we may not circulate, there are ways to still engage learners.
Below are examples of Active vs Passive strategies your teachers may try:
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Marking essays or questions outside of lessons |
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Copying chunks of text |
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Asking one student for a response to a question |
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Just using questions from a textbook/worksheet in the order given |
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Always give tight learning objectives |
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Additionally, both students and teachers have learnt to utilise technology efficiently to learn in the classroom during lockdowns. Students will continue to utilise these skills (such as google chat, online whiteboards and quizzes) as we continue to follow government guidelines regarding social distancing.