My High Five
Thank you @mathsmrgordon for the nudge I required to write this blog regarding new ideas I am now using at in my classroom. I have tried to order them into how effective I think they are, but this is not necessarily a fixed order as I am constantly changing my mind. What I can say are the following 5 ideas are new to me in the past year and I have experienced them in my classroom. I would also like to point out that these are new ideas and therefore any data is empirical, based solely on my thoughts and observations, with some feedback from my HofF and a trainee teacher that occasionally is with me in my lessons. I also need to say before starting that these are not my research ideas, I have magpied them from other sources (which I think is the point of the My High Five) and that my interpretation of these ideas might not be correct, but I have used them and like them in the way I am going to describe. 1. Rosenshine's principle of instructions. What did I learn? When working th...