What Is Good Teaching?

Staff Meeting 29th February 2012

Why are you here?

What was your motivation?

Why do you continue to do what you do?

What is your personal goal?

What do you think makes a ‘good teacher, good’?

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Think about this….“The UK is ranked as the worst of the twenty-one

wealthy nations surveyed using a range of measures, including the degree to which pupils’

are happy at school. Children get just one childhood: it should be a magical and happy

time and their primary education should leave a host of positive and deep meaningful memories

that last for the rest of their lives.”

Lets NOT Forget…

“We are educating children to do jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that don’t yet exist

to solve problems that don’t yet exist.”

Life since 1995Channel Tunnel Internet Starbucks Opened MP3 Devolved Assembly in Wales Google Ebay Ipod iTunes Facebook Dvd Recorder Wii

“THUNK Of The Day”

Discuss…….

Remember…no such thing as a wrong or ‘silly’ answer!

“If I chop a tree down and start writing on it, does it become a

table? What if I don’t chop it down but climb up it and start writing on

it?”

“In order to equip our children well for the future, they need to

encounter inspirational teachers!”

Ian Gilbert, “Inspirational Teachers, Inspirational Learners”, (2011)

Our BEST teachers will….Inspire children to develop life-changing attitudes;

Help them to understand the importance of global awareness, human rights, empathy and ethics;

Encourage children to embrace business and enterprise skills (including risk taking, working collaboratively and by influencing and negotiating with others);

Heighten children's’ sensitivity and creativity through a love of literacy and the arts.

“Just in case learning V’s Just in time learning”

Where is your

teaching?

Consider this…..“School’s need to make learning ‘deep’ by giving

children real issues to explore and not presenting tired topics that have been covered time and time again! They recognise the value of…….allowing the children to be enterprising.”

The Rotherham ‘Make £5 Blossom’ Project

The impact of INSPIRING young people

“I was supposed to be a welfare statistic…..it is because of a teacher that I sit at this table. I remember her telling us one cold, miserable day that she could not make our clothing better; that she could not provide us with food; she could not change the terrible segregated conditions under which we lived. She could introduce us to the world of reading, the world of books and that is what she did.

“What a world! I visited Asia and Africa. I saw magnificent sunsets. I tasted exotic foods. I fell in love and danced in wonderful halls. I ran away with escaped slaves and stood beside a teenage martyr. I visited lakes and streams and composed lines of verse.

I knew then that I wanted to help children do the same things. I wanted to weave magic!

As teachers we need to create wonderful, rich and vivid life-changing experiences!

So, what does good teaching and learning look like?

What about our Curriculum?

We need to create a curriculum that is based around powerful, memorable and well-structured learning opportunities that ‘hook’ children into learning for the rest of their lives.

“Those restaurants with the biggest menus don’t tend to offer the best food because there is too

much for the chefs to think about!”

We need to…..Maintain a strong focus on literacy and numeracy with a far greater emphasis on speaking and listening and the application of numeracy and literacy;Develop the use of ICT to support all areas of learning;Greater attention to ‘Personal & Social’ development;

AND ensure a Curriculum for all

All over this country behind closed doors of housing estates or down country lanes there are other budding dancers and actors but they may never set foot on a stage. There are budding

musicians and writers and orators and artists but the door of opportunity may never open for

them, because they will not receive the same support as our more academic learners.

Our CurriculumHow do we place pupils’ at the ‘heart’ of our curriculum?How does our curriculum develop life-long skills for the 21st Century?How does our curriculum hook, excite, motivate and enthuse our pupils’?How does our curriculum provide context, purpose and relevance to the lives of our pupils?

Sadly…..“The pressure to keep accelerating pupil

progress can prevent schools from looking at more creative and dynamic ways of teaching.

These schools often feel constrained and complain of a world of compliance and fear –

especially the fear of penalties. They are often located in areas of social deprivation which

brings further tensions.”

Lets not forget…..The world is facing huge challenges and they are growing

daily in severity, scale and complexity. It is no exaggeration to say they are not going to go away. Indeed

they will get worse unless we start to find solutions and find them soon. If we are going to survive we need the next generation to be smarter and better prepared than

any generation before. The only way is to teach our young and make the most of their talents in a way that will help

them meet the challenges of the modern world.The question is…..does our current education system

work?

Summary Of the Key Points…How do you make their time magical and happy?How are you providing them with the skills to be successful in the 21st Century?In what ways are you inspirational?Are you a, ‘Just In Case OR Just In Time’ teacher?How do you make learning ‘deep’?How do you ‘hook’ your learners?Do you look for creative and dynamic ways of teaching?

What next...Consider our ‘Learning Environments’Consider our provision – Curriculum (Skills), Timetables, PedagogyHow is the FPh Approach being developed into KS2?Enriched CurriculumHomework

Your Homework…..How can we develop the KWL Resources?If we look towards ‘Areas Of Learning’, which areas would you like to be involved in?What do you think about weekly planning v’s daily planning?What’s your thoughts about homework?What do you think about the introduction of satellite weeks?If you could change your learning environment to support effective teaching & learning, what would you do?