Accomplishment

Committed to making inspiring, high-quality science education available to all young people. Science should be exciting for young people, giving them skills and opportunities to improve their futures. But not all young people are inspired by science. Some don’t find it relevant to their lives, or know what careers are available. We want to make sure that all young people in the UK have access to a world-class science education.

Find out more @ https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/improving-science-education

Developing new activities to support exploratory talk around stories in early years between children and parents/teachers. Developing challenging information gap activities for well motivated late arrivals, literate in first language, in secondary schools. Collaborative Learning is practitioner led, has evolved over the last thirty five years and is still evolving. We support a teacher network that shares resources that scaffold talk. Our activities can be used as they are, or tweaked a little to suit different classrooms or they can be an inspiration/a template for you to develop your own resources that we hope you will in turn share with us.

Find out more @ http://www.collaborativelearning.org/

Assessment for Learning is the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there.

Find out more @ https://www.assessmentforlearning.edu.au/professional_learning/intro_to_afl/introduction_key_questions.html

Inspired by teaching approaches developed in Singapore and Shanghai, mastery is an inclusive way of teaching that is grounded in the belief that all pupils can achieve in maths. A concept is deemed mastered when learners can represent it in multiple ways, can communicate solutions using mathematical language and can independently apply the concept to new problems.

Teaching for mastery supports National Curriculum objectives, but spends more time reinforcing number before progressing to more difficult areas of mathematics.

Find out more @ https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/teaching-mastery-what-mastery

Recognise the achievements of the staff.

Reward systems are one of the most effective ways of establishing a positive classroom environment. They promote good behaviour and incentivise students. You can create a points reward system, give out stickers or create reward jars etc.

One of the most effective teaching strategies for ensuring high levels of fluency and accuracy is Precision Teaching. Precision Teaching involves short one minute tasks to build skills by practising them regularly. It lets you monitor and track the progress the child makes very carefully and make changes to ensure the child is learning as fast as they can. It is not in fact ‘teaching’ in the full sense but is a tool to help highly effective teaching and support where a child is finding something difficult or where the skill they need to learn needs to be fluent and automatic. Carefully designed tasks allow children to practise key skills until they are fluent. It provides the mechanisms for assessing and monitoring progress.

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In the classroom, teachers use reinforcement in a variety of settings. For example, you may want to reinforce positive behaviours and rule-following, so students consistently meet expectations for their behaviour. Additionally, reinforcement can be used to help encourage students to put forth effort in the classroom. This lesson will help you learn how to reinforce and recognize effort so your students will work their hardest, even on activities that challenge them.

Find out more @ https://study.com/academy/lesson/reinforcing-effort-providing-recognition-in-the-classroom.html

Self and peer assessment are important aspects of assessment for learning practice. Assessing their own work or that of others can help pupils develop their understanding of learning objectives and success criteria. Research has shown that pupils make more progress when they are actively involved in their own learning and assessment.

Find out more @ https://www.nfer.ac.uk/pdf/getting-to-grips-with-assessment-4.pdf

ClassDojo is a communication app for the classroom. It connects teachers, parents, and students who use it to share photos, videos, and messages through the school day. They use ClassDojo to work together as a team, share in the classroom experience, and bring big ideas to life in their classrooms and homes. Class Dojo also includes a rewards system for children

Find out more @ https://www.classdojo.com/en-gb/

Websites such as Childline and Student Minds offer support and advice to young people feeling stressed about exams. Find out more @ https://www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/school-college-and-work/school-college/exam-stress/ and https://www.studentminds.org.uk/examstress.html

Motivate your children with attendance certificates. You could hold weekly award ceremonies and give out certificates to highest attending students or classes. You could also give certificates for other desirable attributes.

Training staff on how to create a growth mindset. Growth mindset refers to a learning theory developed by Dr Carol Dweck. It revolves around the belief that you can improve intelligence, ability and performance. The opposite, a fixed mindset, refers to the belief that a person’s talents are set in stone. Years of research have shown that mindset is malleable. This means that by helping students to develop a growth mindset, we can help them to learning more effective and efficient.

Find out more @ https://positivepsychologytraining.co.uk/training/growth-mindset/

“Signature strengths” refers to those character strengths that are most essential to who we are. Anyone can find out their character strengths by taking the free VIA survey. The VIA Survey of Character Strengths is a simple self-assessment that takes less than 15 minutes and provides a wealth of information to help you understand your core characteristics. Most personality tests focus on negative and neutral traits, but the VIA Survey focuses on your best qualities.

Find out more @ https://www.viacharacter.org

Kids'Skills is a practical method for helping children overcome all kinds of behavioral and emotional difficulties. It consists of 15 steps and is founded on the principles of solution-focused psychology. Kids'Skills Academy is an online training platform established jointly by Oppimaa Ltd. and Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute in Finland. The Academy is dedicated to disseminating information about the Kids'Skills method and other solution-focused methods used in working with families and children. The Academy offers video-based online training for professionals working in fields of education and childcare, as well as students of these fields. Find out more @ https://www.kidsskillsacademy.com/

Catch Up offers two structured one to one intervention for low attaining students in literacy or numeracy. Catch Up Literacy is a book based reading intervention which enables struggling readers to achieve more than double the progress of typically developing readers. Catch Up Numeracy is an intervention addressing 10 key components of numeracy which enables learners who struggle with numeracy to achieve more than double the progress of typically developing learners. Find out more @ https://www.catchup.org/interventions.php

Speech Link and Language Link help teachers to support speech, language and communication in the classroom. Screening, intervention and staff training are all included. Their online packages aim to empower SENCos, teachers and TAs in their work with SLCN and indicate the need for further support for the child where required.

Find out more @ https://speechandlanguage.info/

Find out more @ https://positivepsychologytraining.co.uk/training/growth-mindset/