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May 19
Year 10 mock preparations are accelerating now🏎️ Today, a comparison between Exposure and SOTI allowed us to begin to embed our 'Essay Absolutes'🤝 One step at a time.
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May 18
I've always been really fascinated with how we truly build self-efficacy in the classroom - that quiet confidence which reduces the cognitive load, the fear, and enables the automaticity to truly succeed. The answer? Steps and Reps! 👣🏋️♂️
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May 17
Sunday CPD 🤓 Thanks for sharing some really useful ideas as always @SPryke2 & @HughesHaili 👏 Book arrives tomorrow 📬
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May 14
We needed to get our thesis statements secured 🔐 Across both Lang and Lit, students were struggling with this skill, so today, we started on a blank and built them together on randomised questions. Much better understanding 💪
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May 13
Live marking a response, thinking out loud and narrating where I'm awarding marks against the AOs and our 7 essay non-negotiables🗣️Didn't really know how engaged students would be with this one, but the level was incredibly high! 👏
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May 12
First time being observed teaching outside my specialism was a really positive experience 🙏 Having to develop my intellectual prep, examine how it can be broken down and carefully consider the pedagogical approach for each task without the "reps" of having taught it previously💡
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May 12
Identified from last night's review of their analytical paragraphs, we spent today addressing our gaps through 3 key targets 🎯 - examining key methods from COMH🌎 and applying them to our analytical construction 📉
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May 11
On Friday, there was a queue of students asking to take photos of all the essays we have co-constructed this academic year👏 Having the belief in the systems we have developed and citing our Absolutes fills me with joy 💪
Feb 24
Building on our essay absolutes today through our poetry analysis!🤝 Narrating the process, we constructed our responses and linked to compare the two respective poems🔗
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May 11
One final catch up before today's exam - A Breakfast Booster to make sure we're all fuelled and ready to go 🥐 Here goes another exam season! 👑🌲
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Mar 6
Grinding Period 5 on a Friday 👊 Co-construction, back-to-basics exploration of how to analyse Shakespeare's methods, scaffolded and modelled before utilising sentence stems to build our responses👑
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Mar 4
Intellectual prep and carefully considered (and responsive) scaffolding has never been more salient than with Y9's study of Lear👑 Bridging summaries, 'Helping Hand ' boxes, translations, and glossaries underpinned by our Academic Reading process🖐️
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Feb 27
Having to really carefully scaffold tasks this term to make Lear as accessible as possible for Year 9 🤴 Period 5 on a Friday was filled with analysis and developing sentence stems 🫡
Feb 25
Today, Y9 and I explored the role of Kent in 'King Lear' thus far 👑 Narrating the points, we captured ideas and discussed his impact as a fictional construct - ready for our analysis tomorrow 🤝
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Feb 26
Wednesday and Thursday crafting responses✍️ With whole-class feedback, we are able to respond to gaps within 24 hours and keep the sequencing tight and secure ⛓️ Forever a game changer🎮
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Feb 25
Today, Y9 and I explored the role of Kent in 'King Lear' thus far 👑 Narrating the points, we captured ideas and discussed his impact as a fictional construct - ready for our analysis tomorrow 🤝
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Feb 24
Building on our essay absolutes today through our poetry analysis!🤝 Narrating the process, we constructed our responses and linked to compare the two respective poems🔗
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Feb 23
Straight into a co-construction, live modelled response today to bolster our thesis and analysis alignment 🤝 6 simple steps to create our skeleton and then fine tuning to maximise marks 💪
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Jan 14
Had to dig a little deeper this year, building up confidence by co-construction, lending the expertise to individuals, and using low-stakes post-its to create an environment we could share and create together 🙏
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Today, it was all about the power of planning!💪Teaching students about thinking time, clever structuring, and prioritising mark-magnet crafting over rapid writing is such an important mindset shift in KS4🧠
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Jan 12
Completely abandoned the plan this morning to address misconceptions and re-model the process explicitly to Year 10! Narrating the process and drawing out student responses, we settled on:
⚙️PREP IT
🔄 FLIP IT
👨⚖️ PROVE IT
🔎 ANALYSE IT & ZOOM IN
🔗 LINK IT
👀 CHECK IT
Needed.
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