Webinar
Time-Saving Teaching
6 instant strategies to improve your teaching
Ruth Powley
Email ruth.powley1@gmail.com
Website www.lovelearningideas.com
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Why knowing your pedagogy matters
“Some effective techniques are underutilized – many teachers do not learn
about them” [Dunlosky].
If teachers don’t understand and utilise the pedagogy behind teaching, we
run the risks of:
• Failing to make the most effective and efficient choices about what
works
• Being unable to engage effectively in necessary discussion about what
works
• Reinforcing ‘learned helplessness’
1. Retrieval Starters
Evidence
Rosenshine: mastery learning 17 Principles of Effective Instruction
Bjork: retrieval as a memory modifier Learning and Forgetting Lab
“When information is successfully retrieved from memory, its representation in memory is changed such
that it becomes more recallable in the future” [Bjork].
Strategy to improve students’ permanent learning
5-8 minute review/ quiz with questions on:
To retrieve key knowledge from last lesson
To retrieve key knowledge from last week
To retrieve key knowledge from last term
To retrieve key knowledge from last lesson and connect it to knowledge from last term
Time Saved
Preparing resources for starter activities
2. Guided Instruction
Evidence
Rosenshine: mastery learning 17 Principles of Effective Instruction
Kirscher,Sweller & Clark: Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work
“The most successful teachers... spent more than half of the class time lecturing, demonstrating, and
asking questions... Teachers who spent more time in guided practice...also had students who were more
engaged during individual work” [Rosenshine].
Strategies to utilise students’ working memory
Guided instruction
Re-guided instruction
Worked examples (novice learners)
Problem solving (expert learners)
Interleaving (permanent learning)
Time Saved
Preparing unnecessary ‘discovery’ activities, and ordering activities incorrectly
3. Questioning for Learning
Evidence
Rosenshine: mastery learning 17 Principles of Effective Instruction
Dunlosky: What Works, What Doesn’t
“Less successful teachers ask fewer questions and almost no process questions” [Rosenshine]
Strategies to check students’ learning
Hinge questions: My Favourite No
Elaborative interrogation: (Why+ questions) When is X true? Why X not Y?
Self-explanation
Bingo questions: Connect, expand, defend, disagree, diverge, rephrase, summarise
Time Saved
Time planning unnecessary resources for ‘progress checking’
4. Oral Pedagogy
Evidence
Rosenshine: mastery learning 17 Principles of Effective Instruction
“Material will be forgotten unless there is sufficient rehearsal” [Rosenshine].
Strategies to embed excellence
Say it again properly
What do you think?
The Power of Yet: Mindset language
Time Saved
Written correction marking and instruction time
5. Struggle Plenaries
Evidence
Rosenshine: optimal success rate 80%: Students are learning but still challenged 17 Principles of Effective
Instruction
“Learning happens when people have to think hard” [Coe].
Strategies to check student learning at optimal rate
What have you struggled with this lesson?
What was hard?
Why was it hard?
Use this to plan your next lesson.
Time Saved
Preparing resources for plenary activities
6. Testing for Learning
Evidence
Bjork: Desirable Difficulties: Constant cues create an illusion of fluency
Roediger: 10 Benefits of Testing
“As learning occurs so does forgetting” Nuthall.
Strategies to check overlearning of 20%
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Practice Testing
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Distributed (spaced) Practice
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Interleaved Practice
Time Saved
Don’t do more, rearrange what you do and blend re-study with testing
Where do I go from here?
Available from Optimus Education
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Mastery Lesson Plan http://bit.ly/1zZHEOm
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8 Ways to Bring Your Teaching Up To Date http://bit.ly/1xMffyl
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Tailored CPD
Questions & Answers
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