Designing & Implementing
Learning Tools
LET’S DRILL
Correct:
Correct:
When will the school vacate?
When will the school vacate the term?
The man vacated his residence.
Correct:
Correct:
The chief decamped from PDP to APC.
The chief defected from PDP to APC.
The accountant decamped with my money.
What Makes Great Teaching?
Questions you may consider:
What do highly effective teachers do?
What are your top three criteria for highly
effective teaching?
Quote
Starting a new topic with a brainstorming activity,
from an intellectual angle, can be a one-fold but
effective way of inspecting learners’ prior learning
and understanding.
- Teacher Adugba Godwin
Characteristics of Highly Effective Teachers
Highly effective teachers:
• Generate genuine warmth and empathy
• Create a sense of security about learning – encouraging
experimentation
• Use highly interactive whole class instruction
• Encourage students to communicate frequently with
one another
• Develop meta-cognitive skills
- P Sammons, et al (2014)
Which has the most impact on student outcomes?
• Classroom discussion (about learning)
• Co-operative learning (group work)
• Feedback (written and verbal from teachers)
• Individualised instruction (1:1)
• Pupil mobility (moving between schools)
• Open plan teaching spaces
• Holding pupils back a year if they have not made the grade
• Students expectation of themselves
• Study skills (to know how to be independent)
J. Hattie (2010)
Hattie’s analysis: Outcome
• Students’ expectation of themselves 1.44
• Classroom discussion 0.8
• Feedback 0.75
• Study skill 0.63
• Co-operative learning 0.4
• Individualised instruction 0.22
• Open plan teaching spaces 0.01
• Holding pupil back a year if needed -0.13
• Pupil mobility -0.34
Green: significant difference
Designing Tools
Questioning Techniques Checklist
Teacher’s Name: _____________________
Description
My students were active today during the questioning
section
They all got an opportunity to answer questions
Use students answer as a start for further questioning
Teacher asks questions which require students to analyze
or speculate
Yes
No
Learning Behaviours Table
Teacher’s Name: ____________
Mark each statement with a tick, a cross or a question mark as you
feel appropriate.
It is always beneficial to learning when students …
×
Understand concepts
√
Chorus responses
Rely on formulae
×
Memorize facts
√
Link ideas together
√
Work beyond the lesson or syllabus
?
Accept new facts uncritically
×
Relate learning to real world
×
Are motivated by interest
√
Are motivated by a fear of failure
?
Group Activity
Groups to ballot and pick one of these learning
tools and implement for effective learning:
1. Pre-lesson evaluation
2. Post-lesson indicator
3. Activity plan
4. Leadership for learning (LfL)
5. Stages of team development
6. Stages of building commitment
You have 10 minutes to execute