{"id":625,"date":"2017-02-07T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/?p=625"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:16:09","slug":"action-research-teaching-and-learning-communities-jan-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/2017\/02\/07\/action-research-teaching-and-learning-communities-jan-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Action research: Teaching and Learning Communities: Jan 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Approach:<\/span> <strong>Lesson Study in planning teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Line of enquiry:<\/span><strong> Differentiation when teaching whole class (and without ability groups) to ensure all pupils progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #0070c0; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Learning:<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cf \u2018Marvellous mistakes\u2019 approach supportive of all pupils and very effective method for exploring the learning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u25cf <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Use of Talk Partners , changed weekly and with well-established routines<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">supportive of all pupils and also promoting<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">greater <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">autonomy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u25cf <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Use of pre-teaching of key skills\/ concepts to pupils who might lack confidence highly effective at setting them up for success in the lesson to come.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cf Sentence starters can be very helpful scaffolding for pupils when they are attempting deeper lines of enquiry. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cf Providing opportunities for pupils to pose their own questions from a prompt (patterns seen, puzzles, questions, ideas) can empower them \/ help them become more autonomous.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cf Dynamic use of visualiser to demonstrate learning mid lesson again supportive; again involves building on mistakes (or strengths) ; again allows for in depth exploring of the learning.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cfCareful choice of low threshold high ceiling challenge very important.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cf Importance of awareness \/ planning for possibilities to extend\/adapt the learning mid lesson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cf Important of pupil understanding mathematical (or other) language and supporting pupils to understand this- as a way into learning\/ as an important success criteria<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">for the learning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u25cf Importance of using different question types. Importance of both explicit<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">targeted questioning and more open ended questioning to ensure both support and autonomy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approach: Lesson Study in planning teams Line of enquiry: Differentiation when teaching whole class (and without ability groups) to ensure all pupils progress. Learning:\u00a0 \u25cf \u2018Marvellous mistakes\u2019 approach supportive of all pupils and very effective method for exploring the learning. \u25cf Use of Talk Partners , changed weekly and with well-established routines\u00a0 \u00a0supportive of all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/2017\/02\/07\/action-research-teaching-and-learning-communities-jan-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Action research: Teaching and Learning Communities: Jan 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}