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Bridgend College.
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Courses
Asking Effective Questions
Encourage curiosity, critical thinking, and help consolidate student learning through asking effective questions.
Delivering Feedback
Make your feedback actionable and process-focused. Use effective feedback to empower students to take ownership of learning.
Metacognition
Develop students' metacognitive skills, helping them pick positive thought processes and strategies to boost learning, performance and well-being.
Adaptive Teaching
Support student learning by making impactful adjustments to instruction whilst maintaining high expectations for everyone.
College Unpacked
Checks for Understanding
Doug Lemov unpacks how to use checks for understanding and targeted questioning to ensure that students are fully aware of task demands before they head off to complete independent work.
How to deal with 'I don't know'
Dr Claire Badger unpacks the reasons why students may respond to your questions with ‘I don’t know’. Claire highlights some strategies you can use to ensure students don’t use ‘I don’t know’ simply as a way to opt out of thinking hard.
Making group work work
Doug Lemov unpacks how to make group work work. Doug shows how to select group tasks which provide opportunities for student discussion and how to draw all students in when giving feedback.
Scaffolding and connecting to prior knowledge
Dr Claire Badger unpacks how and when to incorporate scaffolding into your teaching. Claire shows the difference between good and great scaffolding and highlights the importance of setting up students to complete work independently.
Calling your shot
Doug Lemov unpacks how to “Call your shot” during modelling. Doug shows how we can draw attention to specific features of our models to better set up students for independent tasks.
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Cognitive Load Theory
Cognitive Load Theory highlights that all information first has to go through our working memory, which has a limited capacity. Too much information can overload students' brain, which can hinder or even completely halt transfer to their long-term memory – which is where learning happens.
