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PowerPoint Slides

Presenter Notes

Printable Handouts

Additional resources

The presentations are editable for you to adapt to your own context and the handouts can be distributed to staff and contain key information. Additional resources include links to other resources on the Teacher CPD Academy – video clips, articles and longer courses – which you can share with staff after the session.

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Effective Explanations

Explanations are a key component of our teaching repertoire. But how do you ensure that your explanations are effective and maximise student learning? This session covers 11 evidence-based strategies for delivering effective explanations, including directing student attention, examples and non-examples and linking to prior knowledge.
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Modelling

During modelling, a teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach. This is particularly important when students are expected to carry out a complex task. Done well, modelling can ensure that students can successfully complete independent practice. This session covers 8 evidence-based strategies for effective modelling including verbalising your thinking, preventing transitive models and worked examples.
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Questioning & Checking for Understanding

Every teacher asks a large number of questions in every lesson. But how do we ensure that these questions are maximising student thinking? This session covers 12 evidence-based strategies to improve your questioning in lessons including Cold-Calling, how to respond to ‘I don’t know’ and different types of questions.
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Practice & Scaffolding

Scaffolding is support that helps learners to solve a problem or complete a task that they would not be able to complete independently. Combining scaffolding with practice enables teachers to gradually remove scaffolds so that learners can solve problems independently. This session covers 10 evidence-based strategies for incorporating scaffolding and practice into lessons including transfer tasks, guided practice and guidance fading.
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Retrieval Practice

Retrieval Practice, or testing yourself on content, is one of the best bets for learning. But how can we effectively embed Retrieval Practice into our lessons? This session covers 12 evidence-based strategies for incorporating Retrieval Practice into your teaching including the difference between factual and higher order retrieval, low stakes retrieval and the value of feedback.

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