Curriculum Delivery
Teachers to consider the following:
- Are opportunities taken to model extended vocabulary and promote incidental learning about structures of language?
- Are the instructions in the classroom clear, concise and consistent; with longer instructions broken down into smaller steps when required?
- Are names or other pre-arranged cues used to gain attention?
- Are young people who are meeting and exceeding classroom expectations frequently noticed and specifically praised, as appropriate to individual need?
- Is teaching delivered through:
- Sequential skills that are linked to prior learning?
- Using meaningful and useful tasks?
- Ensuring young people in the class understand the purpose of the lesson and the desired outcome?
- Teaching independent learning skills and not taking away the learning opportunity within the lesson?
- Practical, highly generalizable skills where possible?
- Providing targeted marking and feedback on identified areas of need?
- Effective use of peer support and grouping?
- Is a range of questioning used? For example, questions are used to the best effect when they include:
- Open questions to encourage discussion
- Multiple choice questions e.g. ‘tell me 3 things...’
- Questions that are pitched to challenge
- Questions to encourage participation, e.g who agrees with Grace and why?’
- Explicit teaching of different types of questioning
- Are young people who need it given;
- warning that you are going to ask them a question?
- time to formulate a response to the question?
- Are there are opportunities for groupings and pairings so that young people have access to positive language role models for their learning?
- Are Inclusive strategies used, such as:
- peer tutoring?
- co-operative learning?
- a no hands up policy at certain times?
- task management schedules/checklists?
- colourful semantics?
- Are young people given opportunities to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways, such as:
- Writing frameworks?
- Mind maps?
- Diagrams/pictures?
- Drama or oral communication?
- Explaining their learning to others?
- Speaking in a range of contexts?