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Out now our Autumn 2024 Workshops Brochure. Click the link and book early to avoid disappointment.
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Make sure pupils understand exam command words. ⤵️✅ Go to & click ImpactPlus for more of our resources.
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Make sure pupils understand exam command words. ⤵️✅
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Forgetting is inevitable. Use retrieval practice to protect against it. Like this 👇
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NEW - A Christmas gift for all of our teacher & school followers to say thank you! If you'd like a pdf copy of our new #retrievalpractice sketchnote just comment below 🎄🎁
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Check the difference ⬇️
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To be an excellent writer you need to master the skill of sentence construction. These tables from @MarkMillerTeach on grammatical structures & style might help!
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Look 👀at these simple aide memoire pictures to remember homonym spellings & their meanings. Get your pupils to invent their own ✏👍
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What Great Leaders say... Do you?
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Look at this awesome list of coping strategies to help pupils self-regulate from Whole Hearted Counselling. Brilliant 👍👍
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This resource from @ASCD is such a great example of how literacy changes according to the subject context. What does it mean to Write Like A Scientist/Geographer/Artist...
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This resource from @ASCD is such a great example of how literacy changes according to the subject context. What does it mean to Write Like A Scientist/Geographer/Artist...
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Look at this 👀👇 from @edutopia 53 Ways to Check for Understanding 👍👍 A great list of formative assessment strategies.
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To create articulate learners we need to model effective oracy. Check out this awesome talk tool from 👀💚
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Look at this brilliant resource from Whole Hearted Counselling. Great range of coping strategies for learners 👍👍
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Look at this 👇 Rosenshine's principles of instruction matched with @Doug_Lemov Teach Like a Champion strategies. Brilliant resource to improve T&L from @lawn_manor
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This 👇 is a brilliant resource, not only to get pupils 'showing not telling' in their writing, but also to start discussions on inference. From
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NEW - Whole Class Feedback is about using an understanding of the learning of your class to plan for progress. Use our new template to try it out in your class✍️🤓🔥
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To be an excellent writer you need to master the skill of sentence construction. These tables from @MarkMillerTeach on grammatical structures & style might help!
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Write like a Scientist ✏📈 awesome resource from @ASCD . What does Literacy look like in your subject. Contact enquiries @impact .wales for support to find out!
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The Cornell Method of note taking example by J Bridgeman. Super useful for retrieval practice & organised.
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This 👇 is a brilliant resource, not only to get pupils 'showing not telling' in their writing, but also to start discussions on inference. From
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We 💙💚 this simple illustration of developing sentences. What would the same activity look like in science/geography/ICT?
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This 👇 is a brilliant resource, not only to get pupils 'showing not telling' in their writing, but also to start discussions on inference. From
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5 strategies of formative assessment from Dylan Wiliam. Use them to understand next steps for your learners.
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According to @EducEndowFoundn Metacognition & Self-regulation is one of the highest impact but lowest cost ways of accelerating pupil progress. How are you using it?
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Five formative assessment strategies from @dylanwiliam
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To be an excellent writer you need to master the skill of sentence construction. These tables from @MrNickHart on grammatical structures & style might help!
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To create articulate learners we need to model effective oracy. Check out this awesome talk tool from 👀💚
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Look at this brilliant resource to develop questioning from Ged Gast. Super useful 👇👍👍
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Write like a Scientist ✏📈 awesome resource from @ASCD . What does Literacy look like in your subject. Contact enquiries @impact .wales for support to find out!
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Children who know more words read better AND think better. A wide vocabulary improves cognitive processing. Teach your pupils more tier 2 words 🧠☑
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10 ideas to create a reading culture in your school 📚
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What's the difference between Assessment OF Learning and Assessment FOR Learning?
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Direct or explicit instruction is often misrepresented as "chalk & talk". This is what it really is 👇
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Look at this 👇 Rosenshine's principles of instruction matched with @Doug_Lemov Teach Like a Champion strategies. Brilliant resource to improve T&L from @Ju5tinDelap
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Make sure pupils understand exam command words. ⤵️✅
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These are the 7 knowledge bases teachers need to become truly expert. We can help you build your knowledge enquiries @impact .wales
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To be an excellent writer you need to master the skill of sentence construction. These tables from @MrNickHart on grammatical structures & style might help!
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This is a brilliant resource by @brad_teacher . Use it to create remote learning that works! 👏👏👏
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What Great Leaders say to Highly Engaged Teams. How many of these 👇 are a regular feature of your vocabulary?
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We 💙 this gamified question hierarchy! Brilliant way to dig into that text 📚📚👍🏻
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Love ❤ this questioning resource from @MissBanksEng . Thank you for sharing 👍👍
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To create articulate learners we need to model effective oracy. Check out this awesome talk tool from 👀💚
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If you're teaching pupils vocabulary then the Frayer Model is invaluable. These resources from John Hopkins Uni are fab, complete with lesson plan & original research 👏 👌
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Coronavirus - how we’re going to help. If schools are closed teachers will need free, easy to use, high impact resources they can email direct to pupils to keep their learning on track. We’re working on it ⬇️ Plz RT
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According to @EducEndowFoundn Metacognition & Self-regulation is one of the highest impact but lowest cost ways of accelerating pupil progress. How are you using it?
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Make sure your students understand exam command words.
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NEW Cognitive Load Theory - a short guide for teachers. Use our new sketchnote to reduce the cognitive load for your learners & accelerate their progress. Please RT & share with your colleagues 💭💡👍🏻
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The Cornell Method of note taking example by J Bridgeman. Super useful for retrieval practice & organised.
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24 Exit Ticket Questions from @finleyt . Super useful resource 👇
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We know that a wide vocabulary is linked with academic success. Teach your students more words using this awesome Frayer Model ⬇️🔥👌
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This 👇 is awesome! A complete guide to using an apostrophe by Amanda Schupak. We 💚 the flowchart!
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This highly useful list for instruction was shared by @dylanwiliam and it's amazing. Created by @WhatWorksED it covers what research tells us about learning. Take a look 🧐👇👌
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What Great Leaders say... Do you?
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Use our Exam Command Words guide to help pupils answer exam questions effectively.
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According to @EducEndowFoundn Metacognition & Self-regulation is one of the highest impact but lowest cost ways of accelerating pupil progress. How are you using it?
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Direct or explicit instruction is often misrepresented as "chalk & talk". This is what it really is 👇
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Brilliant graphic to explain the difference between Formative & Summative Assessment. Which are you using & why?
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How do we learn? Look at this brilliant resource on the cognitive science of learning from @ncasenmare One to share with your colleagues 👇🔥
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NEW Our guide to Exam Command Words. Share it👇🏻with your pupils, help them: ✅ Know what the command word asks you to do ✅ Use the concept map to plan your answer ✅ Check your use of language
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Look at this 👀👇 from @edutopia 53 Ways to Check for Understanding 👍👍 A great list of formative assessment strategies.
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How to reduce Cognitive Overload. Brilliant practical strategies from @finleyt
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Do you struggle to know when you need a semicolon? Worry no more ⬇️✅👍
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We think how we speak. Support children to stay positive by checking the language you use to describe what's going on right now ⬇️👍
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If you want to use research-informed strategies but don't know where to start, start here 👇👇 Free retrieval practice guide download complete with strategies to trial. Awesome!!
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Reading comprehension isn't just 'finding information in a text'. It's far more complex than that. This ⬇️ is what's actually going on.
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What Great Leaders say... Do you?
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This is a MUST read for all teachers. The 8 pieces of research that will change your practice from @RogersHistory
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🤔Are you overloaded with marking? 🤔Do pupils ignore your comments? 👍Try whole class feedback ⬇️
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This is awesome 👏 25 Giants of Rhetoric by . Perfect to improve quality of writing!
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Teach for Learning. To embed learning deeply in the memory you have to engage deeply with it. Learning IS thinking. Check out 5 ways of making sure your pupils are thinking 💭 & learning!
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Whole Class Feedback is about using an understanding of the learning of your class to plan for progress. Use our template to try it out during remote learning ✍️🤓🔥
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This question grid is amazing! Combining Bloom's & Marzano it details enough Qs to keep your pupils thinking 💭💭💥
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This question grid is amazing! Combining Bloom's & Marzano it details enough Qs to keep your pupils thinking 💭💭💥
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We 💚💛 concept maps to help pupils organise their thinking. How often do you use them with pupils?
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Look at these awesome self-regulation prompts to help pupils manage their emotions from Whole-hearted Counselling. Super useful 👍👍
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Children who know more words read better AND think better. A wide vocabulary improves cognitive processing. Teach your pupils more tier 2 words 🧠☑
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All teachers should be explicitly teaching pupils how to improve their speaking & listening skills. Read this brilliant report on importance of Oracy in curriculum in Wales
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How to ask great questions. Understand pupils' learning & support their oracy. Here's how ⬇️👍
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Challenging pupils is about the depth of the thinking tasks require. Check out Webb's Levels below, how 'deep' are your tasks?
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What Great Leaders say to Highly Engaged Teams. How many of these 👇 are a regular feature of your vocabulary?
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What leadership looks like...
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Every teacher should know Dunlosky’s 5 most effective learning strategies. Use our sketchnote to understand each strategy and what it looks like in the classroom.
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High Impact Teaching. 💥know what learning you expect 💥elicit evidence of the learning 💥tell pupils how they've done
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This 👇 is a brilliant resource, not only to get pupils 'showing not telling' in their writing, but also to start discussions on inference. From
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Make time to help children learn & love maths. 12 strategies from @joboaler
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This resource from @ASCD is such a great example of how literacy changes according to the subject context. What does it mean to Write Like A Scientist/Geographer/Artist...
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Deepen the learning in your classroom by using one of the six cognitive processing strategies suggested by Craik & Lockhart's seminal research ⬇️✅️
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NEW - Checking for Understanding in a remote classroom. 5 straightforward ways to find out what students are thinking & learning from behind a screen 💻❓💭💡👍🏻
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10 benefits of Low Stakes Testing. If you're not using this highly effective learning strategy with your pupils... Why not??
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NEW - Questioning - the most under-utilised pedagogical approach. Asking questions to develop pupils’ learning takes planning & focus. Use our 5 step template to help improve your questioning & pupils’ learning.
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