Teachers’ agenda

1. Introduction

We are learning to share successes and failures, and support each other, to improve classroom questioning and discussion, and to involve all students in lessons.

2. Starter activity

30 seconds to tell others about something at school that made you feel good during the last month.

3. Feedback

Feed back on the techniques you have attempted (and what you are doing less of) since the last meeting.

Refer to what you planned to do in your personal action plan at the last meeting; you will need ‘my personal action plan’.

Read through handout 1.3.1 Supporting each other.

Two minutes per teacher, with others actively listening.

4. Finding out what students are learning during a lesson

Handout 1.3.2 Some techniques for finding out what students are learning: read it through individually, discuss in pairs and feed back to the group.

5. Personal action planning

Complete ‘my personal action plan’, choosing one or two techniques you are going to use during the next month and what you will do less of. Share your plan with your partner, then listen to your partner’s plan.

Arrange for your partner to observe you using one of these techniques in a class and give you feedback, and agree when the observation will take place (it can be for a whole lesson or just for 20 minutes at the start, middle or end of a lesson). Use the peer lesson observation sheet; the teacher and the observer keep a copy each.

Two or three teachers share with the group what their partner is planning.

6. Summary of learning

Name something you learned in this workshop (no repeats).