Teachers’ agenda

1. Introduction

We are learning to share successes and failures, and support each other, to mark less while giving students more responsibility, and to keep records of students’ progress that help teaching and learning.

2. Starter activity

30 seconds each: one thing that made teaching hard this month, and one small thing that helped. Just listen; no solutions yet.

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’.

Two minutes per teacher, with others actively listening.

4. Providing feedback that moves learners forward

Read handout 1.4.1 Some feedback techniques that make students think individually, then discuss in groups of four how some of the techniques could work in your classrooms.

As a whole group, discuss how you might record your marking and how it might save you time.

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).