• Blog of the month

    Classroomtm is the blog of the month. It is run by Stephen Lockyer, who is a Deputy Head in Kent. You can follow him on twitter @MrLockyer. The site holds a collection of educational ideas and concepts including books, articles and Drop boxes. Within the Dropbox section there is access to a wealth of resources and ideas, separated into whole school and subject specific.

  • Resource of the month

    Ski Slope Learning allows for people to get to the same end result from different starting points. If you think about ski slopes there are several different degrees of difficulty, with green being the easiest and black being the hardest, however no matter which route you take you always get to the bottom. This method allows pupils to work at their own individual paces and has differentiated routes to ensure all pupils achieve the learning objective. The ski slope method also provides the opportunity for pupils to work independently and allows for rapid progressions.

  • How to share

    Do you have a great resource, idea or article about teaching and learning? If so please email a short explanation, any documents and any images about the resource to northfieldtl@northfieldssc.org.

  • Up and coming events

    Teachmeets are an opportunity for teachers to share ideas with other teachers. In a busy day, you rarely have time to have in depth conversations with other colleagues, let alone share resources. Volunteers are welcome to present their ideas in slots ranging from three minutes to seven. Come along and share good practice. All school teachers are welcome, please follow the link to sign up.

Monday 14 October 2013

The Final Tweet




One of the best plenary activities for English is something I like to call "The final tweet". When reading a book that has important key information or descriptive language that the students need to identify, it is important that they are selective and concise. Over-quoting an author is as bad as not using quotes at all. So, with the help of modern social networking I get students to get in character and tweet their thoughts with reference to the text. This plenary was about a character who goes back to Elizabethan London and has taken in a lot of information about their new surroundings. With a 140 character limit they just had enough battery for one tweet. Close reference to text is needed, as well as expressing the character's feelings. It's a really good way for them to independently locate and use relevant text and make some comment on character's thoughts, which builds an understanding of effect on reader.


By Andrew Taggart
Posted by Unknown at 09:41

0 comments :

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments ( Atom )