Instruction
In this module you’ll cover:
- the link between effective instruction and pupil learning
- the elements of explicit instruction and the ‘I-we-you’ model as a useful way of approaching this
- how instruction can support more effective pupil thinking
Week 1: module overview and re-contracting
Introduces foundational elements of instruction and supports teachers and mentors to set up effective ways of working.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Introduces foundational elements of instruction and supports teachers and mentors to set up effective ways of working.
Week 2: identifying learning content
Focuses on identifying essential concepts and considering their role in planning and assessment.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Focuses on identifying essential concepts and considering their role in planning and assessment.
Week 3: instruction for memory
Considers how teaching can support lasting change in pupils.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Considers how teaching can support lasting change in pupils.
Week 4: prior knowledge
Examines the implications prior knowledge and misconceptions have on instruction.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Examines the implications prior knowledge and misconceptions have on instruction.
Week 5: teacher exposition
Explores the challenge(s) when introducing new information and how modelling, explanations and scaffolds can help.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Explores the challenge(s) when introducing new information and how modelling, explanations and scaffolds can help.
Week 6: adapting teaching
Focuses on how effective instruction requires adapting teaching to support and challenge all pupils.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Focuses on how effective instruction requires adapting teaching to support and challenge all pupils.
Week 7: practice, challenge and success
Examines what constitutes purposeful practice and how practice is an integral part of effective teaching.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Examines what constitutes purposeful practice and how practice is an integral part of effective teaching.
Week 8: explicit teaching
Explores explicit teaching across a lesson/unit of learning.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Explores explicit teaching across a lesson/unit of learning.
Week 9: scaffolding
Focuses on how scaffolds and worked examples can help pupils and how to gradually remove them.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Focuses on how scaffolds and worked examples can help pupils and how to gradually remove them.
Week 10: questioning
Looks at how effective questions can deepen and extend pupil thinking.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Looks at how effective questions can deepen and extend pupil thinking.
Week 11: classroom talk
Explores how classroom talk can help to develop pupils’ mental models.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Explores how classroom talk can help to develop pupils’ mental models.
Week 12: feedback
Examines the link between teacher questions, feedback for pupils and responsive instruction.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Mentors
Examines the link between teacher questions, feedback for pupils and responsive instruction.