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  • Support for early career teachers
  • Education Development Trust
  • Year 1: First half-term: developing effective classroom practice

    • Learning outcomes

    The intended outcomes of this activity are for you to:

    Learn that:

    • Effective teaching can transform pupils’ knowledge, capabilities and beliefs about learning.
    • Effective teachers introduce new material in steps, explicitly linking new ideas to what has been previously studied and learned.
    • Modelling helps pupils understand new processes and ideas; good models make abstract ideas concrete and accessible.
    • Guides, scaffolds and worked examples can help pupils apply new ideas, but should be gradually removed as pupil expertise increases.
    • Practice is an integral part of effective teaching; ensuring pupils have repeated opportunities to practise, with appropriate guidance and support, increases success.

    In your notepad

    As you work this through activity try to answer the following questions:

    • why is introducing new material in steps so important?
    • why should you explicitly link new ideas to what has been previously studied and learned?
    • what are three characteristics of effective modelling?
    • why should you consider when and how you will remove support and/or scaffolding?
    • why is pupil practice important?