2. Why do we sometimes need students to struggle in the classrooms at Banovallum School?

3. Struggling places you outside of your COMFORT ZONE
STRUGGLING is part of active and participatory learning
Because struggle sometimes leads to failure but can also lead to SUCCESS
Mistakes allow us to EVALUATE
Struggle can be the genius of INVENTION

4. What do I do now?
I can’t do it!
It’s impossible
It doesn’t work
I need help

5. What do your TEACHERS and TAs want you to do when you are struggling?
Greater independence from PUPILS
More input from TEACHERS and TAs

6. More input from TEACHERS and TAs
Greater independence from PUPILS

7. Use your PREVIOUS LEARNING
Q: What do your TEACHERS and TAs want you to do when you are struggling? A: See you SELF-SCAFFOLD
Use your BRAIN
Use your BOOKS
Use your PREVIOUS LEARNING
PROBLEM SOLVE as you go
Greater independence from PUPILS
More input from TEACHERS and TAs

8. “What have you got that could HELP YOU?”
Q: What do your TEACHERS and TAs want you to do when you are struggling? A: Accept a PROMPT
“What have you got that could HELP YOU?”
“Where’s your PLAN?”
“What did you do last? WHAT NEXT? ”
Greater independence from PUPILS
More input from TEACHERS and TAs

9. Often worded as a question and containing a KEY PIECE OF INFORMATION
Q: What do your TEACHERS and TAs want you to do when you are struggling? A: Accept a CLUE
Often worded as a question and containing a KEY PIECE OF INFORMATION
We will always offer a SMALL CLUE FIRST
Greater independence from PUPILS
More input from TEACHERS and TAs

10. MODEL a process or skill
Q: What do your TEACHERS and TAs want you to do when you are struggling? A: See it MODELLED
Give you an EXAMPLE
Direct you to a WAGOLL
MODEL a process or skill
Greater independence from PUPILS
More input from TEACHERS and TAs

11. PUPILS should always aim to APPLY KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS first.
CORRECTING – TEACHERS and TAs will avoid this whenever they can. CORRECTING involves providing the answers.
PUPILS should always aim to APPLY KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS first.
Greater independence from PUPILS
More input from TEACHERS and TAs

12. Sometimes to learn best you have to keep trying, struggle for a time
Sometimes to learn best you have to keep trying, struggle for a time. That’s why a teacher or a TA might offer you the least help first.

13. What is the least help you need from me?

14. Messages and Information from Staff

15. £184.00 on epraise (104 donations)
A Message from Mrs K…… Thank you – you generous bunch! So far we have raised….
£ from the cake sale
£ on epraise (104 donations)
£ from the sale of the daffodils and the stalls held each lunchtime in the student foyer.
£513.42