1. Planning Learning

2. Accelerated Learning Cycle
Cramlington Learning Village and Preston Lodge High School
Helps keep your lessons focussed and relevant
Series of lessons

3. Connect Might be a hook Where does this fit into the big picture?
What questions might they already have about topic?
Why is this relevant to the learner?
(not everyone wants to be a Scientist)

4. Share the learning intentions + success criteria
Co-operation
Skills
Content
Opportunity for everyone to make progress

5. Share New Information
This is the teaching bit.
Video
PPt
News article
Demonstration
Piece of text
Opportunity to develop learning skills here (modelling strategies etc)

6. Search for meaning
Activity to familiarise and get to grips with... Opportunity to feedback
Series of questions
Card sort
Scenarios
Diagrams to label etc.
Experiment
Opportunity to develop learning skills here (modelling strategies etc)

7. Demonstrate understanding
This is the finding out of if they’ve got it bit
Quiz
Make a model
Explain it to someone else
Write an essay
Past paper questions
A test

8. Review and Reflect Opportunity to discuss how we’re doing
Revisit success criteria
Skills as well as content

9. SOLO Taxonomy

10. Biggest lesson I’ve learned...
Sometimes the most engaging activity is just a question
If it’s not going to actually move their understanding forward, DITCH IT – ask their opinions
Make as much time as possible for MEANINGFUL feedback