100 minute lessons - Communications
- 1. Scaffolding is important in 100 minute lessons. We have the time to show students what the expectations are as well as giving them time to meet these standards. This allows them to focus on the idea of developing quality in their work. COMMUNICATIONS FACULTY A School lunch hall Condensation slides its way down the window, leaving behind it a ribbon of smooth, murky darkness. The sheer suffocating heat and humidity inside suggests the number of drenched bodies seeking refuge from the relentless onslaught of rain. In one corner, a single teacher loses the battle to restrain a group of shouting children and is swamped in a wave of uniformed bodies. Buzzing with anticipation, their instincts triggered by the promise of food, the mass of children charges past him into the canteen.
- 2. Students have chance to do learning walks where they look at what others are doing, comment on this and then use ideas within their own work. COMMUNICATIONS FACULTY
- 3. We are able to build in time across a lesson/series of lessons to have individual time with students. Tutorial style lessons work well when feeding back on a piece of work. COMMUNICATIONS FACULTY
- 4. We are able to build in reflection points throughout the lesson to track progress in relation to the LOs. COMMUNICATIONS FACULTY Self Peer Learning Objectives Have you met this objective? How do you know? Have they met this objective? How do you know? To be able to list a range of persuasive features. To be able to identify these features in a text. To be able to analyse how these features affect a reader.