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Are you stuck for ways to stretch your best English students? By focusing on what excites and motivates all learners, this book provides you with a clear guide to ensuring sound provision for your gifted and talented students. Included is advice on: o how to identify more able students o what to do to get other staff on board o successful strategies for working with more able students o using ICT effectively in lessons and activities o how to measure students' progress o personalised learning. There is an accompanying CD which contains some photocopiable material and this will help you plan your lessons and departmental strategy.
Learning in English
Learning in English
What this chapter is about
- The movement from teaching to learning
- Some difficulties to do with establishing effective learning in the past
- Building a curriculum for the future
- Describing effective learning in English
- What long-term, medium-term and short-term planning could look like
- Models for planning for learning
The Shift Towards Learning and the Difficulties of Learning in English
The major discernible shift in education in English schools since the beginning of the twenty-first century has been the movement towards effective learning. Only a decade previously the emphasis had been firmly on teaching, but a number of significant publications, such as Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards through Classroom Assessment by Dylan Wiliam and Paul Black (1998), and a continuing re-appraisal of the ...
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