Shirley Clarke offers a comprehensive resource for educators, featuring high-quality ideas and practical strategies tailored for both primary and secondary school settings. The book includes detailed classroom examples and whole-school case studies, making it an invaluable guide for teachers seeking to enhance their instructional practices and improve student outcomes.
Laminated, 8.5”x11” tri-fold (6 pages), 3-hole punched. All students need to know that they trust teachers to have their best interests at heart but also to believe that they can reach our high expectations of them. We need to encourage students to reveal their misunderstandings, normalizing error as an exciting aspect of learning: feedback when there is misunderstanding is most powerful, as it indicates that the student is on the brink of new learning. This guide encompasses tried and tested ideas for delving into students’ understanding so that we can act appropriately in helping them learn. Teachers will learn: - the importance of student-to-teacher feedback - how to check for understanding with the whole class and individual students - question templates for uncovering student thinking
Focusing on metacognition, this handbook provides engaging lesson plans and activities designed for primary school educators. It covers a range of grades from Reception through KS1 and KS2, offering practical strategies to enhance students' thinking skills and self-awareness in learning.
The expert's guide to making LISC work for you! In over twenty years of research, Shirley Clarke has found that the key to understanding, creating, and implementing LISC is to focus on the process of learning rather than the product, or end result. In this practical guide, she shows you: · How to phrase learning intentions, organize and plan for them, and share them with students · How to create success criteria to fit each learning intention · How to adapt these practices to different disciplines--with examples · Implementation strategies based on real-life teacher success stories
Bridging the gap between research and practice A Little Guide for Teachers: Formative Assessment gives teachers practical tried and tested strategies to put formative assessment into action in their classrooms.
Maximises pupil engagement, effective dialogue and reflective thinking and ispacked with practical advice from early years to secondary.
"Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators, combining Hattie's world famous research expertise with Clarke's vast experience of classroom practice and application. Areas covered include the variability of feedback, the importance of surface, deep and transfer contexts, student to teacher feedback, the power of peer feedback and the power of within-lesson feedback. Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning and no other book currently available combines research excellence, theory and vast practical expertise in the same way, making this book an essential resource for teachers in any setting, phase or country"--
Enormous success of Shirley's 'Unlocking Formative Assessment' and 'Targeting Assessment in the Primary Classroom' broke all sales records for the teacher- education market. schovat popis
Theory and Practice for Building a Compassionate Culture for All Educators and Children
The book offers insights from experts in formative assessment, psychotherapy, and school leadership to address anxiety in primary school settings. It focuses on practical strategies to enhance children's well-being, emphasizing the importance of understanding and mitigating anxiety in educational environments. Through collaboration among specialists, it aims to provide educators with effective tools to support anxious students and foster a healthier school atmosphere.
Most teachers are familiar with the "turn and talk" and "think-pair-share" strategies for partner talk. However, there is a more effective way to do partner talk that results in better behavior, greater focus, higher quality work, and greater confidence in learning. Backed by over 18 years of research, Shirley Clarke shares a tried and true method for engaging students in learning through randomly chosen talk partners. This On-Your-Feet Guide Full of helpful resources and ideas for explicit instruction, this guide will make partner talk a successful learning strategy in your classroom! Laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), 3-hole punched