Many students agonise over creative writing and believe they aren’t good writers. Some believe, for example, that they can’t have good ideas. Some students believe that they can’t be good writers because they get low scores in spelling, and some students have been crushed when their entertaining story has achieved a C-grade. How do we help […]
Who is the Third Teacher? The Third Teacher in your classroom is the learning environment. The first teacher is the PARENT, the second the CLASSROOM TEACHER and the third is the LEARNING ENVIRONMENT you create for your students. Healthy relationships between all three contribute to student wellbeing and success. To be an effective Third Teacher, […]
Do you know how to make your learning walls interactive, so that all students can access them easily? This is an important question to ask yourself when planning for the learning that is going to take place. Will your students come up to the wall and then mentally take information back to their desk? Are […]
Table of ContentsWhy is it Important to Co-construct Success Criteria?How to Co-construct Success Criteria (Text-type example)Co-constructing Success Criteria Teaching SequenceWhat if I don’t Have Time to Co-construct Success Criteria? One of the common challenges teachers have when using bump-it-up walls and learning walls is knowing how to co-construct success criteria. I used to write the […]