Monday, 30 October 2017

How to Start a LESSON with students

How to introduce a lesson to make allow students to discover the learning, rather than tell them the WALT and S:C

Very helpful and more engaging for our students - a problem solving approach that invites students to discover, imitate, ...

Remember to scaffold the process------ After one time it will still be fragile..... it takes time and practice for students to embed this earning..


“Over the year we have been writing some memoir pieces and have used other memoirists to help us get better at it. Today we will be reading a memoir by Gavin Bishop and we will see what he can teach us about memoir writing. He uses some pretty interesting punctuation in here. We are going to find it, and work out why he chooses to use this particular punctuation in this particular text. How does it help the effectiveness of his writing? It might help us make decisions in our own writing – let’s see.”