Slides introducing SMART as a way of setting more effective goals.

Progress Chart for children to add own success criteria for the different SOLO levels: Prestructural, Unisstructural, Multistructural, Relational, Extended Abstract.

Quick and easy game to help children appreciate the effect of adjectives on a piece of writing. Open the file in your browser (probably worth making text bigger to suit the age) Read through with your students Ask them to choose their favourite adjectives and add them in the boxes at the bottom. Click "Fox it up" And reread the text with the new adjectives automagically added.

This is a simple game to show the power of adjectives. Open up the page and you will see the original opening of Alice in Wonderland. Add 20 adjectives that your class suggest and you can it will randomly add them to the story.

For primary aged English students, a quick revision recap.

A randomised plenary picker. Start the presentation to start spinning. Press S to stop. You can add/edit/delete slides to fit your subject.

Almost all the children in my classes play Clash of Clans, so I thought it would a good basis to try my first 3-Act lesson, as per Dan Meyer. Act 1: The set-up Introduce Clash of Clans / make sure everyone understands it Show video of time-lapse growth and ask for questions Discuss everyone’s questions – which interesting, which mathematical etc Make list of these so can come back to them and try to answer Ask for estimates of real cost of walls in gems. Act 2: The Wrestle Ask what sort of information we’d need to work out the answer Discuss approach: keep it precise help with proportion / rate problems if need be but

Various of my class struggled with many of the words in the book. This was my effort at giving them a leg up. The definitions are from Easydefine.com but I have tweaked them slightly.