These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
These resources span my career; from my period of teaching unqualified, through to an AST of English & Director of Teaching & Learning. Although my specialism is English, I have taught GCSE Citzienship, Language and Lit, Media Studies, Maths & History. I have also taught all of those at Key Stage 3, so there is an eclectic mix here. As the main trainer in my previous school, I have uploaded many insets and training session powerpoints too.
This is a full powerpoint with resources at the back of it, designed to help someone to lead a twilight session (approximately 1 1/2hrs to 2hrs) on why we need to differentiate and ideas of how it can be done.
The session is interactive with little exercises for the teachers to take art in s that they can consider the impact of the structures for differentiating in their own classrooms.
Training covers differentiation for different types of learners as well as ability.
If you're buying this, you will need to have some knowledge of differentiation to deliver it, so that you can deconstruct the activities after you have tried them with the trainees.
In brief, this resource is a full assessment system that can be used both in English and other subjects (literacy across the curriculum) in order to assess the writing grades of students and to help them to diagnose their own areas for development, as well as setting targets for improving writing skills. This is not available anywhere else other than on the TES
This system is all my own work and I have created the grade descriptors from scratch, using:
The GCSE descriptors or writing from AQA and Edexcel combined – therefore, they are as generic as they can be and are not board specific.
My own extensive experience of English teaching and exam marking.
Basically, I have broken down each grade from 1-9 and matched them to the skills that pupils should need in order to achieve the grade (as a best fit). This has been done by calculating how old GCSE grades (A*-G) correlate against 1-9 and benchmarking a low C at the Grade 4. Obviously, there will be variation of grades at the end of the GCSE year for year 11, as they are set on a national curve BUT these resources lay the foundations for assessment in KS3 and to ensure that teachers within a school or department can benchmark and describe what they expect each grade to look like and what students need to be able to do to hit a grade in writing. Therefore offering complete consistency and clarity for students and teachers within a school.
The resource includes:
Grade descriptors for writing for 1-9
9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for both AO4 and AO5
9 assessment sheets for each grade 1-9 for punctuation only, so that teachers can break down the focus if they want to
A training PowerPoint for all staff that allows the lead to deliver a fully interactive session
All resources for that session
A training PowerPoint for the English dept. that allows the lead to deliver a full explanation of how to use the materials
All resources for that session
This resource is all ready for you to start working with as soon as you download it.
This is a full and detailed PowerPoint that consists of 122 slides in total. It is fully interactive training that was originally created for College / Sixth form teachers to update them on all of the changes that have been made to the KS3 curriculum, and to the specifications for GCSE. This would also be ideal for Governor training so that Governors have a fuller understanding of the English curriculum in secondary school. Also, hughl;y suitable for NQTs / PGCE students.
Session Aims:
To understand the changes to the skills and content of the key stage 3 curriculum.
To gain an understanding of the current English Language GCSE landscape.
To enhance your knowledge of the upcoming specification changes to GCSE English Language and Literature.
The training covers:
The key changes for the KS3 Curriculum for English.
The content and the skills that are required to be covered in English at Key Stage 3
Opportunities to extend the new curriculum into Literacy Across The Curriculum.
How pupil progress will be assessed.
The GCSE Landscape – What Pupils are studying now.
What’s next – the new GCSE specifications and the challenges they will bring.
This resource includes a full Reading, Writing and Communication Policy for secondary schools, that is based on the KS2/KS3 Glossary for the National Curriculum. The SPAG terms from the glossary are split into each half term so that they can be incorporated into lessons for all teachers, across all subject areas.
In this resource, there is a full overview of the policy and then 3 Glossaries - one for three of the half terms. I didn't complete the other three, unfortunately. The glossaries are to support teachers of other subjects with some of the more difficult terms.
The policy includes the following:
Literacy Focus: - Based on what is being taught in English (reading and Writing)
Spelling Focus: - Taken from the KS2 programmes of Study
Spoken Language Focus: - Basics expected at all times / in all places – taken from the KS3 strands. Some additions based on recapping KS2 and developing those in KS3 POS.
Key Terms – Spread throughout the year using the Non-Statutory KS3 Glossary
Central to this policy is setting up Communication Leaders in schools, where pupils with strong literacy skills are trained to support those that may need it. Therefore, also included is the full training to set this up.
This is a PDF of training that I put together for NQTs in my LA to give them some specific strategies on how to help manage their time and their workload. There are some 'quick wins' here, as well as some ideas on how to efficiently manage diaries using outlook and how to use meeting minutes to evidence meeting the teaching standards. I have used advice from TES forums in the training too - so I promised I would share it when it was done.
This is the primary part of the Tameside Local Authority Transition Unit that has been designed by an outstanding Literacy Lead, Year 6 teacher. She has kindly shared this with all of the primary schools in Tameside and, as an authority, we are now creating a KS3 unit that all of our secondaries will be using to baseline pupils in reading and writing. The theme is Treasure Island and both units will use this as the stimulus. By the end of this unit, pupils will create two pieces of writing and one piece of reading comprehension that will be sent to their secondary school to their English teacher.
The Key Stage 3 unit has now been uploaded and can be found here: https://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/primary-to-secondary-transition-unit-treasure-island-part-2-11071733
This is a proposal and a powerpoint used to introduce the concept of a whole school reward day to award the well behaved pupils in the school and to encourage positive behaviour.
Every year I manage one or both of these and trying to find ideas / delegate tasks is an enormous task. Therefore, I've shared these instruction pages and posters that I use in order to help others to generate ideas and delegate the tasks. Hope they&'re useful.
This is training for staff that I adapted so that a core of older children could be trained as mentors in school. Al resources are uploaded with it but, to adapt and implement, you will want to use your own school reports.
Basically, this is a powerpoint with 65 different slides on that can all be used to cut and paste into any lesson to provide a series of plenaries so that they are different all of the time.
With Ofsted's driver of making progress explicit, these little fun ways of showing progress from the start to the end of the lesson might be of use. They&'re fun and lighthearted and just another way of engaging with the progress of the individual child.
This is the first Maths lesson that I taught. In this, I set the expectations for the pupils and explain how lessons will start and what is expected of all pupils. Basically - setting the stall out.
This is a small tutorial that introduces some poems and explains why we fall silent at 11am. It is being used in all forms across the school, prior to our 11am silence.
It's National Immunisation day on the 10th of November. So, here, I&'ve put together some information on Jenner and then added a whole class quiz for the whole form to take part in. I&';m going to start doing these for form time on all special days so look out for them.
General news quiz designed for form time fun... using Mike Dean's format again. If you like it / use it, please do rate it so that more have access to it. It has a very short shelf life!
I can't take full credit for this - as I have used Mike Dean&'s template and added my own questions - However, it still took an hour, so I hope it can be used by others.
This is a selection of ways of demonstarting progress in the classroom - Tutorials that I have created for my colleagues on how to demonstrate learning throughout a lesson. There are also some more on here, as there are 15 in total.
As part of the continued development of good and outstanding training, and with Ofste'd focu on demonstrating progress, I have been sending out little tutorials with ideas on them to show progress. There are instructions / ideas on each with a screen template that can be copied and pasted into any lesson. There are quite a few of them to try, so please do have a look for them under 'Demonstrating Progress Miss R'. They&'re not much but designed to be quick ideas. This one is about getting the start of lessons right!
