Saturday 29 October 2011

What Works with Boys (notes based on my reading)

  1. you decide who sits where (challenge the culture)

  2. variety in each lesson and over the course

  3. increased access to ICT and media work

  4. incorporating oral and drama work

  5. explaining the point of the lesson at the beginning

  6. plenaries / reflection

  7. small steps

  8. short-term achievable goals

  9. clear guidelines to improve work

  10. clear instructions at each stage

  11. varying groups for different tasks

  12. meta-cognition – BLP learning muscles

  13. topics wild not tame

  14. let them know you are on their case”

  15. challenge

  16. competition


Literacy Specific


  1. real purpose and audience for writing

  2. talk it through before writing

  3. teach planning, extended writing, note-taking, research

  4. help in structuring writing – scaffolding, modelling, writing frames

  5. emphasise presentation and handwriting

  6. clear use of first drafts and “neat” final drafts

  7. relevance and variety of texts

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