learning objectives

Learning objectives and why we need ’em

2020-02-12T21:55:33+00:00February 18th, 2012|learning|

I remember the first time I saw a learning objective being used in a lesson. My school had just been placed into Special Measures and things were looking grim. I'd only joined the school a few months previously and was wondering how to get out. Then, at an INSET event organised to rally the troops I watched a video of David Gale (a maths teacher who tweets as @reflectivemaths) writing the learning objective on his white board, questioning the class about what they might learn and then getting them to learn it. The scales fell from my eyes. That's what I [...]

50 ways to lead your lesson

2013-07-20T12:33:38+01:00October 9th, 2011|English, learning|

The problem is all inside your head", she said to meThe answer is easy if you take it logicallyI'd like to help you in your struggle to be freeThere must be fifty ways to lead your lesson...Paul Simon Last week the inimitable Kristian Still challenged the good people of Twitter to amass 50 different ways to introduce learning objectives. Well, after much cajoling and exhortation from Mr Still we managed it! 40 Ways to_introduce_learning_objectives_ from David Didau I thought it might make an interesting experiment to see how well they each work. I reckon I can cover most of them before [...]

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