3. Differentiated group work: an example...
• Each student has an allocated (differentiated) role, to
ensure maximum engagement and participation.
• Each group deals with different material, could be
differentiated according to ability/learning
style/behavioural needs.
Task: analysing a section of a text for English
Literature
Student 1: the summariser
Student 2: the analyst
Student 3: the reviewer/interpreter
Student 4: the contextualiser
All linked to a
specific
assessment
objective. Differing
roles/instructions
for each student.
4. Unlocking potential with language (Jim Smith’s
The Lazy Teacher’s Handbook: developing an
independent learning structure)
• ‘What have you forgotten to do?’
• ‘If you were not stuck, what would you do?’
• ‘Try something different...’
• ‘If I gave you a million pounds to be unstuck,
what would you do?’
• ‘What could you do to help yourself?’
5. Scaffolding
Scaffolding is as
important at Key
Stage 5 as in other
years.
Don’t assume that
just because
students are
studying at A Level
they are all of an
equal ability.
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10. Teacher Modelling
Always model a task before asking/when
asking students to complete a similar
task.
By limiting failure in this way - through
leading by example - students will be
more comfortable with the task and in
turn, more confident in their ability.
12. Remember to ...
• Begin with a topic sentence.
• Embed quotations into sentences in a way
that still allows them to make
grammatical sense.
• Lead into a quotation with terminology
and then pull the quotation apart further
through close analysis, applying (where
possible) additional terminology.
13. Example Paragraph
This extract from the novel ‘Devil May
Care’ supports a number of gender
stereotypes, most notably that men are
strong, energetic and violent with an
attraction to fast cars. The foregrounding
of the plosive monosyllabic “Bond”
emphasises his power and importance,
adding to his ‘action man’ status. This is
enhanced by a lexical set of movement
created by the dynamic verbs “hit”,
“swerved”, “kicked” and “wrenched”
which show Bond to be full of energy. In
