A combined description of last weeks event at University of East Anglia and Norwich High School for Girls Stage 4: Create cross-class teams – continued from previous post. See overview of NHSG lesson plan here. After having each read the materials and given an oral presentations summarizing their knowledge to their teammates, we now want to distribute all this knowledge across the class…. Continue Reading →
A combined description of last weeks event at University of East Anglia and Norwich High School for Girls Stage 3: Present oral summary in teams – continued from previous post. Due to the overlap between these two superficially very different events (one aimed at experienced teachers, the other at Year 10 students, one about the Syrian crisis, the other… Continue Reading →
(continued from a previous post, this is a detailing of a 60-minute workshop presented at Norwich High School for Girls June 9, 2014). Stage 2: Read materials, take notes, prepare oral summary Time: 5 minutes, individual reading of materials. Level: Theme-based 3-4 member teams. After using ladders to slice up “best friends” in order to sit… Continue Reading →
(continued from previous post this is a detailing of a 60-minute workshop presented at Norwich High School for Girls June 9, 2014). Stage 1: Activating schemata, testing assumptions Time: 10 minutes Level: multiple pairs CLIP: Ladders After making students aware that this workshop would simulates some of the interdependence, individual accountability and the pressure they would be… Continue Reading →
Yesterday, June 9, we successfully presented Norwich High School for Girls with a series of four tailored 60 minute workshops. The aim was to allow students to collaboratively construct a mental framework to help get the most out of the following two-week Connected Curriculum theme “Life in the Global Village” culminating in a staged UN session to resolve the… Continue Reading →
Special offer: I am very pleased to announce that private sponsors of the Islam Awareness Week 2015 programme at Ihsan Mosque has made it possible to make “Islam in RE: Religious Literacy & Controversy Through Enquiry” available to teachers at only £75. . You school saves £125 on this £200 course, recently presented as a part of the PGCE students programme at the… Continue Reading →
“The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour,” goes a saying in pop psychology. If this is true, things are well and truly looking good for Cooperative Learning in the coming academic year. This article outlines some of my upcoming projects, including SSIF spin-offs, the necessity of separating “Cooperative Learning” from “group work,” a… Continue Reading →
On 4 January the fully developed 21st century British Muslim programme was presented to the two first adopters of 2016, as well as external delegates from the AMS South Hub INSET, forty seats in all. 21st century British Muslim is an 11-hour course developed over 18 months to meet the highly specialised needs of Muslim faith schools in… Continue Reading →
Without her mentioning Cooperative Learning once, Ms Jessica Brosnan, of the Teacher Development Trust, has unwittingly written a better article on why Cooperative Learning should be adopted as a whole school ethos than I could. Ms Brosnan’s original text is italicised. (…) Many school leaders struggle to create a CPD programme that is relevant and engaging for all… Continue Reading →
A number of attendees at “Healing Fractures II – Beyond Birmingham?” have requested links to some of the materials used in the investigative unit. This unit allowed a collaborative yet personal approach to the wide scope of Trojan Horse fall-out. Following the mental and emotional lead-in using open questions and imagery discussed in the previous Healing Fractures II… Continue Reading →
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