This is the first of several themed recordings from the webinar “Special Measures to Top-500 with Cooperative Learning.”
Webinar Summary Part #1; Special Measures to Top-500
This is the first of several themed recordings from the webinar "Special Measures to Top-500 with Cooperative Learning."
Diamonds in the Rough; video & slides from Monday’s presentation
Among the 85 delegates who missed the first Tea Party due to Storm Doris, but remain curious about the new VNET/NB2B Cooperative Learning programme Diamonds in the Rough? This six-minute video edit summarises my presentation at Mattishall. Best enjoyed with tea. The full slideshow is also available for viewing at werdelin.co.uk/VNET.html. The full slideshow is available for viewing... Continue Reading →
EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit; a Cooperative Learning gloss
Commenting on the famous Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit, this article posits the structural approach as the most effective form of collaborative learning, bar none. The Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit provides guidance for schools on how to best use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Collaborative strategies top the list... Continue Reading →
New Video: Vice Principal, 10 weeks into the Skills & Mastery programme
In this short video, Ben Rogers, Vice Principal, discusses Norwich Primary Academy's experience with Skills & Mastery. Norwich Primary Academy, situated in one of the most socially challenged areas of the city, is now using Cooperative Learning to develop key human skills; resilience, mental toughness, sense of duty, service to others - without compromising academic performance.... Continue Reading →
Cooperative Learning; a model lesson across all subjects
Stalham Academy is an early adopter of Cooperative Learning, and was the first to purchase the best-selling Skills & Mastery course. In this video, Andrew Howard presents a model lesson - in one of the first examples where Cooperative Learning is used to not only inform parents, but to secure their full engagement. Given their stunning results,... Continue Reading →
Norwich Primary Academy
I have been doing a great deal of coaching these past weeks before half term. Following sessions with a number of teachers at Norwich Primary Academy, Ms Horne, teacher in Year 3, kindly offered to describe some of her experiences after the first 2 hour block of a tailored Skills & Mastery session. When working... Continue Reading →
New head, fresh eyes; a critical outsider’s look at Cooperative Learning
At the start of this term, Mr Glenn Russell was appointed permanent head of Stalham Academy by Rightforsuccess Trust. In the week before summer holidays, Mr Russell gave a critical and qualified appraisal of Cooperative Learning at Stalham Academy. Please scroll to bottom of page to see a list of one-minute extracts. Since the school converted to academy status... Continue Reading →
Enquiry & Immersion; Thank you too!
We have successfully concluded the pilot of the "Enquiry & Immersion" field trips for primary and are very grateful to have received this pupil feedback. . On Wednesday and Thursday of Islam Awareness Week 100+ Year 6 pupils from our local Avenue Junior School visited Ihsan Mosque in Norwich to participate in the new school visits programme.... Continue Reading →
Why Cooperative Learning? What it will do for you and what you don’t need to do…
This video deals with some of the knee-jerk reactions to "student-centred learning" as being unmanageable, ineffective and demanding for teachers. (From the introduction to “Islam in RE: Religious Literacy & Controversy through Enquiry” 17 March 2014 in Norwich). . Open this video in new window . Structural Cooperative Learning consists of students in small hand-picked teams or... Continue Reading →
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