Interesting piece about when you should use ‘hands up’ in the classroom. We’re right behind this; already doing what they describe. It ensures that many and different children are expected to answer, it promotes children’s discussions and as Professor Wiliam says, it gets some children surprised that the quiet ones (who don’t like putting their hands up) do know quite a bit! Yes, we use lolly pop sticks in class too! 🙂
Being a radio player, there’s only 29 days to listen to it from today, or…
…I could download it and insert above…!
Ignore the 00:00 count; it does play (4 mins).
Love that you have shared this thank you – hope all parents listen to it. It might be nice if teachers inform the parents how they deal with these sorts of things in the class – every class will have ‘approproriate’ methods for different ages and parents should know this just as much as the kids do when they ‘shuffle up’. Can we have a parents crib sheet of what sorts of things are different (eg how reading changes), and what to expect at significant stages of school like (inc also pls what is actually covered in each ‘age appropropriate’ sex ed sessions !).
Yes I thought it quite important… and we’re quite into Dylan Wiliam’s work here.
The Year-Ahead meetings that will be a chance to find out about differences in class. We do overviews for each term which will hopefully cover your thoughts about crib sheets.
The Sex (and relationships) Policy was reviewed recently so I’ll get that printed for you once I edit it!
Thanks for the reply.