Teaching and Learning Nuggets
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What are they?
Teaching Nuggets are shared with you to make the great job you do even easier. They can help you to save time and enrich your teaching so that you and your students can make more progress.
Extension ideas
Sports
- Become an expert and check on students’ performance/work.
- Act as a coach or buddy for students who need more support.
- complete a harder task i.e. add a defender to a practice to make it more like the game.
- Explain the type of fitness training that would be most useful for a sport and why.
- create a specific practice for the class to improve a specific skill/tactic.
ICT
- create a user guide for a specific audience which explains to a user what you have done. i.e. after learning <certain skills>in computing
- Attempt to break a user’s programming code (the partner next to them) by inserting / deleting a key word. Allow the partner to try and locate the error, explain why the error occurred and fix the mistake.
- Create your own project using <certain skills> you have learned, your project file will not be seen but the evidence you product will be. Consider the documentation of your project and how clear you can show your evidence.
Generic
- Research areas outside the scope of an exam question and to provide additional information. They should then learn key words/topics and be able to understand how this relates to the question. Often needs websites or suitable resources where students cannot get lost in technical terms they do not understand
- Answer additional questions where it takes into context society / real life. Perhaps relating their work to a news article. For example - the next stage of computing - quantum computing - a very difficult concept but not impossible to understand and a lot of news generated when they make improvements or even in films. - Often needs to be topics which can be related to real life and the students understand
- Plan/Design before making - Often students find it easy to make a product, receive feedback and make improvements. Getting the students to plan, make improvements based on the plan then making the product and sticking to a plan can be quite challenging.
- Relate what they are learning to previous work, where questioning goes off at a tangent but re-embers information they have learned over the course, as a result the student should document and be forced to re-embed this information
- Present information for specific audiences then asking them to do the same work but for a different audience. The change us subtle but requires thought as to how they are going to do it.
- Write a tweet, 150 characters, as many keywords as they can. Great way to encourage the art of summary. Its harder than it looks.
- Use Blooms’ to set more challenging questions or extension tasks – simple!!
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