Daily Review is a short review of learning at the beginning of each lesson, which creates a highly motivating environment with a high success rate that still challenges students. We use the Daily Review components (retrieve-apply-reteach) flexibly, with components removed when students demonstrate fluency.

Step 1: Prepare and Practise

Begin by downloading any resources that you think may be relevant to you as you start to create or refine Daily Reviews for your focus class. When using Daily Reviews regularly, you will be adding new content to your Daily Reviews (perhaps from content that you introduced in the previous lesson, last week, or more than a month ago) and will also have removed content (as your students have mastered it).

Write a full length Daily Review (slides or plan) comprising 3-6 pieces of content. This is for the Daily Review part of the lesson you will film, using the Daily Review poster and templates (below) as guidance.

 

If using Teach Well’s Daily Review Slides template:

1. Slide 2 of the template includes a table outlining the Daily Review components used for each piece of content. We suggest you update this table and keep it in your Daily Review PowerPoints to assist with structure and also guide us when we are looking at your slides during the coaching film cycle.
2. Slide 10 provides cue boxes you may wish to include on each slide to provide you with prompts as you deliver your Daily Review.
3. You may, but certainly don’t need to, include your instructional language in the notes (e.g. the full participation tactics you would use, elaborative questions you might ask).

 

Please upload your Daily Review slides or plan under ‘3.2 Submit your Daily Review Slides or Plan’.

 

Step 2: Film and Upload

You are required to film 5-10 minutes of footage of your prepared Daily Review, which demonstrates your use of full participation tactics and checking for understanding, for coaching feedback.

Video requirements
Before you film, ensure that:

1. You can get the footage off your device, for submission.
2. Choose 720p (or lower) film quality as this will produce a file that is not too large. Adjust film quality in the settings of the device as required.
3. Direct the camera at where you primarily stand and at the whiteboard/screen – we don’t need to be able to read the screen, but we do need to see what the students see.
4. Limit the movement of the camera.
5. Most of the time, the footage should record you talking and the student responses, (an occasional quiet voice/answer is ok).
6. Students are unidentifiable in the footage (not all students need to be in shot) – it works well if you place the camera somewhere towards the middle/rear of the room and the footage includes backs of student heads.
7. If students are identifiable in your footage, ensure you have permission for them to be filmed.
8. 1x 5-10 mins footage only. If you film an extended section of your lesson/review, please trim it to the 5-10 mins that you watched to complete your self-reflection.

Please note, we do not have the capacity to review any more than 5-10 minutes of video footage.

Please upload your Video Footage under ‘3.2 Submit your Daily Review footage’.

 

Step 3: Reflect

Watch your video and complete the Self-Reflection Template (provided below). This will be uploaded under ‘3.2 Submit your Daily Review Self-reflection’.