Please find below some additional resources that are referenced in the Masterclass Series, should you wish to delve briefly into. These are optional and not a requirement of the course.
1. Helpful Resources for Longer Cadence Reviews
Oak National Academy
The Oak National Academy is an independent public body in the UK who aim to support teachers to improve student outcomes and close the achievement gap, ensuring students have access to high-quality curriculum.
Their teacher resources consist of downloadable slide decks of lessons, worksheets and quizzes, for many topics in a range of learning areas.
https://www.thenational.academy/teachers
Diagnostic Questions
Diagnostic questions contains examples of questions across different learning areas that can support teachers to:
- Check for understanding using evidence from every student in the class.
- Diagnose and probe any potential misconceptions.
Please note, the terminology used in the UK is ‘Diagnostic Questioning’. Please do not be confused by this. What they are referring to are questions or tasks that ‘diagnose’ students’ understanding or misconceptions during the learning. This is different from the Australian use of the term ‘diagnostic’ which refers to tasks you give to students before teaching begins. This page is definitely talking about tasks you give to students to do while you are teaching to check for understanding; hinge-point questions.
https://diagnosticquestions.com
Signing up is free. Please follow the directions below on how to sign up.
Metacognition – http://pdf.retrievalpractice.org/MetacognitionGuide.pdf and https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/education-for-a-changing-world/thinking-skills/metacognition
Interleaving – https://pdf.retrievalpractice.org/InterleavingGuide.pdf
2. Cognitive Science Resources
You may also like to access some of the practice guides written by cognitive scientists referenced in Practical Session 4. They can be found on the Retrieval Practice website.
3. Stay up to date with High-Impact Instruction
As a way to stay up to date with high-impact instructional practices, we have pulled together the attached list of inspirational researchers and teachers who you may want to follow. They include a range of accounts on social media platforms, publications, blogs and podcasts – hopefully you’ll find some insightful and useful information from these sources.
