To Learn or Not to Learn
In this programme John Bayley meets a teacher in a crisis. At Islington Green School, deputy head of English Nick Smith is teaching his Year 11 vocational students Romeo and Juliet.
But studying Shakespeare with pupils who have to take the class as a condition of their vocational GCSEs is stretching every sinew of his five years' teaching experience. Even worse, he's been timetabled in an IT suite.
John and Nick develop a range of strategies to engage the students, based around a more patient and explicit explanation of the lesson objectives. On John's advice Nick also plays to the students' particular learning styles, asking the class to represent the plot of the play either in words, music, as a rap song or in pictures. All but one favour the last of these, and as a consequence, the class is much more focused.
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Facebookdavidj2081 on 02 February 2009
I like this because in school and lessons today there can sometimes be too much of an emphasis put onto making lessons p ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 28 April 2006
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good idea2 February 2009 - 01:15I like this because in school and lessons today there can sometimes be too much of an emphasis put onto making lessons pacey! I still think that pace is massively important but sometimes allowing children to take their time to understand and reach the objective is the best way!!!
Thanks for this.
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