The classroom experiment.

Training?? What training do they need to use systems that are already used in primary that the head of year 7 in Hertswood already knew about when she spent time at Monksmead last year!!!

And they are not using them in year 7 yet!
 
I thought they started filming at the start of the academic year. They seemed like nice children, but I am sure they picked the kids they used very carefully.

Do they need a music teacher?
 
Anyone watching this? Some interesting ideas but that shouty maths teacher is a nightmare.

I found maths difficult enough without a squealing teacher complicating things and making me switch off.
 
Yes I agree she is terrible.

She's setting them up for a fail with the devices.

This Professor Dylan Wiliam has some good ideas.
 
Yes. Poor parents. Most don't have a clue what goes on in our bog standard schools. I have to say, what I have seen is pretty normal.
 
How you are and how you behave as a teacher can influence a class big time. She made me anxious and I wasn't even in the class.
 
It'll be interesting to see what her techniques are like at the end of the programme. Good for her if she takes the criticism on board. The children are a good resource for feedback.

Nice children.
 
...and then you are left with bottom sets...which are usually dumping grounds for the badly behaved to. I have worked both, and I think mixed ability is best for the majority.
 
I have to say, some of the ideas are good...but as a teacher, the best ones are the ones which take as little time as possible to organize...and not act as a distraction to the little loves.
 
I forgot this was on! This is filmed at my daughters school. She wasnt there when it was filmed she only started in September, but some of this kids were at primary with her last year!
 
I like Sid. I think he should be appointed to senior management. :D He would do better than most of the muppets I have had the misfortune to work with.
 
My first reaction watching this was the class size. 24? Oh I wish! Should have had a standard class size, which for me is never below 30.
Mixed ability is a bad idea, we've just moved to entirely mixed ability for KS3, and the brightest suffer the most in that system.
I like the coloured cup idea, and the whiteboards are used already in our school.
The maths teacher needs support to improve, her manner with the children is too fast, she's assuming they understand and moves on too quick. I was cringing at her style of teaching.
The exercise in the morning is a nice idea but totally unworkable for a whole school.
Some of the questioning technique that the teachers used needs looking at, majority are asking closed questioning, which is recognised as being negative and confrontational. They need to adopt a better form of open questioning before they introduce all the gimmicks. The lolly sticks are an interesting way of opening up the class more, but I would have thought a good teacher already does that.
Was this Dylan an ex teacher himself? We often find that those who come in to consult on teaching methods are usually non teachers, which for a lot of staff, turns them off immediately.

Will be interested to see how this pans out next time.
 
The problem, as I see it, is every feeder primary, and every class in said secondary don't use the same methods, the children get confused. Maybe that is why it isn't being used in year 7 yet.
 
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