Matching materials with learners Noreen Caplen-Spence What is the function of a bridge? Think of your favourite bridge?

Matching materials with learners Setting the scene Some ideas for adapting materials with examples Check list Reflection and evaluation

Matching materials with learners

Matching materials with learners

Matching materials with learners Understand the aim of their learning Where they are in relation to this aim How they can achieve the aim or close the gap in their knowledge Assessment for Learning (AFL)

Matching materials with learners People Context Materials The importance of learners asking questions. How and why being the most difficult questions to answer. Known to unkonwn

Mixed Ability Read 10% List, define explain, describe……. Hear 20% See 30% Apply and demonstrate………. See & hear 50% Analyse, evaluate, create…… Say & write 70% Do 90% Based on Edgar Dale cone of experience

Matching materials with learners Tip of the iceberg we only see what people do…how do we get learners to be aware of what they think and feel

Matching materials with learners Cosmopolitan Exciting Cutting-edge Fun Old-fashioned Courtesy Busy streets Historic sight

Matching materials with learners

Matching materials with learners Look at 2 paintings Venn diagram Vocabulary: fog, smog

Matching Materials with learners

Matching materials with learners Write a title for each painting

Matching materials with learners Claude Monet Sun breaking through the Fog 1904 (right) London smog 1900 (left)

Autobiography in 5 chapters I walk down the street There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I fall in I am lost It is not my fault It takes forever to find a way out

Autobiography in 5 chapters I walk down the street There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I pretend I do not see it I fall in again I cannot believe I am in the same place But it is not my fault It still takes a long time to get out.

Autobiography in 5 chapters I walk down the street There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I see it, I still fall in It is a habit My eyes are open, I know where I am It is my fault, I get out immediately

Autobiography in 5 chapters I walk down the street There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I walk ….…it

Autobiography in 5 chapters I walk down ………………….. Adapted from a poem by Portia Nelson 1985

Matching materials with learners Individual Team/pair Group

Matching materials with learners Sharing/ collaborating (think/pair, group/share)

Matching materials with learners Transferable skills Graphic organisers

Matching materials with learners Abstract as well as concrete examples

Matching materials with learners Where does this lesson fit into: the larger plan? real life? other subjects? other topics?

Matching materials with learners Questions? Do and experience leads to remembering understanding and to knowledge. Question to be asked. What do we want them to know, experience and be able to do at the end of the lesson

Matching materials with learners Creativity

Matching materials with learners Appropriate self and peer assessment tools 10.25

Matching materials with learners At the end of the lesson will most feel capable, likeable and significant? 10.25

Matching materials with learners Time to reflect and consolidate 3…2..1. 3 things I remember 2 ideas I could adapt 1 question I have

Matching materials with learners Communication Connection Cognition 10.25

Matching materials with learners What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot Four Quartets, Little Gidding This is another beginning, what will you do with it?

Where will you start? Where will you start?