Quality First Teaching in Practice

  • Lead a truly inclusive classroom where:
    • everybody is learning
    • everybody is finding it challenging
    • everybody has an opportunity to learn
  • Clarify what Quality First Teaching actually looks like
  • Take away strategies to turn Quality First Teaching into practice
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The characteristics of Quality First Teaching (QFT)

  • The latest research into truly inclusive classroom practice

  • Debunk myths around differentiation

  • The power of QFT with disadvantaged pupils

 

How to contextualise Quality First Teaching-

 High expectations: keep pupils in the struggle zone

  • Ideas for differentiation without the worksheets

 

Language aware: be mindful of how you engage with pupils

  • Techniques for positive self-verbalisation

 

Know the level of need: addresses different levels of prior learning

  • Use ‘spot files’ to monitor Student Progress Over Time

 

Feedback: make it reactive and proactive

  • Tools to demonstrate improvement ,and be developmental and formative

 

Meta cognition: make it explicit, transferable and valued

  • How to model the strategies being taught

 

Peer tutoring: use it as an explicit teaching support

  • Top tips for utilising seating plans, tutor groups and academic mentoring

 

Reading comprehension strategies: apply in tandem to teaching

  • Strategies for meeting a whole school literacy agenda

 

Homework: ensure it supports attainment

  • Tools to make it well planned, well timetable

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Teaching & Learning
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Key Stage

Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5