All downloads in this section are provided by Geoff Petty.

Active Learning

These downloads are about active learning.

Active Learning Works (Word)
Constructivism (Word)
Formative Teaching Methods (Word)
25 ways for Teaching Without Talking (Word)
Tests and Quizzes (Word)
Right Brain, Visual, and Kinesthetic Teaching Strategies (Word)
Lesson Structure and the PAR Model (Word)
Direct Instruction (Word)

Teaching Skills

These downloads are about teaching skills as well as content.

Teaching Generic Skills (Word)
Gibbs Exercise Four reading (Word)
Gibbs Exercise Five (Word)
How to teach intelligence – Feuerstein (Word)
Effective Study Skills (Word)
Dweck’s Theory of Motivation (Word)

Effective Feedback

These downloads are about effective feedback for learners.

Black and Wiliam (Word)
Formative Teaching Methods (Word)
Effective Reinforcement for Motivation (Word)

Self-assessing Your Own Teaching

These downloads are to you help you self-assess your own teaching.

Lesson Observation (Word)
Learning Journal (Word)
Teacher Style Student Questions (Word)
Teacher’s Style Question (Word)

Learning And Teaching

These are to help managers improve learning and teaching.

16 ways for managers to improve the teaching of their teaching teams (Word)
Active Scheme of Work (Word)
Supported Experiments (Word)
Direct Instruction (Word)
Making it happen (Word)
Making it happen 1: Why do we need five steps? (Word)
Making it happen 2: Five steps to better teaching (Word)
Making it happen 3: Some Effective Training Designs (Word)
Helping Students with their Writing (Word)
Planning Clock (Word)

Differentiation

These downloads are for trainers to lead sessions on Differentiation.

The first download has now been adopted by the DfE Standards Unit (Business Education materials). You may have a copy in your college, it will work for any curriculum area.

Two Methods – Which teaching methods differentiate best? (Word)
Differentiation – What and How? (Word)
Differentiation – How to do it? (Word)
Decisions-Decisions – A generic game for differentiation (Word)
Bloom’s Taxonomy and Task Design (Word)
Helping Students with their Writing (Word)
Planning Clock (Word)
Making it happen (Word)
Making it happen 1: Why do we need five steps? (Word)
Making it happen 2: Five steps to better teaching (Word)
Making it happen 3: Some Effective Training Designs (Word)

Supported Experiments

These downloads are to help you do Supported Experiments.

Generic Skills (Word)
Teaching Generic Skills (Word)
Teacher Style Student Questions (Word)
Teacher’s Style Question (Word)
Right brain left brain (Word)
Dweck’s Theory of Motivation (Word)
Improving Teaching with Action Research (Word)
Assessment Proformas (Word)
Tests and Quizzes (Word)
Supported Experiments (Word)
Effective Reinforcement for Motivation (Word)
Equal Opportunities (Word)

FSAVC Mis-selling

Hundreds of thousands of teachers, including school admin staff, were advised to invest extra contributions outside the main pension scheme, and into an arrangement run by insurance companies.

For a number of reasons, this was very bad advice, and resulted in huge loses for those with FSAVCs.