By Jaya Carrier
I hope everyone has had a great week so far. This week, I’ve been thinking about Do Now activities, and will be doing my Wednesday briefing on this theme. I was interested in coming across some work by Petty in his book Evidence-Based Teaching: A practical approach which puts forward an evidence-informed strategy for the beginning of lessons. Objectives:
To provide a practical model for the beginning of lessons that uses evidence-informed ideas. Summary: Building on the work of Hattie (2008), Petty’s model proposes three steps to begin lessons which he claims has a significant effect on student learning:
- Show a visual representation of the learning that will take place during the the lesson
- Set learning intentions that are not outcome-based but focus on what will be learned
- Use questioning to recall prior learning
Some reflection questions arising from this that might be helpful to consider are:
- How am I starting my lessons? How effective are they? How do I know?
- What do visual representations of learning that will take place actually look like?
- What do I think about Petty’s model?
