• Whilst teaching, focus on offering feedback to children on the lesson’s success criteria. In addition, ask the children to self-review their progress against the success criteria.
• The use of circle time and Philosophy for Children model to reflect on learning and problem resolution
• Focus behaviour management around mutual respect and a high focus on agreed values, children’s rights and responsibilities
• Focus within the term on sharing the represented cultures, tolerating others and differences
• Embedding the UNESCO Rights Respecting culture into the curriculum
• Encouraging children’s curiosity through lesson planning
• Play-based activities centred around problem-solving and independence
• Planning learning that has a creative focus
• Responding to mistakes as a good opportunity for further learning
• Promotion of a can-do ethos
• Differentiating the curriculum with special high challenges that stretch children’s skills
• Awarding numerous responsibilities to children
• Encouraging children to take risks
• Share work and learning with other classes
• Encouraging children to choose own learning tasks
• The use of reward systems, including praise, rewards, stickers etc
• Focus of support from the SLT
• Using mini-plenaries to offer feedback and encourage learning from our mistakes
• Encouraging children to offer peer feedback
• Using older children as role models
Our thanks to the teachers in the network for this input
