'It's Good to Talk' April 2018

Please answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, question 5 if the class is set or streamed and as many questions from 7-15 as you wish.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. School

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* 3. I did this activity with

Year 10

Year 11

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* 4. This class is

Mixed Ability

Set

Streamed

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* 5. If set or streamed

High

Middle

Low

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* 6. Rate the activity 1 to 10 in terms of how successful you thought it was

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5

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10

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* 7. Your initial observations on how it went

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* 8. How this activity differs from other approaches you have used in the past to teach the anthology, or poetry more generally

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* 9. What you think the students learned

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* 10. What it offered in terms of preparing students for the demands of the GCSE exam

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* 11. How the students responded to greater freedom and responsibility in the task

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* 12. What role you performed in shaping the activity and pushing the students’ thinking forward

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* 13. The significance of your decisions about how to group pupils

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* 14. Whether you adapted the activity in any way

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* 15. Whether you would do something similar again. If so why? If not, why not?