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Identifying Digital Video Clips of Good Pedagogic Practice

6. The pedagogy of newly-qualified English teachers

Macbeth in the Classroom 1

Teaching Talking 1

 

Macbeth in the Classroom 2

Teaching Talking 2

This pair of programmes presents the practice of two English teachers working in the same school in East London. Both Sangeeta and Kate are in their first term of their NQT year.

Each programme focuses attention on a single key stage 3 lesson as a way of opening up issues relating to:

  • ways of planning for and managing oral activities;
  • the place(s) of oral work within the English curriculum;
  • improvisation and role play as tools for exploring literary texts;
  • collaborative group talk and its contribution to learning;
  • ways of sharing assessment criteria.

In each programme, episodes from the lesson are interspersed with (and framed by) dialogue between the NQT and a mentor/observer. The teacher and the mentor are seen watching and discussing footage of the lesson. What is suggested by this is, simultaneously, the contribution that particular kinds of observation might make to the teacher’s professional development and also the opportunities for sharply-focused dialogue about practice that are provided by the use of digital video footage.

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Contents

  1. Why use digital video footage?
    1 It provides a window on other classrooms
    2 It enables us to review what happens in the classroom
    3 It brings a multimodal lens to the analysis of teaching and learning
    4 It encourages discussion about the criteria used to interpret and to judge
    5 It can focus attention on the importance of other forms of evidence, other kinds of knowledge
  2. How to use digital video footage
    1 A little goes a long way
    2 A clear focus for the observation
    3 What don’t we know? What can’t we see?
    4 What issues does this raise for your practice?
  3. Teachers TV
    1 Messy Art at KS2 provides opportunities to explore
    2 Gifted and Talented – History – Causal Reasoning: WW1
    3 Changing Teachers - Finland Comes to England – Secondary
    4 KS3/4 Drama – Engaging with a Difficult Text – Dr Faustus
  4. Literacy in the primary classroom
    1 Reading for understanding and enjoyment
     2 A shared text as the stimulus for varied activities over time
    3 The power of retelling
    4 Shared close reading of text and images
    5 Reading as performance
    6 A little at a time – and time to talk
    7 Inhabiting a role, inhabiting the text
    8 Shared writing
  5. The pedagogy of an experienced secondary English teacher
    1 Quick run through to get the story
    2 Quotes – speaking, knowing and owning the lines
     3 Quotes: attribution to characters
    4 Acting out the play
    5 Pairs of opposites: scanning with a purpose: revisiting the same scene with specific focus
    6 Class: speaking and reading text
    7 Viewing the RSC Macbeth
  6. The pedagogy of newly-qualified English teachers
  7. Do It Yourself
  8. Students are doing it for themselves
  9. Reference and further reading
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