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TSEC Strategies for Teachers of 5-14 Science -
Improving Science Education CPD through Practical Activities

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	Introduction				Introduction
Collaborative Techniques					Introduction
	Pair and Share				Pair and Share
	Walk about Talk about (Carousel)				Walk about, Talk about
	Talking Partners				Talking Partners
Collaboration: group working in a primary setting (Learning about Learning website) - Illustrates critical skills. The class teacher and pupils within a primary school review key features and benefits of critical skills, in particular collaborative learning (video, 59.4 Mb) Collaboration: challenge learning (Learning about Learning website) - More on collaborative working. Staff and pupils review the benefits of a whole school contextualised collaborative approach within a primary school (video, 112.4 Mb). Collaboration: joined up approach (Learning about Learning website) - Staff and pupils develop a whole school approach to challenge learning within a primary school (video, 94.9 Mb). Collaboration: fostering critical skills (Learning about Learning website) (video, 46.9 Mb). Collaboration: a critical skills approach (Learning about Learning website) (video, 39.2 Mb).
Peer and Self Assessment					Introduction
	Early years peer assessment				Early years peer assessment
	Traffic Lighting				Traffic Lighting The Whale
	Huddle				Huddle
Collaboration: promoting peer assessment (Learning about Learning website) - Focuses on critical skills. The class teacher and pupils within a secondary school review key features and benefits of critical skills, in particular collaborative learning (video, 54.7 Mb).
...from The Journey to Excellence - see also :- Active Learning in science (video, 65.5 Mb) - the promotion of active learning in a secondary school. Assessment is for Learning is an important feature of this science classroom. See also Active Learning - Learning Trail (pdf, 245 K) Learning: an active approach in a primary school (video, 37 Mb) - Teachers describe how active learning situations are set up throughout the school. Learning: an interdisciplinary approach (video, 45 Mb)- Senior management and pupils describe the benefits of using interdisciplinary approaches in learning. Promotion of active learning (video, 34 Mb) - Highlights some of the key features of excellent practice in schools including: using a wide range of learning and teaching approaches; promoting learners' willingness and confidence as seekers of new knowledge, understanding and skills; developing the ability to think, liking new knowledge to what learners already know and can do; providing opportunities to respond to 'open' questions; and collaborative learning.

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