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Tom Sherrington

Tips for Teachers

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How to Give Meaningful Verbal Responses

I saw a lesson just literally yesterday where there was a slide I was talking about measurement is in functional skills and at FE College. A teacher had written on the board firstly secondly and finally and she just pointed at that so when she said okay Jessica let's have it here yours what were you coming up with? Tom, how long do you reckon this should take in lessons  is this a 10 minute thing a two minute thing or does it need to be as short as five minutes for students to get through some of these questions which will help them understand their subject matter better. What are your second tip for us today my second tip is to provide explicit scaffolds for verbal responses which means

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