Tanith Ludlam The Holgate Academy T.Ludlam@holgate-ac.uk / @ tanithludlam

1. How to survive your NQT year: practical tips and advice Tanith Ludlam The Holgate Academy T.Ludlam@holgate-ac.org.uk / @tanithludlam

2. How to survive your NQT year: practical tips and advice • Effective starters • Encouraging independence • Literacy • GCSE • Showing progress in a lesson Not all ideas are my own – many taken from Twitter

3. 1. Engaging Starters Why? • Sets a routine • Allows you to take register/follow up with students • Provide a ‘hook’ How? • They should be quick and simple • Require no or little explanation • Review or links to learning in the lesson

4. 1. Engaging Starters Small section of the ‘deeply divided Brazil Slums’ photograph Poor section shown

5. Full photo revealed (rich and poor)

6. Write a list of differences between the favelas and the apartments Full photo revealed (rich and poor) What would a resident of the apartments think about living next to a favela? What would a resident of the favela think about living next to the apartments?

8. 1. Engaging Starters

9. 1. Engaging Starters

10. 1. Engaging Starters

11. 1. Engaging Starters

12. 2. Encouraging independence Why: Helps prepare students for GCSE/A-Level Support for lower ability and more able How: Help desk/ inspiration station that includes: • Help sheets • Challenge cards • Laminated resources specific for different years, groups and topics

14. 2. Encouraging independence

15. 3. Literacy Why: Key area in all subjects and across all schools Poor or low literacy can impact confidence Impact in exam practice How: Quick activities that can be integrated into any lesson Simple and easy to follow

16. 3. Literacy – Understanding key words

17. 3. Literacy – Understanding key words

18. 3. Literacy – Understanding articles, news stories etc.

19. 3. Literacy – Correcting Literacy

20. 3. Literacy – Correcting Literacy

21. 3. Literacy – Encouraging students to use more key geographical words

22. 3. Literacy – Encouraging students to use more key geographical words

23. 4. GCSE Why: Students lack confidence in answering exam questions How: Question starters completed once a week Builds up confidence when facing exam questions Opportunity for peer assessment

24. 4. GCSE

25. 4. GCSE

26. 5. Showing Progress (across one lesson) Why: Key focus in any observation Helps students to see what they have learnt How: Activities that can be used at any point in the lesson Simple and easy to follow If you use lesson outcomes, make sure the activity links to them

27. 5. Showing Progress (across one lesson)

28. 5. Showing Progress (across one lesson)

30. 5. Showing Progress (across one lesson)

31. 5. Showing Progress (across one lesson)

32. 5. Showing Progress (across one lesson)

33. How to survive your NQT year: practical tips and advice • Effective starters • Encouraging independence • Literacy • GCSE • Showing progress in a lesson Any questions?

34. How to survive your NQT year: practical tips and advice What one bit of advice would you give to another NQT/PGCE student? Write your advice on a post-it note and come and stick it up at the front I will collate the responses and share

35. How to survive your NQT year: practical tips and advice Tanith Ludlam The Holgate Academy T.Ludlam@holgate-ac.org.uk / @tanithludlam

36. Sizzling question… Hot questions… Cool questions… How? (does this link to our topic of development in Kenya?) What? (is this photo showing?) Where? (was this photo taken?) Why? (is the flower trade important for Kenya?) When? (was this photo taken?) Who? (is affected?)