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Mixed Ability : Part 1 Noreen Caplen-Spence. Mixed Ability. Mixed ability What does it mean in your context? Listening and speaking activity: A & B. Mixed Ability. What strategies did you use to remember?. Mixed Ability. Is this a mixed ability gathering?. Mixed Ability.
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Mixed Ability • Mixed ability • What does it mean in your context? • Listening and speaking activity: A & B
Mixed Ability • What strategies did you use to remember?
Mixed Ability Is this a mixed ability gathering?
Mixed Ability • Name 3 advantages of being here together. • In groups
Mixed Ability • What is a mixed ability class? • In groups of 5- 8 write a definition.
Mixed Ability What can be observed and experienced in a class where mixed ability teaching takes place? • 3 minutes to think
Mixed Ability What can be observed and experienced in a class where mixed ability teaching takes place? • In groups 10 minutes to write as much as you can
Mixed Ability • Feedback; whole group • When you hear something you have written tick it so that it is not repeated.
Mixed Ability • 5 principles and ideas for practical application
Principle Set the context Practice Mixed Ability
Principle Set the context Practice Practical Visual clues Scaffold structures AFL Mixed Ability
Principle Interaction Practice Mixed Ability
Principle Interaction Practice Discussion Q & A Graphic organisers Collaborative groups AFL Mixed Ability
Principle Signpost concept/ structure Practice Mixed Ability
Principle Signpost concept/ structure Practice Headings Graphic organisers Restructure AFL Mixed Ability
Principle Previous knowledge and experience Practice Mixed Ability
Principle Previous knowledge and experience Practice From known to unknown Quiz Group activities Brainstorm – Mind map Restructure info from words to graphic and vice versa Personalise Cross curricular links AFL Mixed Ability
Principle Language Modelling Practice Mixed Ability
Principle Language Modelling Practice Stem sentences Writing frames Lists Tables Questionnaires Presentations AFL Mixed Ability
Mixed Ability • What can be seen and felt
Mixed Ability Mixed Ability Class
Matching materials with learners Questions?
Mixed Ability Communication Connection Cognition 10.25
Mixed Ability What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot Four Quartets, Little Gidding
Mixed Ability Time to reflect and consolidate 3…2..1. 3 things I remember 2 ideas I could adapt 1 question I have
Mixed Ability Part 2 • Living/ tourist • Offer multi-perspectives • Assessment for Learning
Mixed Ability That is the big question. What are the small questions?
Mixed Ability • Some answers through doing. • 3 activities; Poem, Building, and Growth of cities • Analysis, evaluation, reflection and finally create a model using the check list.
Mixed Ability • Remember the bridge?
Mixed Ability • Autobiography in 5 Chapters
Mixed Ability • Chapter 1 • Chapter 2 • Chapter 3 • Chapter 4 • Chapter 5
Mixed Ability • How did you remember? • In groups write chapter 5
Mixed Ability/AFL Questions?
Mixed Ability/AFL • The power of the group in discussion, memory, experience
Mixed Ability/AFL Find the person who has a key to what you need.