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My Education lesson. Spring 2013. Lesson objectives:. To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. To take action to improve education in the UK.
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My Education lesson Spring 2013
Lesson objectives: • To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. • To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. • To take action to improve education in the UK.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Starter: True or False? According to a recent Government survey, 3 out of 4 teachers think that behaviour is good or very good within schools. Answer True
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Starter: True or False? On average a teacher will lose 10 minutes of teaching time each day as a result of low-level disruption in classrooms. Answer False – on average, they lose 30 minutes each day.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Starter: True or False? Over 50% of adult male prisoners achieved no qualifications at all at school or college. Answer True – this is also true for 70% for adult female prisoners.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Starter: True or False? Nearly half of the students who attend Oxford University went to an Independent (fee paying) school. Answer True
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Starter: True or False? 5% of children in England live in severe poverty. False – 13% of children in England live in severe poverty. (approximately 1.7 million children) Answer
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Starter: True or False? Young people in the UK cannot influence politicians on education policy. Answer This is your opinion!
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Starter: Which statistic do you find most shocking? Why is this? • According to a recent Government survey, 3 out of 4 teachers think that behaviour is good or very good within schools. • On average a teacher will lose 30 minutes of teaching time each day as a result of low-level disruption in classrooms. • Over 50% of adult male prisoners and 70% of adult female prisoners achieved no qualifications at all at school or college. • Nearly half of the students who attend Oxford University went to an Independent (fee paying) school. • 13% of children in England live in severe poverty.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Main: Mind map What factors influence a person’s educational success?
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Extension: Complete the diamond 9. Rank each of the boxes in order of importance. • The most important goes at the top of the diamond. • The next two most important go underneath. • And so on until the single least important goes at the bottom.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Extension: Complete the diamond 9, with the factors you consider to be the most important. Rank each of the boxes in order of importance. • The most important goes at the top of the diamond. • The next two most important go underneath. • And so on until the single least important goes at the bottom.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Main: Factors that other pupils have come up with.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Main: Factors that other pupils have come up with.
LO: To identify what factors influence a person’s educational success. Main: Factors that other pupils have come up with.
LO: To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. Scrapping SATs. Main: Discussion Allowing schools to become Academies. What do we mean by policy? Introducing (and cutting) Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA). Can you think of any examples of policy?
LO: To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. Main: Create your own policy. In your group, decide on a statistic from the starter. You will need to work together to create a policy, which would help to overcome it. • According to a recent Government survey, 3 out of 4 teachers think that behaviour is good or very good within schools. • On average a teacher will lose 30 minutes of teaching time each day as a result of low-level disruption in classrooms. • Over 50% of adult male prisoners and 70% of adult female prisoners achieved no qualifications at all at school or college. • Nearly half of the students who attend Oxford University went to an Independent (fee paying) school. • 13% of children in England live in severe poverty.
LO: To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. Main: Create your own policy. • To help you to create your policy, you should answer the following questions: • Why is the statistic a problem? • Who has the power to change this? This can be more than one person or group of people. • How can they change this? • What do you propose should be done?
LO: To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. Main: Present your policy to the class. There will be a vote after we have heard from all groups so make sure you convince the class that your policy would improve education in the UK.
LO: To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. Main: Present your policy to the class. • Your presentation should: • Explain the key parts of your policy to the audience. • Persuade the audience that your policy would improve education in the UK. • To help, you could: • Use pitch or tone of voice to emphasise the key messages of your policy. • Use facts or statistics to back up your points. • Be committed to your idea, using words “will” and “must” rather than “maybe” or “might”. • Speakloudly enough (without shouting) to be heard by the audience. • Stand up straight and make eye contact with the audience.
LO: To decide what needs to be done to improve education for young people in the UK. Main: Vote! Which policy will improve our education system the most?
LO: To take action to improve education in the UK. Main: write a 100 word summary of your presentation and post in on facebook.com/aboutmyeducation or email it to myeducation@pearson.com Fill in the A3 sheet, start with the words ‘My Education...’, then post it on the facebook page *In sixth form or college? Submit your letter or policy as an entry to Teach First’s What Would You Change competition for your chance to win a tablet computer and an internship. Visit http://www.teachfirst.org.uk/wwyc for more info.
LO: To take action to improve education in the UK. Plenary: Tweet! • Design a tweet describing either: • your policy • or something you have learned this lesson • You can only use 140 characters (spaces count!) • You can tweet these after the lesson to #aboutmyEducation if you wish.