At Meden we believe that educational research coupled with experience of teaching our students should underpin what we do as professionals in the classroom.
Agreed ‘active ingredients’ of effective teaching at Meden School:
- Challenge
- Explanation
- Modelling
- Practice
- Questioning
- Feedback
Learning happens when students connect new content to what they already know. To achieve this, we think teaching must involve:
- Challenge so that students have high expectations of what they can achieve.
- Explanation so that they acquire new knowledge.
- Modelling so that students know how to apply their knowledge (including explicit modelling of metacognitive strategies and the thinking processes of adults).
- Questioning so that students are made to think hard with breadth, depth and accuracy.
- Feedback so that students further develop their knowledge.
- Purposeful practice so that students think deeply and eventually achieve fluency.
The SEND department have developed their own response to the the 6 learning principles to use with SEND students. You can download these below:
Each Department has developed their own subject specific learning principles which they use to develop the teaching and student learning in their department (Please ask HOD for Department Learning Principles).
