In her first video update, logonliteracy's Pat Hipwell explains why cognitive verbs, also known as key task words, are so important for students to understand and recognise.
Questioning to ascertain prior knowledge is a very popular practice, but there is a danger when posing questions to the whole group that we only get a sense of what a few students know rather than everyone.
It is not uncommon to hear schools have a particular focus for a year, but it always concerns me when schools focus on reading and writing separately.
From my decades of being a teacher and teacher educator, I have learned many things. However, one thing that resonates very strongly is the importance of getting students engaged in learning from the opening minutes of a lesson.
