Is Independence a Myth For Schools?

Is it fair to demand independence from students? Is there time and justification for implementing independence in students? I am sure as children we were all the same: we wanted to stay up later; watch that 18 certificated film and be free to make our own choices. We wanted to be treated as an adult,

“Selling” SOLO Taxonomy to Staff

On my Independence Teaching journey the next academic year is the move from encouraging my students within my own classroom to expanding independence whole school. With six school teacher training sessions based on encouraging our students to be independent and resilient learners; I really want to provide training that is not only interactive but shows

Envoking independence through Displays

My next steps on my journey to independent and resilient learners is to make my room as user friendly as possible. There is much debate over what displays in classrooms should and are used for. They are time consuming to create, and most of the time form a list of students’ work from a “let’s

Encouraging Students to BECOME Successful

As always I am on a mission to get my students to take responsibility for their learning and as such I am going to use Dave Keeling’s BECOME method with my new year 8 groups on Monday. The premise is simple to make students aware that ownership is on them to get the most out

SOLO Taxonomy

After reading so many fantastic comments about SOLO Taxonomy I thought I would test it out with a few of my classes. The approach I have found words in a number of ways. I have essentially taken this as a thinking structure for the students to help them in preparation for their English exams coming

Teaching independence and Progression

So I am on a mission at the moment to make my students more “prepared” and more “aware” of their learning. I have been testing out any ideas, initiatives, theories that I can acquire from theorist and other teachers [and on here too!] Progression is a big push at the moment and I have been