Teaching and Learning
Teaching Skills Development: High Expectations
High expectations are something pupils should feel in every lesson, through routines you can start using tomorrow.
- 52 minutes
- 5 modules
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Run a no opt-out routine so every pupil ends up answering
- Stretch correct answers with follow-up questions that deepen thinking
- Keep pupils motivated with a clear goal, a model and regular checkpoints
- Use class critique and redrafting to raise the quality of work
- Notice when low expectations are colouring how you judge a pupil
About this course
Every teacher says they have high expectations. The difference shows in small moments: whether the pupil who said 'I don't know' is let off, whether a nearly-right answer is accepted, whether a first draft counts as finished.
You'll turn the idea into habits. You'll look at the research behind the Pygmalion effect, and its opposite, then at routines such as no opt-out, insisting that right is right, and following a correct answer with a harder question. You'll also see how to keep pupils motivated with a clear model to aim at and regular checkpoints, and how class critique and redrafting raise the standard of everyone's work.
It's presented by an experienced English teacher, who explains motivation through his own reluctant return to exercise on a treadmill he couldn't face for more than 15 minutes.
- For early career teachers, governors and teachers. Post-16, primary and secondary.
5 modules
Open in order
- 11 min
Having high expectations of pupils
- 5 min
Introduction
- 13 min
Motivating pupils
- 13 min
The habits of a good teacher
- 13 min
The eight steps of excellence