Responsive Teaching

Responsive teaching combines what cognitive science tells us about how students learning (and the planning that demands) with what formative assessment tells us about how we can find out what students have understood, and adapt our teaching.

This allows us to:

1. Set clear goals and plan learning carefully
2. Identify what students have understood and where they are struggling
3. Respond, adapting our teaching to support students to do better.

There are currently seven half-hour video webinars covering elements of responsive teaching:

1) Introduction and overview: what is responsive teaching?

2) Long-term planning: How can we plan a unit, when we want students to learn so much, and have so little time?

3) Lesson planning: How can we plan a lesson, when we want students to learn so much, and have so little time?

4) Checking understanding: How can we check what students have understood?

5) Tracking thinking: How can we tell what students are thinking?

6) Feedback: when and what makes effective feedback?

7) Feedback: how can we make it work (for students, and for us)?