Close Up: Accelerated Learning in Primary Schools

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See and hear some of the best learning and teaching from six outstanding Primary Schools.

Close Up, Accelerated Learning in Primary Schools provides excerpts from nine very different classroom lessons for your professional development and enjoyment. If you are a classroom teacher, this quality DVD package gives you an opportunity to see what great learning can look like from the inside. Additional interviews with teachers and students help you understand what lies behind some outstanding lessons. If you are a manager, hear how each school followed its own learning journey.

Use Close Up, Accelerated Learning in Primary Schools to improve the all round quality of learning in your school and classroom or as an introduction to the Accelerated Learning approach. It provides you with:

-Over 160 minutes of professional development material for you and your staff
-Teachers describing genuine lessons in their own words – nothing is staged!
-Pupils talking about what they think ‘great learning’ looks like
-Senior Managers being honest about what works and what doesn’t
-An accessible, easy to use format
-A representative sample of schools

Find out about:

-Using a whole school learning model
-Creative and integrated approaches to curriculum design
-What’s important and what’s not!
-Behaviour for learning
-Arresting the under-achievement of Afro-Caribbean boys
-How to take ‘reluctant’ colleagues with you on the learning journey
-Different ways to bring a ‘dull topic’ to life
-The best classroom layouts
-Display for Learning
-Mixing groups
-Imaginative starts
-Effective questioning
-Thinking skills
-Developing discussion
-Creating a positive ethos for learning