4. Impact, biggest changes….

Across all teams and age ranges, the greatest changes and greatest impact were as follows:

• Use of the visualiser: sharing and modelling work
• Talk partners creating a more vibrant, motivated, productive classroom with more pupil talk, less teacher talk and all pupils involved
• Greater mutual respect between teachers and children as a result of growth mindset awareness and focus, feeding into everything else and giving children emotional support
• Pupil generated success criteria focusing thinking
• Higher quality standards and accelerated learning
• More pupil independence and responsibility for learning
• Less teacher marking
• More open questions
• More cooperation between children
• More transferrable skills
• The fairness of random choices (lollysticks) for pupil work chosen or who responds to a question
• It’s all about the pupil: they are planning, involved, initiating, questioning, improving, helping each other and taking responsibility
• OFSTED highlighting the ownership of student learning
• Teachers are more enthusiastic about teaching