logo
  • Learning Teams
  • Videos
  • Courses
  • Resources
    • Supplementary course material
    • Suggested reading
  • About
  • Publications
  • Contact
Login Register
Home • Mathematics: Fractions

Mathematics: Fractions

Get full access

Access over 10 hours of excellent video clips and lessons for 5-11 year-olds (with some for 14 to 17-year-olds), curated playlists plus discussion starters for each element of formative assessment, and for every clip. Watching teachers in action makes the theory powerfully accessible and provides an invaluable INSET vehicle for discussion.

Sign up now Sign in

Video clips (6)

What is Formative Assessment?
Key - LI: learning intention; WAGOLL: what a good one looks like; PK: prior knowledge

Mathematics

  Context Clip numbers What you will see Age of students
Perimeter of compound shapes
  • 136,
  • 137,
Silent modelling; on the move feedback reducing anxiety 8-9 year olds
Counting to 20
  • 71,
Co-construction of success criteria 4-5 year olds
Measuring in centimetres
  • 76,
  • 77,
  • 78,
  • 79,
LI clarity, co-construction of success criteria, mid-lesson learning stop 5-7 year olds
Adding on a number line
  • 12,
Co-construction of success criteria 5-6 year olds
Fractions - halving
  • 80,
A child’s mistake is celebrated at the visualizer for all to learn from 5-6 year olds
Counting in 2s,5s,10s
  • 91,
Teacher on the move feedback, challenging every child 5-6 year olds
Subtraction 2 digits
  • 60,
  • 61,
PK starter, co-construction of success criteria 6-7 year olds
Word problems for multiplication (US footage)
  • 131,
Paired discussion of their pictorial representations, group discussions, mid-lesson learning stop, interview with teacher 8-9 year olds
Estimating weight
  • 63,
  • 64,
  • 65,
LI overview, paired learning, exit card with improvements 8-9 year olds
Adding fractions
  • 138,
  • 139,
Prior knowledge starter / Co-constructing success criteria 10-11 year olds
Multiplying fractions
  • 133,
  • 134,
Feedback 9-10 year olds
Equivalent fractions
  • 10,
PK lesson start, paired talk 9-10 year olds
Fractions
  • 81,
  • 82,
  • 83,
  • 84,
PK lesson start, mid-lesson learning stop, mindsets, peer coaching 9-10 year olds
Range and mode
  • 38,
  • 39,
  • 41,
  • 40,
  • 42,
PK starter, success criteria feedback, mid-lesson learning stop, exit card 10-11 year olds
Finding percentages (1)
  • 43,
  • 44,
  • 45,
  • 46,
  • 47,
  • 48,
PK starter, teaching the skill, success criteria, mid-lesson learning stop, on the move feedback, improvements, Shirley and Seamus review discussion 10-11 year olds
Finding percentages (2)
  • 49,
  • 50,
  • 51,
  • 52,
LI starter, re-teaching the skill, co-constructing success criteria, feedback to teacher 10-11 year olds
Conics (US footage)
  • 128,
  • 129,
Paired review, on the move feedback, mid –lesson learning stop, teacher and student interviews 16-17 year olds

Literacy

  Context Clip numbers What you will see Age of students
Letter writing
  • 85,
  • 87,
  • 86,
  • 88,
  • 89,
  • 90,
Talk partners, success criteria, WAGOLL, mid lesson learning stop 5-6 year olds
Characterisation
  • 8,
PK lesson starter 5-6 year olds
Descriptive writing
  • 135,
Feedback 6-7 year olds
Instructional writing
  • 56,
  • 57,
  • 58,
  • 59,
LI overview, co-construction of success criteria, WAGOLL, cooperative peer feedback 6-7 year olds
Newspaper article
  • 7,
  • 13,
  • 18,
PK starter, co-construction of success criteria, mid lesson learning stop 6-7 year olds
Invitation writing
  • 6,
  • 14,
  • 19,
PK lesson starter, co-construction of success criteria, mid-lesson learning stop, cooperative peer feedback 7-9 year olds
Severe learning difficulties context
  • 1,
  • 11,
Choosing rather than teacher directed; success criteria via Maketon (sign language) images 7-9 year olds
Persuasive writing
  • 66,
  • 67,
  • 68,
  • 69,
  • 70,
PK starter, co-construction of success criteria, analysis of excellent examples, cooperative peer feedback, mid-lesson learning stop, on-the move feedback 8-9 year olds
Persuasive letter
  • 140,
Co-constructing success criteria 8-9 year olds
Written debate
  • 124,
  • 125,
  • 126,
  • 127,
PK lesson starter, analysis of good ones, co-construction of success criteria 9-10 year olds
Descriptive sentences
  • 9,
  • 20,
PK lesson starter, mid lesson learning stop, cooperative peer feedback, teacher interview 9-10 year olds
Connectives
  • 16,
Talk partner random pairing , snowballing to make 4 9-10 year olds
Balanced argument
  • 21,
  • 22,
  • 23,
Success criteria bingo, WAGOLL, on the move feedback 10-11 year olds
Writing from ‘Arrival’ by Shaun Tan
  • 96,
  • 98,
  • 95,
  • 97,
  • 99,
  • 100,
Co-construction of success criteria, on the move feedback, mid-lesson learning stop, cooperative peer feedback, best improvements shared 10-11 year olds
Speech writing
  • 118,
  • 119,
  • 120,
  • 122,
  • 121,
  • 123,
Teachers modelling peer improvement discussion, cooperative peer discussion 10-11 year olds
Guided Reading
  • 28,
  • 29,
  • 30,
  • 31,
Success criteria review, defining excellence, pupil as teacher 10-11 year olds
Scary story opening
  • 24,
  • 25,
  • 26,
  • 27,
PK starter, analysis of excellent examples, mid- lesson learning stop, cooperative peer feedback 10-11 year olds
Suspense writing
  • 5,
Lesson starter-role play 10-11 year olds
Suspense writing
  • 92,
  • 93,
  • 94,
Co-constructing success criteria, mid- lesson learning stop, cooperative peer feedback 10-11 year olds

Science

  Context Clip numbers What you will see Age of students
Soil study
  • 130,
Talk partner self-evaluation, changing random talk partners, interview with teacher 15-16 year olds
Method Design
  • 132,
Co-construction of success criteria via analysis of different examples 15-16 year olds

Art

  Context Clip numbers What you will see Age of students
Self portraits
  • 72,
Co-construction of success criteria 4-5 year olds
Drawing
  • 17,
Teacher feedback of success and improvement against success criteria both whole class and individual feedback 4-5 year olds
Collage
  • 32,
  • 33,
  • 34,
PK lesson starter, analyzing excellent examples, co-construction of success criteria, mid-lesson learning stop, feedback improvements 10-11 year olds

History

  Context Clip numbers What you will see Age of students
The Monarchy
  • 101,
Children’s ideas and questions in compiling topic structure 10-11 year olds

Metacognition & mindsets

  Context Clip numbers What you will see Age of students
Relationships
  • 2,
Children are dismissed from the carpet, each child valued for his/her achievements 4-5 year olds
Resilience
  • 115,
  • 116,
  • 117,
Paired discussions about mindsets, video of a snail’s determination, class debate, personal challenges 5-6 year olds
Talk partner evaluation
  • 15,
Pairs self and peer evaluate 5-6 year olds
Mistakes
  • 53,
Paired discussion about mistakes 6-7 year olds
Resilience
  • 103,
  • 104,
  • 105,
  • 106,
  • 107,
  • 108,
Pairs discuss mistakes, a metaphor for resilience of a bouncing ball, mindset discussions, ‘stuck’ strategies 8-9 year olds
Achievement
  • 3,
Children reflect on what made them able to achieve 8-9 year olds
Learning powers
  • 4,
Whole class reflections 9-10 year olds
Defining learning
  • 54,
Children’s ideas about learning 10-11 year olds
Brain v. Calculator
  • 109,
  • 110,
  • 112,
  • 113,
  • 114,
Group roles, teacher intervention, group reporting, group challenges, mindset discussions 10-11 year olds
Learning powers
  • 55,
Pairs discuss learning powers 10-11 year olds

Sign in

Forgotten your password?

Don't have an account? Sign up

Follow Shirley on Twitter

Ashdown Education Ltd. and Shirley Clarke Media Ltd.
45 Upper Close, Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5DS

office@shirleyclarke-education.org

© Shirley Clarke Media Ltd 2023 Terms | Privacy Created by Tomango