What if the supports we give students could raise the bar instead of lowering it? We sit down with Alex Fairlamb, Trust Teaching and Learning Network Lead and Assistant Principal, and author of The Scaffolding Effect, to unpack how temporary, responsive scaffolds help learners move from guided practice to genuine independence without sacrificing high expectations. We dig into scaffolding as a core part of adaptive teaching: anticipating barriers before a lesson starts, using data and recent ...
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What if the supports we give students could raise the bar instead of lowering it? We sit down with Alex Fairlamb, Trust Teaching and Learning Network Lead and Assistant Principal, and author of The Scaffolding Effect, to unpack how temporary, responsive scaffolds help learners move from guided practice to genuine independence without sacrificing high expectations. We dig into scaffolding as a core part of adaptive teaching: anticipating barriers before a lesson starts, using data and recent ...
36. What does literacy utopia look like, and how can we get there? with Jennie Shearer
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36. What does literacy utopia look like, and how can we get there? with Jennie Shearer
What if every secondary school teacher knew how to teach a child to read? What if we stopped treating literacy as simply spelling and grammar exercises and instead recognised it as the foundation of all learning? In this thought-provoking conversation with English teacher and literacy lead Jennie Shearer, we explore the troubling reality that most teachers have never been taught how to support struggling readers. Jennie shares her frustration with CPD sessions that fail to address this funda...
Bedrock Talks from Bedrock Learning
What if the supports we give students could raise the bar instead of lowering it? We sit down with Alex Fairlamb, Trust Teaching and Learning Network Lead and Assistant Principal, and author of The Scaffolding Effect, to unpack how temporary, responsive scaffolds help learners move from guided practice to genuine independence without sacrificing high expectations. We dig into scaffolding as a core part of adaptive teaching: anticipating barriers before a lesson starts, using data and recent ...
