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Here are some possible scenarios to illustrate what we hope the participants would come up with: | Here are some possible scenarios to illustrate what we hope the participants would come up with: | ||
* A teacher goes to a different school - how do they convince the headteacher to try interactive teaching? (OR: A new teacher comes to your school - what do you tell them about interactive teaching?) | * A teacher goes to a different school - how do they convince the headteacher to try interactive teaching? (OR: A new teacher comes to your school - what do you tell them about interactive teaching?) | ||
* The inspector says …. “You need to do pace groups – in Zambia, we do pace groups!” - what do you say? Perhaps you can remind the participants of the “banana group” in Agness’ class who kept going off to sit in other groups (Unit 3.3.2), and of the incident of some of Judith’s students laughing at the group who got all wrong answers in a maths lesson (3.3.3). | * The inspector says …. “You need to do pace groups – in Zambia, we do pace groups!” - what do you say? Perhaps you can remind the participants of the “banana group” in Agness’ class who kept going off to sit in other groups (Unit 3.3.2), and of the incident of some of Judith’s students laughing at the group who got all wrong answers in a maths lesson (3.3.3). Agness and Judith use mixed pace groups now because they found that more students participate. | ||
[It may not be the inspector who says this as there is now a move towards wider acceptance of mixed pace groups - it may be a parent who was taught themselves in pace groups who is questioning your rationale.] | |||
* Headteacher says to you that “writing on the board is better, because children then remember”, so you should not do so much interactive teaching. How do you respond? | * Headteacher says to you that “writing on the board is better, because children then remember”, so you should not do so much interactive teaching. How do you respond? | ||
