OER in Education:Books/ORBIT
The ORBIT coursebook
Preface
The ORBIT course book presents the resources produced by the ORBIT project in linear form. ORBIT is a resource bank for interactive teaching; each resource in ORBIT is a teaching idea that you can try in the classroom. Sometimes resources are provided with the teaching idea (including, in some cases, concrete lesson plans), but sometimes also the idea is simply presented, with little additional resources.
Each teaching idea is linked to:
- specific teaching approaches (group work, questioning, etc),
- specific subjects (mainly mathematics, and science, but also including literacy and language),
- topics within those subjects: e.g. fractions, magnetism;
- and linked to specific use of technology (where appropriate).
The online resource bank ORBIT allows you to explore the resources as you like, for instance start a subject/topic, and look at a linked teaching approach that you'd like to know more about, delve futher into subjects/topics, discover other teaching approaches from there, or look at technology, etc. However, it does not present a systematic overview. We thus created the ORBIT course book, that provides a systematic overview of all teaching approaches, linked to the relevant lesson ideas.
Introduction
Questioning
Teacher Education Resources: Questioning
- Questioning - Bloom's Taxonomy
- Questioning - Bloom's Taxonomy/Document
- Common Pitfalls of Questioning
- Common Pitfalls of Questioning/Document
Practical Classroom Activities: Questioning
The Importance of Dialogue in Whole Class and Group Work
- Teaching Approaches/Dialogic Teaching
- Teaching Approaches/Whole Class
- Teaching Approaches/Collaboration
- Teaching Approaches/Group Talk
Teacher Education Resources: Dialogue in Whole Class and Group Work
Practical Classroom Activities: Dialogue in Whole Class and Group Work
Assessment
Teacher Education Resources: Assessment
- Giving Oral Feedback
- Giving Oral Feedback/Document
- Giving Written Feedback
- Giving Written Feedback/Document
Practical Classroom Activities: Assessment
Inclusion and Differentiation
Teacher Education Resources: Inclusion and Differentiation
- Planning for Inclusion
- Differentiation
- Differentiation/Document
- Developing Progression in Primary Science
- Developing Progression in Primary Science/Document
Practical Classroom Activities: Inclusion and Differentiation
Developing Language
Teacher Education Resources: Developing Language
- Subject Specific Vocabulary
- Subject Specific Vocabulary/Document
- Directed Activities Related to Text (DARTs)
- Directed Activities Related to Text (DARTs)/Document
- Jargon - the language of science
- Developing Language in Primary Science
- Developing Language in Primary Science/Document
- Developing Language in Primary Science/Using Light
Practical Classroom Activities: Developing Language
- Exploring shape and its mathematical language through sorting activities
- Exploring shape and its mathematical language through sorting activities/Resource
- Exploring shape and its mathematical language through sorting activities/Resource 1
- Exploring shape and its mathematical language through sorting activities/Resource 2
- Exploring shape and its mathematical language through sorting activities/Resource 3
- Exploring shape and its mathematical language through sorting activities/Resource 4
