Toolkit: How to make positive changes to your teaching
Do you want to make positive changes to your teaching but you're not sure how to start?
This free, printable poster, which is part of our professional development toolkit, will help you make positive changes to your teaching for you and your learners. It offers a five-step action plan to implement small changes that have a big impact. It helps you think about how to:
- identify a situation you would like to improve or a problem you would like to fix
- decide what types of changes might help you achieve your goal
- find available resources
- choose ideas to try out in class
- evaluate the impact of the change.
You can view the poster online or print it to display in a space you share with other teachers.
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Watch the video below to find out more about how this action plan will help you make positive changes to your teaching.
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- Transcript – How to make positive changes to your teaching
NARRATOR: How to make positive changes to your teaching [On screen: How to make positive changes to your teaching]. How can you make changes to your teaching that will truly improve learning outcomes? Follow five steps to help you make small changes that have a big impact.
Step one: Your situation [On screen: 1. Your situation]. Think about the situation you want to improve [On screen: What do I want to improve?] or the most significant challenges [On screen: What are the biggest challenges?]. Choose one priority goal to focus on. For example, maybe you have a group with very diverse needs, and it's a challenge to support and engage them all.
Step two: Type of change [On screen: 2. Type of change]. What changes might help you to achieve your goals? For example, how you set up the room, how you provide scaffolding or differentiation.Step three: Resources [On screen: 3. Resources]. Where can you find ideas for actions on this topic? Use TeachingEnglish to help you find the support you need.
Step four: Action [On screen: 4. Action]. Choose one or two ideas that you're going to try out in class. What are you going to do?
Step five: Evaluation [On screen: 5. Evaluation]. How did it go? What impact did the changes make? Will you incorporate the changes into your teaching or try something else? Reflect and decide on your next steps.Following these five steps – from planning to action to evaluation – will help make positive changes to your teaching, for you and your learners.
Poster text
How to make positive changes to your teaching
Small changes in your teaching can make a big difference in your classroom. Follow this action plan to identify the changes you can make to generate a positive impact on learning.
1. Your situation
What is the situation you would like to improve or the problem you would like to fix?
2. Type of change
What changes might help you achieve these goals? For example, how you set up the room, how you deal with feedback and correction, how you provide scaffolding or how you provide differentiation.
3. Resources
Where can you find ideas for action on this topic?
4. Action
Choose one or two ideas that you can try out in class. What are you going to do?
5. Evaluation
How did it go? What impact did the change(s) have? Will you incorporate the change(s) into your teaching or do you want to try something else? Reflect and decide on your next steps.