A tool to help you achieve mastery in the classroom
LbQ slots seamlessly into any element of your lesson; a trusty tool that can be used effectively in lots of situations.
To get an idea of best practice, let's join Alastair in the lab...
Using LbQ to teach
Alastair is visiting Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School to teach a science lesson on isotopes with top set year 9. He uses a range of activities to engage and progress students. Let's see how he weaves LbQ into his lesson for maximum impact.
Outlining the lesson objectives
Alastair shares the lesson objectives with students so they know what the goal of the lesson is and the steps they're going to take to get there. It's also a great opportunity for students to get logged onto their tablets and put them to the side.
Using a great question to gauge prior learning
Using LbQ, Alastair sends out a diagram and text box for students to answer the question he poses to them. It's a great way to get to know the students in front of him and garner their prior learning.
He can then scroll through the answers at the board, anonymously, and share the answers with students, questioning their understanding.
Group work and teaching
We strongly believe that LbQ is a great tool for the classroom - but it shouldn't replace all the great activities you and your pupils enjoy in lessons. Here, Alastair gets students to do their own research by moving around the classroom to gather information - a great supplement activity to LbQ Question Sets.
Checking the learning
What have they learned and what more can they pick up? Alastair gets them started on a Question Set covering isotopes to find out. He encourages active reading of the feedback they get after each answer by asking them to make note of any fresh information they find. Meanwhile, he uses the LbQ Matrix to target his interventions in the classroom.
Plenary and gap filling
It's Playdoh time! Students are given a plenary model-making task to ensure learning is consolidated, giving Alastair the opportunity to catch up with any students who demonstrated gaps in the last bit of the lesson.
Beyond the laboratory
Question Sets
A Question Set is kinda what it says on the tin. It's a resource that contains between 10 and 40 questions based on a single National Curriculum learning objective.
The Matrix: an x-ray for your class!
The teacher can see in real-time how all the pupils are getting on and intervene to ensure that misconceptions are nipped in the bud. You can be sure that every child is getting the right support at the right time.
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