Today in maths professional development with Don, we have been thinking about the importance of giving all the children status in the classroom. It is really important that we recognise the different talents that different children bring to the class and that we acknowledge that every child has value to bring to a lesson.
Often, there are the same children who will always be the first to answer and the other children know this. There are ways we can avoid having the same children answering all the time:
- No hands up
- TPS (Think-pair-share)
- If someone asks for help, you can’t say no.
- Give children control by giving them the chance to ask someone else for help, or they can say “Can you come back to me soon?” - children have knowledge that the teacher will come back to them.
- Get a child to repeat another child's response instead of having to come up with something new.
By doing this, all children are made to have responsibility for their learning and there is an expectation that all children have value to add to the lesson.
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