Guide

Teaching Strategies

Designed to support History, Citizenship, PSHE, RS and English, this resource offers a variety of classroom strategies to develop critical thinking and communication skills, model democracy in the classroom, and empower students to become active, responsible citizens.

Last Updated: September 26, 2022

This resource is intended for educators in the United Kingdom.

Guide

Language

English — UK

Culture & Identity

UK Teaching Strategies Guide

Date of Publication: September 2022

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Our new Teaching Strategies PDF collates a selection of strategies that appear frequently in our resources. Each strategy has a rationale and procedure for use, as well as an icon to facilitate student recall. To help you in choosing the right strategy, they have been coded in the following way:

Creating a Reflective Classroom Community (RCC)
Developing Knowledge and Understanding (KU)
Fostering Critical Engagement and Critical Thinking (CECT)
Developing Oracy and Listening Skills (OL)
Facilitating the Sharing of Ideas (SI)

At their core, all the strategies work towards creating a safe classroom space in which students feel respected, are able to learn from each other, and are encouraged to excel academically. Designed to support educators in the United Kingdom teaching History, Citizenship, PSHE, RS and English, this resource offers a variety of classroom strategies to develop critical thinking and communication skills, model democracy in the classroom, and empower students to become active, responsible citizens.

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This mood meter activity develops students’ vocabulary for describing their feelings and their empathy muscles.

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Students practice gratitude by naming and recording three good things that have happened that day.

Two students look to the front of the classroom with smiles on their faces.

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Students use poetry as a spark for reflection and discussion about what’s happening in their lives and the world.

Four students in conversation with each other in a classroom.

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Students practice debate and perspective taking by taking a stand on a controversial statement.

Students move around the classroom in conversation with each other. One student looks directly into the camera with a smile on their face.

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Students reflect on the day by asking them to share an appreciation, an apology, and an “aha” moment.

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Students identify one personal or academic goal that they would like to commit to in the week ahead.

A Facing History journal sits on top of a student guide for Choices in Little Rock.

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Students reflect on the past year and generate ideas for the kind of learning community and learning experiences they are hoping for this year.

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Students consider what parts of our identities we choose for ourselves and what parts are chosen for us, as well as the impact our names can have on our identities.