Accelerate your Teaching Sprints through these tried & tested starters

Looking for inspiration to kickstart your Teaching Sprints? We've curated a small collection of high-leverage instructional techniques that all teachers - no matter their level of expertise - can develop in their practice.

We call them the Teaching Sprints Starters.

Check responses of all students

Check responses of all students
Pick non-volunteers

Pick non-volunteers
Peer feedback

Peer feedback
Integrate information for students

Integrate information for students
Embed opportunities for retrieval practice

Embed opportunities for retrieval practice
Move students through phases of guided practice

Move students through phases of guided practice

Additional starters to try

Present material in small steps

Use fully worked examples

Model metacognitive talk

Space the revision of concepts

Mix up practice tasks to boost performance

Ask students to re-state responses for accuracy or "say it again better"

Use self-explanation prompts (for deeper thinking)

Start with samples of work to communicate quality

Provide opportunities for students to compare/discuss conceptions of quality or "Choose, Swap, Choose"

Scaffolding productive dialogue