BOUNCE BACK!

Part A: Building a Supportive Classroom

• Lots of ideas for the whole class to share together and so learn to value and respect each other's differences, feel good about themselves and enjoy working together, thus creating a supportive and caring classroom environment.

Part B: Using Co-Operative Learning

• The best way to teach children to work together is to first teach students specific co-operative social skills for working in groups. Twenty-five co-operative skills are treated in addition to enjoyable ways to select groups, different roles for group members and twelve co-operative games.

Part C: Working on the Same Topic but at Different Levels

• Units of work integrating different curriculum areas that tap into students' basic factual knowledge to tasks provoking higher order thinking.
• Basic skills checklist and how to create your own units of work for mixed ability classrooms.
• How to implement units of work to cater for student differences.
• Running independent learning contracts and fostering research skills.

Part D: Building School Support Teams

• Ways to link up support people in the school and community to help students succeed at their own level through the setting up of a peer tutoring programme (cross-age and the same age), working parents, team teaching and creating a mentor programme.

Part E: Strategies for Helping Students Get on with Their Work

• Enjoyable activities and visual memory joggers provide many ideas to encourage students to stay on task.

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