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How do I use your teaching resources to plan and teach great lessons

You're all ready to start saving time by using our teaching resources for the classroom as a head start! All of our resources are free to use.

Here are are a few tips to make your lesson planning and classroom teaching go even more smoothly when using our curriculum plans and teaching resources.

Let's get started! 


Lesson page

When you click into a set of our lesson planning and teaching resources, you will find:

  • Lesson title
  • Learning outcomes which describes what pupils should know or be able to do by the end of your lesson.

Lesson page header with lesson title, learning outcomes and buttons to download resources, share activities with pupils and add teacher notes to share.

 

From here you can also:

    • Download all resources for this lesson to adapt as you need.
    • Share the activities in the lesson (starter quiz, video, worksheet and exit quiz) with your pupils. You can do this by copying the link, via Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams or by email.
    • Share this lesson with colleagues and add your own teacher notes to streamline sharing of resources in your school. 

Audio and video clips

Some subjects such as languages and MFL, music and PE have video and/or audio clips to enhance explanations, your own understanding and to create a richer learning experience in the classroom.

Lesson details

As you scroll down, you can find additional information about the resources including tips for when you plan your lesson:

Lesson details including key learning points, keywords, common misconceptions

Key learning points - describes the knowledge explored in the resources

Keywords that will appear in the teaching resources

Common misconception - empowering you to anticipate where pupils might have a misconception and how you could address this in your lesson

Teacher tip - a suggestion from the teacher who designed the resources of how you might bring them to life in your classroom

Content guidance - detail of any content that needs to be considered before delivery of the lesson

Supervision - recommended supervision level for pupils taking the lesson

How to plan a lesson using our resources - explains what the resources are for in this lesson including the downloadable quiz and worksheet questions and answers, the learning cycles in our slide decks and the lesson video. It also includes a link to the pupil version of the lesson.

Navigation

To easily navigate to a section we’ve provided quick links on the left of the page.

Left side quick link, for example lesson slides, lesson video, quizzes for easy navigation on a lesson page


How the resources are structured

Our teaching resources are adaptable, but as a rough guide, we've designed them to be used to teach lessons for approximately 50 minutes to 1-hour blocks (except at KS1 where they are closer to 40 minutes). They have a common structure which makes them easier for you to use and adapt.

How Oak resources are structured with icons

 

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  • Prior knowledge starter quiz - to activate and check prior knowledge. Our starter quizzes are downloadable as PDFs for printing or to display on a screen.
  • Learning cycles - our resources are designed to help you break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each cycle is formed of two pairs: explanation, peppered with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback for pupils. These are indicated in the slide deck using icons in the top right of the slides:

The Oak learning icons. Explanation, Check, Practice and Feedback. 

You can see these learning cycles in the lesson outline in our slide decks. It's a quick and simple way of scanning ahead.     

Learning cycles in the lesson outline in Oak slide decks              The practice tasks are in the slide decks and collated into worksheets - both of which you can download and edit.

  • Assessment exit quiz - this quiz checks understanding of the key learning points, keywords and misconceptions in the lesson you teach. Download and print them or display them on your whiteboard - the choice is yours!

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