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Green Gates’ 6 Principles of Effective Teaching and Learning

Adaptive What this looks like in our classrooms:
Practice

Scaffolding Teachers provide a range of scaffolds which are removed gradually when pupils
become successful.

Teachers provide examples, which are relevant, relatable and varied; and non examples
which do not fit a particular concept.

Worked examples are used regularly by teachers to help reduce cognitive load by
demonstrating learning step by step. Pupils’ work mirrors that of the worked example.

Head-on Teachers plan for misconceptions prior to them arising and use these to show the
Misconceptions children ‘what it isn’t’ as part of the modelling process.

Pitch it Up Learning is ambitious with pupils being expected to achieve the same outcomes at
the end of a learning sequence.

Rather than reducing expectations, scaffolds are used ti support all children to
achieve the same ambitious end points.

Flexible Pupils are organised into different groups that change regularly based on the
Groupings learning objective, task, or pupils’ needs — rather than remaining in fixed “ability
groups.”

Groups are fluid and responsive. Groupings can change between and even within a
single lesson.

Pupils are not labelled or limited by fixed ability groups. Everyone has access to the
same ambitious curriculum.

So that… Every child is able to achieve.