Session overview

I do – we do – you do, worked examples, What A Good One Looks Like, What A Bad One Looks Like, live modelling, thinking aloud, vocabulary instruction, error modelling… We all do at least some of this, most of the time. But do we do it well? Does it lead to concrete positive pupil outcomes? Do pupils come on the modelling journey with us, or do they often get left behind? 

Modelling is one of those areas of teaching that no matter how many years you’ve been at the chalkface, you can always get better at it. Frustratingly, there are many ways it can go wrong. Helpfully, there are some practical techniques to ensure the time we put into modelling in lessons, leads to real, objectively positive outcomes.

Join us in this 1 hour 30 minute online session as we explore why modelling remains one of the most efficient ways of maximising learning for our most vulnerable pupils, why it typically goes wrong, and how we fix it.

As modelling is such a vast area of practice, the session will spotlight I do – we do – you do. We’ll unpack why it typically goes wrong, including a useful non-example and video recording examples of an excellent teacher modelling, modelling! We’ll then give participants time to rehearse using the ‘I-We-You’ strategy for a lesson coming up soon. 

Session aims

• Review the area of modelling being considered: I do – We do – You do
• Consider how modelling goes wrong
• Create actionable steps to ensure modelling leads to changes in pupil habits and outcomes

Intended outcomes

• Gain insight into where, how, and why your modelling might go wrong when teaching
• Rehearse for a lesson coming up soon and plan for how you will execute a solid I do – We do – You do

Facilitator

Andrew Young is Co-Director of Pathfinder Teaching School Hub and Education Partnership. He is a teacher of Social Sciences at Archbishop Holgate’s School and Author of ‘Adaptive Teaching: Culture to Classroom’ with Crown House Publishing. Andrew designed the original Adaptive Teaching CPD Programme in 2021 through the TSH which has since reached over 100 schools and thousands of pupils locally and nationally.