Consider a lesson you will be teaching soon. Reflect on the learning outcomes you have planned for, and the teaching strategies you will use to help pupils achieve them.

Will the strategies enable pupils’ independent learning, encouraging them to move through to the more advanced thinking skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation?

What additional teaching strategies could you plan into the work that will move pupils on more effectively to address questions of quality and independent learning?

Try to use one of the strategies listed above to enable more independent learning.