Effective Teaching and Learning

Ansford Academy is committed to ensuring high quality teaching and learning for all students.  Raising student motivation and achievement is at the core of our improvement planning.
 

Effective teaching takes place when:

  • Teachers are enthusiastic about their subject and convey their enthusiasm to students.
     
  • The teaching has a clear purpose and lessons are well planned.
     
  • Objectives are shared and understood by students at the start of the lesson.
     
  • Teachers are confident of their own subject knowledge and skills.
     
  • Lessons have suitable content.
     
  • Activities are well chosen to promote learning of that content.
     
  • Teaching methods engage, motivate and challenge all students, enabling them to progress at a suitable pace, and to be aware of their achievements and progress.
     

Effective learning is where students respond readily to the challenge of the tasks set and show a willingness to concentrate.  Learning experiences will:
 

  • Engage students in the process of enquiry.
     
  • Recognise the value of the students’ own experience.
     
  • Reflect individual needs and abilities.
     
  • Build on prior attainment.
     
  • Recognise individual choice and initiative.
     
  • Involve students in a variety of purposeful activities.
     
  • Involve a variety of organisational arrangements including working as individuals, small groups, and as a class.
     
  • Takes place in an environment conducive to learning where there is order, purposeful structure, clear and high expectations of behaviour and attitude, and a relationship between teacher and students which is relaxed but purposeful.
     

Involve techniques and strategies in a variety of contexts such as in the classroom, academy and wider community:

  • Build upon and develop the creative imagination of students.
     
  • Develop enquiry-based learning by using sources of information in a confident and effective manner.
     
  • Students are entitled to an environment which is conducive to effective learning. 

    The learning environment at Ansford Academy will provide:
     
  • Classrooms which are well maintained and kept clean and tidy.
     
  • Displays which are well presented and include students work.
     
  • Displays which are used to stimulate and reinforce learning.
     
  • Access to specialist facilities and equipment appropriate to the curriculum.
     
  • Adequate space in which students can work.
     
  • A healthy and safe place in which to learn.