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Show call
What is it?
Show call is a Teach Like a Champion (TLAC) technique. It is a type of cold call that involves taking students' written work and displaying it to the class. Show call affords us opportunities to live mark a piece of work and, praise a student by sharing their best work, or display work that is incomplete and study it with the class with the aim of improving the work. Use this technique in phase 4 as you live mark; when you spot a common error or want to highlight excellent practice, show call is a great way to both CFU and re-teach.
Why is it important?
By spotlighting student work, show call engages and builds students’ perception in the problem solving process. It provides a quick and productive way to tackle errors or misconceptions as the teacher is able to tackle it with the whole class in a timely way. It means feedback is live and students are able to improve their work quickly. When done well, show call is a great way to build both think and participation ratio.
What to do:
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| The take When circulating the class during SLOP, look out for common errors or misconceptions. Also look for exemplary work. When you spot a great example of either, thank the student (I’m so glad you have made this mistake because it allows us all to learn…) and bring the class into SLANT. Take their work to the visualiser. | The reveal Ensure there is no split attention. Read the work out with expression. Normalise the process of this reveal by praising the good and highlighting what could be better. Frequently look up to check students have remained in SLANT. | Link to ATS Peg your ‘reveal’ to assessment threshold standards (ATS): use assessment objectives (AO) or language from the DPR key objective to make explicit links to grades or judgements: This sentence takes this response to ‘consolidating’, or this section demonstrates assessment objective 2 and moves it to a grade 7… | CFU Check for understanding (CFU) with key questions in between your explanation: How has this met the threshold / AO? How many marks would you give this? What level is this work at? | Fix it to upgrade Front load your instructions with MOP so students now fix their work based on your feedback in the show call: When I say go, in silence, you will fix your response making sure to include x and y from the feedback I just went through… You have 4 minutes. Ready? Go! |
