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2. Five Steps to Heaven
It is important to have a structure in mind when communicating across a whole lesson.
One way to do this is the Five Steps to Heaven model:
Step 1 - Connect the learning to the learners (Why is this important?)
Step 2 - Explain what the children need to know (What you need to know.)
Step 3 - Include a learning activity (Now you do it.)
Step 4 - Ask what they found (What happened?)
Step 5 - Connect to other things (How else could you apply this learning?)
3. Motivation
Learning is underpinned by motivation. Talk about what will happen when they do this
as well as what they will have avoided.
4. Break it Down
In any learning episode, we are likely to remember the first thing that happened and
the last.
When you explain what will be in the lesson, open your student’s minds by chunking
what you tell them into clear categories:
• Start by explaining the big picture concept and then break it down.
• Summarise what they will learn, breaking down the elements as you would in a
well-drawn mind map.
• Do this for each element of learning that will take place in the classroom.
• Include a learning summary at the start of the lesson as well as at the end.
5. What do You Expect?
Make sure that your expectations are clear from the start.
Effective Questioning
1. Sometimes students will ask question in order to get you to give them the answer
when what you really want is that they think about things more deeply, or for
themselves. Simply redirect them by asking a question back.
2. Seven great rescue questions:
• Tell me more about that?
• What else?
• How else?
• And that’s like what?
• If you did know the answer what would it be?
• What’s the best question that I could ask you now?
• How do you know?