The Education landscape is littered with false dichotomies.

I am reluctant to perpetuate another one but I am also really interested in what teachers would say about where the balance between these two forms of instruction should lie.

Imagine there were only 2 modes of teaching. Yes, we know there are more but just imagine there are only 2.

Teacher Mode A	Teacher Mode B
You explain You model They practice You check and give feedback Test them. Test them again a bit later.	Explore; Discover Hands-on experience Inspire some AWE Go off piste Make things; do projects; set open ended tasks; give choices

Modes were developed by Tom Sherrington

I’m sure you will agree that most teachers work in both modes.

Yes sometimes they will work in both simultaneously. We often throw in a little teacher Mode B “Inspire some AWE” during our Teacher Mode A “Explain and Model”.

I’d like to know what you would consider the right balance of Teacher Mode A and Teacher Mode B.

In your version of an ideal school what % of time would students be learning in Mode A and B.

100% Mode A : 0% Mode B

90% Mode A: 10% Mode B

80% Mode A: 20% Mode B

70% Mode A: 30% Mode B

60% Mode A: 40% Mode B

50% Mode A: 50% Mode B

40% Mode A: 60% Mode B

30% Mode A: 70% Mode B

20% Mode A: 80% Mode B

10% Mode A: 90% Mode B

0% Mode A: 100% Mode B

My plan is to ask as many teachers as I can the same question.

Please complete my quick 3-minute survey then share if you are interested in finding out what other practitioners are actually doing.

Click here to do the survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FS2VV6M