It is a scene many teachers will be all too familiar with – that point in the lesson where you feel sure a small army of invisible ants must have somehow staged a takeover bid for at least half the chairs in the classroom.
Rather than engaging in a bit of deep reflection on the practical session they have just enjoyed, your students are beginning to shuffle in their seats. Throw in a few glazed expressions and you know that some of your learners are not engaging quite in the way you might like.
It is an issue that music teacher Phil Kennedy, from Fallibroome Academy in Macclesfield, decided to tackle with a bit of targeted enquiry – something which is encouraged by the school as part of its research-engaged ethos.
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