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🧰 Welcome to the Task Design Toolkit
This page is home to the Task Design Toolkit — a bank of FREE ready-to-use thinking structure packs that support you in helping pupils organise knowledge, retrieve key concepts, and apply their learning more effectively through well-designed tasks!
📥 Download: Chunking Knowledge: CPD Task Examples Pack
This pack includes:
✅ 6 classroom-ready chunking tasks
✅ Teacher instructions and prompts
✅ Suggestions on how to make tasks more practical
✅ Extension and scaffolding adaptation ideas
📥 Download: Ranking and Comparing Knowledge: CPD Task Examples Pack
This pack includes:
✅ 6 classroom-ready Ranking and Comparing tasks
✅ Teacher instructions and prompts
✅ Suggestions on how to make tasks more practical
✅ Extension and scaffolding adaptation ideas
📥 Download: Sequencing Knowledge: CPD Task Examples Pack
This pack includes:
✅ 6 classroom-ready Sequencing tasks
✅ Teacher instructions and prompts
✅ Suggestions on how to make tasks more practical
✅ Extension and scaffolding adaptation ideas
📥 Download: Cause and Effect Knowledge: CPD Task Examples Pack
This pack includes:
✅ 6 classroom-ready Cause and Effect tasks
✅ Teacher instructions and prompts
✅ Suggestions on how to make tasks more practical
✅ Extension and scaffolding adaptation ideas
📚 Sources & Inspiration
This Toolkit draws on the brilliant work of educators, researchers, and generous online communities. While the tasks and examples have been adapted and developed for the primary classroom, many of the underlying ideas are grounded in the work of the following individuals and groups:
🧠 Books & Research
David Goodwin & Oliver Caviglioli – Organise Ideas: Thinking by Hand, Extending the Mind
🌐 Online Educators & Threads
James Fitzpatrick (@mrfitzhist) – for insightful history task design and questioning
Matt Lynch (@Mathew_Lynch44) - Recall and retrieval tasks and challenges
Karl McGrath (@MRMICT) – for ideas around task design and retrieval challenges
Oliver Caviglioli (@olicav) – for dual coding and visual explanation frameworks
💬 Communities
Primary Task Design Facebook Group (led by @MRMICT) — a highly active space where educators generously share practical task structures and thinking routines
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