Deconstructing My Own Bad Ideas
Edssential article from @kennypieper : So, yes, I get it, that writing a blog is supposed to be about reflection and learning and thinking through your mistakes. Why is it, then, when I read over the...
View ArticleAdventures in my classroom – displays
Edssential article from @CristaHazell: A few days ago I was overjoyed to see that @flashsticks had tweeted a very old castle, it was an image from the grammar pages of a very ancient tricolore book...
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10 Research Based Principles of Instruction for Teachers
Edssential article from @dan_brinton: I recently read an American Educator article from 2012 by Barak Rosenshine that set out 10 principles of instruction informed by research, with subsequent...
View ArticleGood boy – The Power of Feedback
Edssential article from @PeteJackson32 : So in clearing out the attic recently, it was my great pleasure, as an historian, to discover my old creative writing book from academic year 1989-1990. I...
View ArticleDealing with difficult conversations
Edssential article from @ICTEvangelist: It is true that honesty is always the best policy but how you deliver that feedback and have that conversation is something which can turn that conversation in...
View ArticleRevision and Research
Edssential article from @MissJLud: I don’t have much time to read blog posts anymore. I’m not sure I ever did but even less now I have made a conscious effort to ensure life comes before work and tend...
View ArticleThis much I know about what really works when preparing students for their...
Edssential article from @johntomsett : I am keener than ever to spend as much time as possible in classrooms. As I wrote in a post last October, leading our teachers’ own learning about teaching, is, I...
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A lesson is the wrong unit of time
Edssential article from @BodilUK: I think we talk too much about lessons. A lesson is usually the wrong unit of time to think about. @prcollins recently tweeted the following: Read More
View Article@IPEVO Making Teaching and Learning More Visible
Edssential article from @LeadingLearner : The world of teaching and learning can become full of gimmicks, fads and “must have” gadgets. The IPEVO visualiser is different. It is a rare example of a...
View ArticleEduBook Club – Second Meeting
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : Today saw the second EduBook club meeting at DHS, led by Andy Tharby. All classroom based staff were bought a book in September, from the selection above....
View ArticleDifferentiation: Just because it can’t be seen, doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Edssential article from @andyphilipday : I was asked to lead a morning session on Differentiation to a group of professionals on their training day this January. Not the usual symposium of teachers –...
View ArticleDeveloping the art of the sentence
Edssential article from @GoldfishBowlMM : If you have read Teach Like a Champion 2.0, you’ll be familiar with ‘The Art of the Sentence’. The technique is described as follows: Ask students to...
View ArticleMemory platforms
Edssential article from @atharby : A few years ago, still under the spell of the starter/main/development/plenary model of my teaching training, I began to stray. My distinctly unimpressive timekeeping...
View ArticleCan I be that little bit better at…..understanding why I might be getting...
Edssential article from @davidfawcett27 : There are a few things in education that either scare me or confuse me. One such thing is the term differentiation. When I trained as a teacher we discussed...
View ArticleTips for a Middle Management role
Edssential article from @jillberry102 : Sometimes, the extra-curricular life of the school enables us to indulge our hobbies, and to develop new interests. Teaching is demanding, and there are...
View ArticleWhy? Why? Why?
Edssential article from @MissDCox : On an education forum I frequent, teachers regularly complain about their school marking policy that demands them to mark student books, say every 2 lessons and how...
View ArticleTalking to myself
Edssential article from @GoldfishBowlMM : Teaching is a job where what we say matters. Our explanations, our questioning, our modelling, our interactions- they all rely on our talk being focussed and...
View ArticleThe Problem with Plenaries
Edssential article from @mrbunkeredu : If group work was the holy grail of my teacher training, effective plenaries were definitely the pedagogical white rabbit – the element of the lesson you always...
View ArticleReading aloud — Reading All the Books
Edssential article from @readingthebooks: I was not a confident reader in school. Fortunate enough to begin school knowing how to read, my abilities stalled mid-way through, and I couldn’t seem to move...
View Article3 Teaching Techniques That Made My 2014
Edssential article from @dmthomas90: At the start of this academic year I wanted to really put the theory of learning I knew into practice. Here are three teaching techniques I tried that I’ll be...
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