Talking 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...
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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 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...
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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...
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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 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 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 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 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...
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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
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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...
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 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 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...
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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 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...
View ArticleDeconstructing 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...
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