High-Impact Instruction
I have just finished reading High-Impact Instruction by Jim Knight. I received this book as part of the Instructional Coaching Institute...
10 Silver Arrows
Silver Arrows? It’s very hard to change your practice. We’re all so busy, very often it is difficult to create space to fully explore a...
Things I Wish I Had Known before now...
With the research I have been doing lately I have come across many things that seem like they should be at the very heart of teacher...
Mr Barton Podcast
I have been listening to the Mr Barton Podcast for about a year now. It makes my journey to and from school each day a bit more...
Popsicle Sticks and "Hands Down" are not the same as Cold Call
Cold Call, as you probably know if you read this blog regularly, is one of my favorite techniques– meaning that it’s one of the...
MITT Experience
I was already teaching at Markham before I joined the MITT programme and I decided to take part in it because it was a great opportunity...
12 Steps to a "Great Teacher" reputation
The agile teacher… responsive, risk-taking, juggling continually. Introduction I’m celebrating writing my 100th post, by trying to link...
10 Teaching Essentials and Pitfalls
In writing this, I’ve been thinking about two sets of teachers. Firstly, I’ve been thinking about various very strong teachers I’ve...
Only by very strict behaviour management can you free children's minds
Self-confessed ‘hippy’ headteacher Mike Fairclough believes that from strong behaviour management comes the freedom to broaden children’s...
10 Books Every Teacher Should Read
Recently I was asked to nominate a book or piece of writing that I thought represented the best educational writing of recent years. I...