Dialogic Talk
In a CPD session last year, we watched a video on dialogic talk. The lesson that we watched was a fourth grade Maths lesson. The teacher...
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...
Checking for Recall and Understanding
I would say that this is often one of the weakest areas of practice in teaching in relation to how important it is: checking that...
Ten teaching techniques to practise - deliberately
It’s a well-established idea that, to develop expertise in a particular skill or technique, you need to practise. The more you practise,...
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...
CPD Film Club Reflection
Dialogic talk CPD session The lesson that we watched was a fourth grade Maths lesson. The teacher wrote an equation on the board asked...