Hopefully the students have learnt as much as I have in the last few weeks
Every morning I am woken up by my cat between 5 and 6 am, a time of her choosing, and whilst she cries for attention I am thinking about...
The Components of Direct Instruction
Article: The Components of Direct Instruction Author: Cathy L. Watkins, Timothy A. Slocum Reading Time: 2 hours The purpose of this...
Making use of my Big Whiteboards
One of the Principles of Great Teaching that I have chosen to focus on this year is Checking for Understanding. This is something that I...
How I Teach - Dan Rodriguez-Clark
In this post I am going to share some of the ideas I use in my day to day lessons. These aren't lessons that I have prepared specifically...
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...
Why formative assessment matters
The memory of a chess master is both astonishing and limited. Masters can take in and remember game situations at a glance; novices...
TWO CLIPS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO MASTER THE COLD CALL TECHNIQUE
Had the opportunity to talk teaching with an amazing group of math, science and technology teachers from my own region in the New York...
Thinking Activities
I recently came across a couple of excellent templates for some brilliant activities to help get students thinking more deeply about the...
Contemporary educational ideas all teachers should know about
As I was looking ahead to starting a new job as Headteacher, I was thinking about all the conversations we were going to have about...