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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...

It’s a well-established idea that, to develop expertise in a particular skill or technique, you need to practise. The more you practise,...

Article: Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based,...

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...

In this post I am going to give a very brief overview of some websites that can be useful in the classroom. They all lend themselves very...

The agile teacher… responsive, risk-taking, juggling continually. Introduction I’m celebrating writing my 100th post, by trying to link...

Last Friday we had an INSET day. Our focus was thinking about how we can push and challenge those students with a high stating point, so...

Dialogic talk CPD session The lesson that we watched was a fourth grade Maths lesson. The teacher wrote an equation on the board asked...

In writing this, I’ve been thinking about two sets of teachers. Firstly, I’ve been thinking about various very strong teachers I’ve...

I have been reading some more educational research recently, and I am going to be posting some reflections on what I have taken away from...