The Ingredients for Great Teaching
The Ingredients For Great Teaching is an evidence informed book by Pedro De Bruyckere on some broad themes that help make teaching great....
Making Every Lesson Count
This post is a summary of the book Making Every Lesson Count by Shaun Allison and Andy Tharby. The book aims to provide a set of...
There Is No Perfect Teacher (Just a Bunch of Great Ones)
I’ve taught at two schools in my career. The first, in California, had a dozen teachers in total. I adored my colleagues, but we each had...
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...
Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?
Article: Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? Author: Daniel T. Willingham "Students can learn certain metacognitive strategies...
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,...
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...
Principles of Effective Teaching
Teachers are always being offered lists of principles, axioms, tenets, precepts – the magic beans of teaching. We’re desperate to make...