Lesson planning takes time. We all know. The elaboration of high quality, attractive and well structured lessons that explain erroneous concepts of students, differentiation and evaluation is a continuous challenge. What would happen if we had a way to refine lessons plans before entering the classroom? That is exactly what I have been exploring in […]
Since it was launched with mini white plaques (see this publication) about recent years, my ability to know if students are paying attention, thinking and practicing has dramatically. Because I am a group of habitual teaching of children with whom I am not before, I always take out a seat plan and I assure myself […]
Beyond the notion that is good for students chat, or “make prayers”, is there any real merit to talk to quotes lessons? Recently on Twitter, Barry Smith got in touch to review all the things he sees that they regularly go wrong with ‘Turn & Talk’: Children do not know much and simply cannot articulate […]
After a recommendation by Sam Freedman, I recently devour Davies’s’s The innovation machine. It is an attempt to analyze ‘what went wrong’ in what we could call the West during the last decade more or less through the cybernetic lens. I know right? However, if the first is to assume that it must have something […]
Despite our best efforts, the academic performance of our more and less advantages refuses stubbornly to close. In fact, as a recently shows from the Institute of Educational Policy, the gap seems to be expanding. At the national level, disadvantaged students at the end of primary school were 10.3 months behind their classmates in 2023, […]
This publication is an extract of Give life to the English curriculum. To teach responsibility, teachers must quickly identify erroneous concepts and verify the understanding of students. A hinge question is a diagnostic tool implemented at a point of a lesson, hinge, where teachers need to know if students are ready to advance require more […]
Approximately in recent years, I have the habit of teaching demonstration lessons in schools with which I work to be clearer how to teach cash. One of the things that makes this useful is that I always teach students that I do not know and, instead of seeing a skill To work. Recently, I taught […]
If you’re considering a career in supply teaching, understanding the key supply teaching benefits is crucial. Supply teaching offers flexibility, diverse experiences, and valuable opportunities for professional growth. In this article, we’ll dive into these benefits and more, showing why supply teaching might be the ideal path for you. Key Takeaways Supply teaching offers unparalleled […]
After a muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuta pause of blogs, I have decided to prove the livelihood. You can subscribe here. For the next girls of girls, I also publish here on the learning Spy site, but, depending on how things go, I intend to be possible as much. I hope you come with me. *** Training teachers how […]
A reminder that I’m shifting my output over to Substack, so it would be wonderful if you could subscribe over there. I’ve been reworking some older posts on this blog and publishing them there so you may recognise a few old favourites. In Attention, Meaning & Mastery I wrote that all teachers need to answer four questions […]
