Over the last few years, I have been fortunate enough to observe thousands of maths lessons in schools across the UK and beyond. This website is my attempt to give back – to share what I have learned so that any teacher or department can take steps to improve their students’ outcomes.
***This website is a work in progress. Over the coming months, I will write new and improve existing pages as I learn***
This website is free and always will be. If you find my work useful, the best way to show your support is to become a Patreon.
Craig
Contents
Tips for Teachers
How to use this website
Habits and routines
- Supporting teacher change: How I observe a lesson and give feedback
- The power of an imaginary coach
- Supporting student change: Embedding new routines
Means of participation
- Participation ratio
- Front-load the means of participation
- Cold Call
- Mini-whiteboards
- Call and Respond
- Turn and Talk – coming soon!
Checking for understanding and responsive teaching
- Checking for listening
- Checking for understanding: 10 key principles – coming soon!
- A model for responsive teaching
- Don’t round up – coming soon!
- Diagnostic questions – coming soon!
- Learner-generated examples – coming soon!
Phases of a lesson
- Lesson planning
- The building blocks of a lesson
- Do Now
- Purpose – coming soon!
- Atomisation – coming soon!
- I Do – coming soon!
- We Do – coming soon!
- Consolidation
- Problem-solving
Memory and retrieval
- Desirable difficulties and four key retrieval opportunities
- Getting students on board with retrieval
- Low-Stakes Quiz – coming soon!
- Homework and feedback – coming soon!
- Walking-Talking mock exams – coming soon!
My educational ramblings
These are adapted versions of my most popular/controversial posts from my Eedi newsletter
- The myth of copying things down
- Correcting in green pen does not work
- How prescriptive should a Head of Department be?
- Plan follow-up questions in advance
