About Tips for Teachers

Hello! My name is Craig Barton, and thank you so much for visiting my Tips for Teachers website.

The dream!

My dream is to build a free, extensive and diverse collection of ideas that teachers of any level of experience, teaching any subject, any age-group, and from any country might find useful and be able to apply to their own teaching.

About Tips for Teachers

After nearly 20 years of teaching, 10 years of visiting schools all around the world, 6 years of interviewing the world’s leading experts on my Mr Barton Maths podcast, and reading research for my books, I wanted a way to categorise and access all the wonderful things I have learned from others.

Tips for Teachers is my attempt to do just that. Whether you prefer listening to podcasts or watching videos, doing CPD on the move or in school, learning on your own or with a colleage, hopefully there is something here for you.

With each tip, the challenge is always to ask yourself: what would I have to do/change to make this work for me, my situation and my students? Experimentation and frustration may follow, but hopefully something good will come out of it.

About Craig Barton

Craig Barton loves teaching, doing, speaking and thinking about mathematics. He taught maths in secondary schools for 15 years, and was TES Maths Adviser for 10 years. He is now the Head of Education at Eedi. Craig is also the author of the best-selling books “How I wish I’d taught maths” and “Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain”, the host of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, and the creator of far too many websites, including mrbartonmaths.com, diagnosticquestions.com, variationtheory.com, ssddproblems.com, dqaday.com and mathsvenns.com. In 2020 he was appointed as Visiting Fellow at the Mathematics Education Centre at the University of Loughborough. Craig has been lucky enough to teach maths and work with teachers all over the world. His two proudest achievements are convincing Kate to marry him, and being the father to our wonderful boy, Isaac.

Links to my books:

• How I wish I’d taught maths
• Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain
• The researchEd guide to education myths

Links to my podcasts:

• The Mr Barton Maths podcast
• Inside exams podcast

Links to my websites:

• Mr Barton Maths
• Diagnostic Questions
• Eedi
• Variation Theory
• SSDD Problems
• Maths Venns
• DQaDay

Terms and Conditions

Craig Barton owns the copyright in and to all content in and transcripts of The Tips for Teachers podcast and video podcast, with all rights reserved, as well as his right of publicity.

WHAT YOU’RE WELCOME TO DO:

You are welcome to share the transcript (up to 500 words) in media articles (e.g., The New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian), on your personal website, in a non-commercial article or blog post (e.g., Medium), and/or on a personal social media account for non-commercial purposes, provided that you include attribution to “Tips for Teachers” and link back to the URL you copied the excerpt from. For the sake of clarity, media outlets with advertising models are permitted to use excerpts from the transcript per the above.

WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED:

No one is authorized to copy any portion of the podcast or video content or use Craig Barton’s name, image or likeness for any commercial purpose or use, including without limitation inclusion in any books, e-books, book summaries or synopses, or on a commercial website or social media site (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) that offers or promotes your or another’s products or services.

Getting in touch

The two best ways to get in touch are:

• email: craig@tipsforteachers.co.uk
• twitter: @mrbartonmaths

I do get quite a lot of messages, so please do not be offended if I am unable to respond to you or take ages doing so.