Making the most of 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 habits and routines
Means of participation
- Participation ratio
- Front-load the means of participation
- Cold Call
- Mini-whiteboards
- Call and Respond
- Turn and Talk
Checking for understanding and responsive teaching
- Checking for listening
- Checking for understanding
- A model for responsive teaching
- Plan follow-up questions in advance
- Don’t round up
- Diagnostic questions
- Learner-Generated Examples
Phases of a Learning Episode
- Planning a Learning Episode
- Do Now
- Purpose
- Atomisation
- I Do
- We Do
- Maximising the participation ratio during independent practice
- Consolidation
- Purposeful Practice
- Problem-solving
Memory and retrieval
- Desirable difficulties and four key retrieval opportunities
- Getting students on board with retrieval
- The role of confidence in learning
- Low-Stakes Quiz
- Homework
- Whole-class feedback
- Walking-Talking mock exams
Things for heads of department and senior leaders to think about
- How prescriptive should a Head of Department be?
- Lesson planning
- Premortem: The key to ensuring change sticks?
- The myth of copying things down
- Correcting in green pen does not work
- I’d also recommend listening to this conversation with two experienced Heads of Maths, and this conversation with Jo Morgan
Messing about with AI
- NotebookLM: My favourite AI tool
- My AI prompts to create maths resources
- Maths games I have built with Claude artefacts
- I heartily recommend signing up to Neil Almond’s free teacher-focussed AI newsletter. Each week, he compiles the latest AI developments and also shares a prompt you can use right away that might save you time, help you do your job better, or maybe both!
