Author: Craig Barton
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Tip 54. Five ideas to show students why what we are learning today matters
Summary of all five ideas: Sarah Cottingham has a great post about curiosity here Christine Counsell describes the idea of hinterland knowledge here Dan Meyer describes the headache-aspirin approach here General links
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Tip 53. Assess relevant prior knowledge for each idea, not for the whole sequence
Adam Boxer shares some thoughts about prior knowledge here Tom Sherrington writes about prior knowledge here General links
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Tip 52. Respond to prior knowledge assessment
All the resources shared about responsive teaching in Tip 37 and Tip 38 are relevant here General links
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Tip 51. Assess relevant prior knowledge
The original paper where Pointon and Sangwin share their question taxonomy is here Adam Boxer discusses monosemic and polysemic questions on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here All the resources shared in Tip 24 about checking for understanding are useful here General links
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Tip 50. Prioritise relevant prior knowledge
The blog that inspired this approach to prioritising prior knowledge can be read here General links
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Tip 49. Plan relevant prior knowledge
Adam Boxer shares some thoughts about prior knowledge here Tom Sherrington writes about prior knowledge here General links
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Tip 48. Aim to close the loop when sending an email
Chris Baker has a great post about Planning your school’s internal communication here Deep work, by Cal Newport, is available here A really good summary of Cal Newport’s work on email is here General links
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Tip 47. Two tips to help teachers engage in Deep Work
Deep work, by Cal Newport, is available here General links
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Tip 46. Four ideas to help you plan for and respond to errors
Helen Uttarotai shares a lovely, reflective post on how she tries to anticipate student errors as past of her lesson planning process here Fish tank learning have an interesting post about planning student responses to what they call “anchor problems” here Math agency describe how planning and anticipating student responses can be done collaboratively here…
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Tip 45. Write out ideal student responses
Fish tank learning have an interesting post about planning student responses to what they call “anchor problems” here Math agency describe how planning and anticipating student responses can be done collaboratively here General links