Tips for Teachers by Craig Barton

Author: Craig Barton

  • Julia Smith

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    This episode of the Tips for Teachers podcast is proudly supported by LUMENYou can download an mp3 of the podcast here. Julia Smith’s tips: Practice, practice, practice…not until you can get it right but until you cannot get it wrong (04:24) Revision should start from day one of a course, not at the end (12:57) It ain’t…

  • Tips for Teachers Newsletter #6

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    Make feedback into detective work This week I want to share a lovely tip from Sammy Kempner that should keep your students on their toes and really get them thinking hard. Sammy described two ways he “tricks” his students to test if they really understand something. First, he often makes deliberate mistakes whilst going through…

  • Sonia Thompson

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    This episode of the Tips for Teachers podcast is proudly supported by LUMENYou can download an mp3 of the podcast here. Sonia Thompson’s tips: Read for pleasure and read for progress (03:30) Be clear about your career pathway (12:42) Make use of the NPQs (23:03) Go out and visit other schools (28:43) Think about implementation (40:22)…

  • Think about implementation

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    More tips from Sonia Thompson Video transcript all right that’s fantastic well what is your fifth and final tip okay my final one kind of links to everything um and it is think about implementation and i think as a research school one of the really great documents that we’ve we use with our schools…

  • Go out and visit other schools

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    More tips from Sonia Thompson Video transcript okay so yes what about tip number four please okay tip number four links to tip number three go out and visit other schools see what they do the amount of times we work with schools as a research school um and also when we were a teaching…

  • Make use of the NPQs

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    More tips from Sonia Thompson Video transcript okay so yeah what is your third tip for us today please okay my third tip is make use of the mpqs i am a big advocate of mpq’s make use of them they are free and they provide some quality opportunities um for training coaching and to…

  • Be clear about your career pathway

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    More tips from Sonia Thompson Video transcript okay so what’s your second tip for us today please my second tip is be clear as a teacher be clear about your career pathway and what i’m what i always think is that there are class teachers who want to stay in the room in the classroom…

  • Read for pleasure and read for progress

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    More tips from Sonia Thompson Video transcript let’s dive straight into what’s your first tip you’ve got for us today the first tip i’m really passionate about and it’s be a teacher who reads and a reader who teaches read read for pleasure and read for progress that’s my first tip amazing tell us a…

  • Tips for Teachers Newsletter #5

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    Make feedback into detective work What’s the problem?For many, many years I have been frustrated by the time and effort that I put into marking and giving feedback, versus the time and effort my students put into to responding to that marking and feedback. Here is a typical scenario: I spend Sunday afternoon working my…

  • Sarah Cottingham

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    This episode of the Tips for Teachers podcast is proudly supported by Arc MathsYou can download an mp3 of the podcast here. Sarah Cottingham’s tips: Use tips when they act as solutions to problems you face (04:16) Always build from what they know (17:21) Beware the curse of knowledge (30:14) Use research on learning not as a…