Author: Craig Barton
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Tips for Teachers Newsletter #2
Use a Front Loaded Means of Participation to reduce choppy time Welcome to the Tips for Teachers Newsletter. Each Monday an email will arrive in your inbox with a tip that you might like to try out during the coming week. This week I wanted to share a lovely tip from Adam Boxer that has…
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How to organise the disorganised
The website Jon uses to help students get organised is Trello More videos from Jon Mumford Video transcript what i’ll say about about um this idea then is that when i was teaching a year 10 group a number of years ago what they saw with was the idea of revision and how to how…
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How to get students peer-assessing with group critique
Austin’s butterfly can be seen here More videos from Jon Mumford Video transcript okay tip number four please jump okay tip number four um is how to get them writing and peer assessing with group critique now do you remember what group critique is you know what group critique is no no you do you…
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Use D.I.R.T. as a post-assessment formative tool
More videos from Jon Mumford Video transcript okay mate tip number three please okay tip number three is um the use of debt as a post assessment formative tool and so i remember years ago and i don’t know whether you might have been at this meeting and it was a teach meet that we…
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Think creatively when attempting to improve engagement/performance of boys
Summary This YouTube video details a high school teacher’s innovative method for boosting boys’ engagement in language classes. He implemented a points-based system, “La Liga,” modeled after a football league, rewarding positive behaviors and participation to foster teamwork and competition. This approach not only improved classroom behavior but also fostered a sense of community and…
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Consider the impact of audio feedback
The website Jon uses for audio feedback is Qwiqr More videos from Jon Mumford Video transcript hey let’s dive in with tip number one what you got for us well being being a languages teacher um one thing that i thought was really worth sort of delving into was audio feedback so my first tip…
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Jon Mumford
This episode of the Tips for Teachers podcast is proudly supported by Arc MathsYou can download an mp3 of the podcast here. Jon Mumford’s tips: Consider the impact of audio feedback (04:57) Think creatively when attempting to improve engagement/performance of boys (22:06) Use D.I.R.T. as a post-assessment formative tool (44:11) How to get students peer assessing with…
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Beware of seductive details
More tips from Craig Barton Video transcript hello i’m craig barton and welcome to the tips for teachers video now there’s a principle from the cognitive theory of multimedia learning called the coherence principle and it states this people learn more deeply when extraneous material is excluded rather than included now that may seem like…
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Don’t ask students to listen and read simultaneously
More tips from Craig Barton Video transcript hello i’m craig barton and welcome to another tips for teachers video now we’ve spoken about the split attention effect in previous videos it’s the notion that if students have to split their attention between two different modes of information it can be quite cognitively demanding and difficult…