Author: Craig Barton

Summary This YouTube transcript details a teacher’s strategies for responsive teaching using diagnostic questions. The core idea is to react effectively to student responses, addressing misconceptions while challenging those who grasped the concept. Three scenarios are presented: most students understanding, no students understanding, and a mix of understanding levels. For the mixed scenario, the teacher…

Summary This YouTube transcript discusses responsive teaching, emphasizing the crucial, yet often overlooked, “respond” aspect. Effective responsive teaching involves not only assessing student understanding (e.g., through questioning or mini-whiteboards) but also adapting instruction based on those assessments. The speakers highlight the challenges of incorporating responsiveness, particularly with pre-planned lessons, and offer strategies like pre-requisite knowledge…

More tips from Jo Morgan Video transcript what’s your fourth tip please right tip number four use visual aids including props images and online chores to bring explanations alive oh okay right tell me more about this um so again i’m going to talk from a sort of math perspective but um i think this…

More tips from Jo Morgan Video transcript right joe tip number three please right this is very much a maths tip okay so this is use calculators from the earliest opportunity so day one of year seven get your students using calculators and i’ll tell you what let’s broaden this out a bit right as…

More tips from Jo Morgan Video transcript right joe tip number two please okay tip number two uh make sure students know whether they’re right or wrong and don’t wait until it’s too late oh i like it go tell me more okay so um again i’m gonna i’m gonna reference maths but i think…

More tips from Jo Morgan Video transcript right tip number one is um model techniques live oh okay tell me about it right now this is something that i think all teachers need to model we know that modelling is part of good teaching whatever subject um and it’s the live bit that i think…

Our confidence research paper is here More tips from Craig Barton Video transcript hello i’m craig barton and welcome to this tips for teachers video now a few years ago on my diagnostic questions website we started experimenting by adding a confidence rating to our questions so every time a student answers a question on…

Summary This YouTube video discusses improving homework effectiveness by integrating it with classwork. The speaker argues that many homework assignments lack accountability and perceived value for students. Integrating homework into classroom activities, such as “do now” exercises, increases accountability by directly assessing student understanding and demonstrating the relevance of homework to classroom learning. This approach also enhances the perceived…

More tips from Adam Boxer Video transcript right adam tip number four please all right to make good use of data compared to other subjects yeah tell me about this because again the reason i found this interesting was it’s very easy isn’t it just to get kind of in your own silo just focused…